From: Doug Sutherland (wearable_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2002-02-10 04:35:54
sade made wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to watch the road instead of
> that excellent hanDsprinG visor lcd screen<;-P> ...
Nah, that would be boring. But seriously the idea here
is continuous monitoring/recording, results to be looked
at later. I have seen a number of such mobile biofeedback
recorders designed as part of university projects and
other research projects. As an aside, this is kind of
humorous, but I was filmed by a Danish TV station called
TV2 Zulu, driving a car with a microdisplay over one eye
and typing on a single handed keyboard (while driving!).
This is hardly something safe, but they wanted it for
effect, and it was done in a safe place where I couldn't
risk anyone's life. That was shown on a TV show called
Raketfart (which translates to "space travel") in
Copenhnagen Denmark last year (weekly primetime series).
> That is what I got for my project, ( for which I am
> writing my own code, so I do not have to be bogged
> down by the desktop lx/os-type paradigms taht usually
> slow and unnecessarily could complicate things as well
Sure you can go full custom and make something very
small and low-power, BUT there is avantages to going
with a linux-based platform, primarily you have lots
of existing software you can use. My 200hz x86 boards
are 4x6 inches, you can now get the same in 4x4 inches.
Even smaller, though slower, are DIMM-PC modules and
there are also DIMM sized modules running StrongArm
called Trizeps. The point of my mobile systems are
not to be specific-function devices, they are intended
to replace desktops and laptops, and they do.
> and as it seems that most people need something
> different, they all may as well go ahead and do
> their own different stuffs.
Agreed. I'm not saying that this embedded stuff
should be part of this project. All I am saying
is that my goal is to replace the "PC" part of
OpenEEG with an embedded PC (initially) then
eventually move to StrongArm for power reasons.
Lots of mobile computing info on my web site:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wearable/
Namaste,
Doug
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