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<H2><A NAME="s14">14. PalmPilot and its clone ( IBM, HandSpring, TRG ): a new breed of wearables.</A> </H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss14.1">14.1 The palm family.</A>
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<P>The PalmPilot family and its clone is a hit among PDAs, but less known
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is the fact that it is more than a PDA it is one of the first off the shelves wearable.
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You can connect it to your cell phone,
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When on the move you may need an input device more convenient than
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Graffiti: a keyboard for example, one device exists that allow you to
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plug a PS/2 keyboard in your palm:
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Happy Hacking cradle Specially for the Palm.
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<A HREF="http://www.pfuca.com/products/hhkb/hhcindex.html">PFU</A>
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Happy Hacking sells a PS/2 adapter for the Palm, thus
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one should be able to hook any PS/2 keyboard on this device.
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It is battery ( 2 AA ) powered.
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<P>It seems that someone has managed to get a twiddler keyboard working
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with the PalmPilot.
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If you want to do land navigation it exists an electronic compass you
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can plug into your palm it is called Palm Navigator and it is
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manufactured by
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<A HREF="http://www.precisionnav.com">Precision Navigation</A>
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They even sell a weather station.
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<P>If you have more money to spend or want more precision you can
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purchase a GPS receiver called Earthmate; it is manufactured by
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<A HREF="http://www.delorme.com">Precision Navigation</A>
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Some of you may want a software only solution: this can be done.
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If you have some highly specialized needs like commuting without
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having the subway map and want a readily made solution you can use a
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program like Route Expert, I use it on a daily basis, it works great
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with Paris's subway and I will test it with Berlin's subway at the end
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of the year ( of course it exists other programs but this one is the
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one I am using ). I guess everyone can find the North using the sun and a
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wirtswatch, a PalmPilot can do it with more precision using readymade
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programs such as T.J's Sun-Compass ( once again there exists other
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programs but this one is the one I am using ).
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<P>The most important with the PalmPilot for the Linux community is the
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fact that there exists two ports of Linux for it ( DragonBall is a
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member of the 68000 family after all ). One is GPLed
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<P>You can find more information at :
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<A HREF="http://www.uclinux.org">uClinux</A><P>the second one is commercial, it is based in Korea.
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<A HREF="http://www.oski.co.kr">WindStone</A>
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it is based on uClinux and it is coming with its own GUI and
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widgets.
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<P>Thus with the next generation of Palms, the CPU speed will be twice
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today's speed, and with Linux on board we will be able to run a lot of
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software that are hardware independent and have been written for
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today's x86 Linux based wearables.
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<H2><A NAME="ss14.2">14.2 PDAs runing Linux.</A>
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<P>Samsung displayed a PDA named the
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<A HREF="http://www.sem.samsung.co.kr/eng/product/digital/pda/">Yopi </A> runing Linux.
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It is an ARMLinux based PDA, 32 MB RAM, featuring a voice recorder, mp3
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player,IrDa port, compact flash slot, a 4" color TFT and HandWritting
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Recognition, plus Serial and USB interface. Word has spread that it
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should be sold this summer but unti then wait and see.
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<P>It exists a
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<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/~imp/pdamips.html"> Mips based PDA info Center</A> This site focuses both
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on NetBSD and LinuxCE on MIPS based PDAs.
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<P>You can find some information on the
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxce.org"> LinuxCE </A> port; and you may wish to read the
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<A HREF="http://linuxce.2gn.com/faq"> LinuxCE FAQ</A>
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With theses PDAs one should be able to consider
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building a
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nice PDA based Wearable.
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