{"id":208,"date":"2004-11-03T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T15:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/208"},"modified":"2004-11-03T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T15:02:56","slug":"wearable-on-an-ipaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/208","title":{"rendered":"Wearable on an iPaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<p>Every year I think it&#8217;ll finally be the year we wearables folk can swap out our custom hardware for an off-the-shelf palmtop with a head-mounted display and one-handed keyboard connected to it, and every year it&#8217;s just not quite there. Looks like we&#8217;re <em>finally<\/em> getting there: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/home\/kent\/\">Kent Lyons<\/a> from Georgia Tech has now swapped out his CharmIT-PRO for an iPaq.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not quite plug-and-play: he had to hack the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handykey.com\/\">Twiddler-1<\/a> (the serial-port one, not the current PS\/2 version) with a different power connector, and the CF-IO card he&#8217;s using to connect the iPaq to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microopticalcorp.com\/Products\/video.html#CV3\">Microoptical display<\/a> has a fairly limited bandwidth, so he had to hack his X server to blit out just the windows changes to the active window. Oh yeah, and he wrote a new Twiddler driver for the iPaq.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s promised to put up a how-to guide on the Web soon \u2014 I plan to keep bugging him till he does :).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-1.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-2.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-3.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-4.jpg\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<p>Every year I think it&#8217;ll finally be the year we wearables folk can swap out our custom hardware for an off-the-shelf palmtop with a head-mounted display and one-handed keyboard connected to it, and every year it&#8217;s just not quite there. Looks like we&#8217;re <em>finally<\/em> getting there: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/home\/kent\/\">Kent Lyons<\/a> from Georgia Tech has now swapped out his CharmIT-PRO for an iPaq.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not quite plug-and-play: he had to hack the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handykey.com\/\">Twiddler-1<\/a> (the serial-port one, not the current PS\/2 version) with a different power connector, and the CF-IO card he&#8217;s using to connect the iPaq to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microopticalcorp.com\/Products\/video.html#CV3\">Microoptical display<\/a> has a fairly limited bandwidth, so he had to hack his X server to blit out just the windows changes to the active window. Oh yeah, and he wrote a new Twiddler driver for the iPaq.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s promised to put up a how-to guide on the Web soon \u2014 I plan to keep bugging him till he does :).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-1.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-2.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-3.jpg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"60%\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/supplemental\/208\/kent-4.jpg\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearable-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}