Future PDA

LarryNJ · 05-09-04, 03:45 PM

How Popular Science see's the future PDA. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/compute...3615-2,00.html

gsteinb88 · 05-09-04, 05:53 PM

I saw this at the airport a few weeks ago (stuck there for 6.5 hours uuuuugh) and thought it was pretty nifty. I think they mentioned something about battery life being one of the restricitons in there (i think it was that one, i read just about every article in every tech magazine...including pocket pc mag where aximsite was listed!) and this really made a lot of sense to me. I mean, the technology for things like a few gig microdrive in a ppc is there, just not the battery life.
-g

LarryNJ · 05-09-04, 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by gsteinb88
I think they mentioned something about battery life being one of the restricitons in there
-g

That seems to be the biggest hurdle. You'd think it wouldn't be that difficult, but i guess it is. They are saying about another 5 years.

"Battery Blues
Whatever the super PDA looks like by 2010, everything in it will be smaller, faster and stronger. Everything, that is, but the battery. It'll be incrementally better than today's standard battery. You'll have to wait another five years for a real pocket-size power revolution. That's when membrane technology should increase the surface-area-to-volume ratio of fuel cells enough to make them practical for mobile use. And better fuel-flow management will help solve one of fuel cells' most stubborn problems: handling variable power demands. Another possible solution is combining a fuel cell with a battery. The battery would supply power to the device, while the fuel cell would keep the battery juiced. "

05-09-04, 08:17 PM

That looks really cool. Not that far off either. There already is a laser keyboard and i saw somewhere that "scroll" type screen. (b&w only i believe so far)

kcronister1 · 05-27-04, 10:01 AM

Finally got around to looking at this. Looks very interesting.