I guess I have to hold up this "letter" sized paper display and try to
write on it at the same time.
I'll believe it when I see it. I saw the article on this topic in MIT Tech
review a few months ago, but they were saying that this technology is
years ahead. In the meantime, I will keep on using my Pilot (oops Palm).
Bora
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
the hardware problem is the eyes and the hands. i use a pda because i can
put it in my hip pocket. that's just not going to happen with a screen that
half-size or full-size.
You're thinking too traditionally. Displays will decouple from the
processor (think Bluetooth). The "CPU" will holster on your belt,
and the A4 sized thin-film display will fold up to fit in your pocket.
And pixel density will increase to approach that of paper. (At 300 DPI
you can shrink the font enough to get the better part of a 60x72 character
page onto even todays sized PDA displays if you display in landscape.)
Or maybe the technology will be something else. The point is that
the display technology _will_ be there, and it will be there soon.
(Soon enough that current PDA limitations aren't a good enough
justification - IMO - for the sort of changes we're talking about
making.)
--lyndon