Sunday, March 07, 2010

more gadgets

I'll probably get an IPAD next month...I've already ordered a fairly nifty looking touch-screen, it should be here in a few days.

Something else I've been thinking about recently is wearable computer. There's a reason why, but I had not thought about it for several years...I was expecting to be able to have one this year, and they don't look any more available than ever, maybe less.

The key reason I'd want one is that I want it to have what's called a Remembrance Agent, although I want it to be a lot more powerful than the discussion here. At another place, read the "Future" section, and that is more what I want (although this paper is ancient). I want it to be a regular computer, too, and do other stuff like watch RSS feeds for me and notify me when there's something I might be interested in. I've done some of the software work on that already.

Looking here, you can see this guy's interests are related, but he doesn't do any maintenance on his website.

and here's an enabling device I have to get

news you can use

or not...I did not know this: (see panel two)

Comic pic

new phone coming...

into my life...probably in a week or two at the most...

the Android phone. specifically, the HTC Hero, from Sprint.

why? because you can program it in Java, and it's not restricted the way the iphone is. and that means I can write my own apps and use them without getting Apple's approval for it...yay! that means I can figure out how to move my databases onto the phone, and finally ditch the PDA.

this is looking pretty nifty at this point.