Why has no one integrated the PDA, cameraphone, MP3 player, and PSP-like unit, into a wearable unit. Bear with me here. A black box, with maybe a a few ports. SD/ compact flash unit, 40 gig microdrive, USB port.
The visual interface would be a wireless transparent HUD that goes over your non-dominant eye that communicates with the Black Box by either ultrawide band or super bluetooth. The HUD has a pupil tracker like some fancy camcorders to enable some basic controls. Earbuds provide sound and a microphone boom ala Jabra provide another layer of voice activated control.
On one side of the headset a digital camera lens coaxial with the wearers eyes... point and shoot low quality images. Supplemental controls could be via either a gyroscopic mouse (basically a mouse that works in the air) or digital gloves that pick up the motions of the fingers overlayed onto a QWERTY keyboard visible only to the wearer of the HUD.
Communication by the rest of the world by highspeed Wi-Fi or WiMax. Voice calls will be handled by VoIP.
Forgive me if this is just a super geek fantasy, but who else would pay for a one thousand dollar unit that replaced their iPod, blackberry, cellphone, PDA, PSP, and a host of other gizmos. Maybe the technology to integrate all of these currently existing technologies is a few years away from making a cheap functional unit, but surely some are on the blackboard right?
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