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Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: Streamline on December 17, 2004, 12:40:08 pm: http://www.iisvr.com/products_mobility_Main.html (http://www.iisvr.com/products_mobility_Main.html)

Would any of you guys be interested in something along this line? We are speaking with them directly about this for zaurus accessories and they say they will have linux drivers available first quarter of next year. My question is do many of you have a need for something along these lines for us to pursue
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: deniscallies on December 17, 2004, 12:53:14 pm: THAT looks great!

Do you know how much it will cost?

Bye Denis
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: Streamline on December 17, 2004, 12:56:51 pm: I am getting a price list on it today just want to see the response before we agree to carrying these we are trying to concentrate on Zaurus accessories at the moment wanna find as many operational accessories to help expand the uses of the zaurus line.
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: ScottYelich on December 17, 2004, 01:59:09 pm: it looks interesting, but I think I'd have to try one to see if I liked it and then
I'd have to compare with the price to see if it was worth it.

Scott
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: SNi on December 17, 2004, 02:17:45 pm: Quote
http://www.iisvr.com/products_mobility_Main.html (http://www.iisvr.com/products_mobility_Main.html)

Would any of you guys be interested in something along this line? We are speaking with them directly about this for zaurus accessories and they say they will have linux drivers available first quarter of next year. My question is do many of you have a need for something along these lines for us to pursue
I e-mailed them 3 weeks ago asking about the Linux drivers, have never heard back..
SNi
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: Streamline on December 17, 2004, 02:18:19 pm: I will see about getting a prototype and post some pics in the near future.

Yea SNI I called them today they tell me first quarter of next year but when has a date ever been correct
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: wmadan on December 17, 2004, 03:00:09 pm: Their web site says it connects to a compact flash card, so I guess you couldn't use wifi with it then.
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: bgsfh on December 17, 2004, 03:20:15 pm: WoW, I have been wanting something like that since, since, well, the first Bush presedency. Personally, I don't have a real need for it, but i would get it for the racoon factor. I probably wouldn't be able to spend more than a couple of hundred dollars on it 'thou.
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: ran on December 17, 2004, 07:07:46 pm: Quote
Yea SNI I called them today they tell me first quarter of next year
One way to tell how likely they are to meet the dealine is to ask the musical question: "Is someone already working on the driver?". If so, the odds are much better than they would be if it were just on a "To do" list.

Price is going to be a huge factor, since this is more "toy" than "tool" for most of us. It's almost not worth bothering to ask about interest until you have a dollar amount to include in the question.

Ran
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: dz on December 17, 2004, 09:07:42 pm: As awesome as that looks, I probably would not get it if it connected into compact flash. My compact flash slot is used by many other things and this would be handy for watching movies, browsing the web with, or being able to read the terminal easier when I SSH into other computers. Unfortunately, for all those things, the compact flash slow requires other devices in it.

As well, it says it has no external power supply, so I wonder how much it'd draw from the battery.

Regardless, looks very awesome and if they could figure out some other input method (Sharp serial port?) I'd purchase.
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: ev1l on December 17, 2004, 11:37:10 pm: Streamline, I'd really ask to give it a try before stocking it, or investing any kind of time/money into it.
Most imaging head-strapped device offer poor performance, and you usually end up with a splinting headache after a couple of hours of use.
See the article here (http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=698)
More:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/8547656110143977/ (http://www.engadget.com/entry/8547656110143977/)
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1524298107675165/ (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1524298107675165/) (this looks like it's yours)
http://www.engadget.com/entry/5066419296452720/ (http://www.engadget.com/entry/5066419296452720/)

I'm convinced those devices need to improve by the same order portable computers improved in the past 15 years or so. (from a 50 pounds steel case with a handle to a 2 pounds carbon shelled high performance machine)
Title: Interesting Or No?
Post by: Streamline on December 18, 2004, 08:27:55 am: Thank you for your info here ev1 our plan has been to get a prototype of this and see where it takes us.