Section: Other Gadgets
The all-in-one card computer... for 2006? 
Saturday December 31, 2005 (06:09 PM)By: BobR
There's an article about an "all-in-one card" that's been getting a lot of buzz recently. Unfortunately, it's just the article is getting the buzz, not the card. Supposedly that concept handheld computer will be able to replace pdas, cell phones and mp3 players. And next year, no less. Chandan's writeup is definitely an attention getter, even if the idea is not quite new.Basically, he describes thin client computing with a small card whose front surface is completely an e-ink type of display. Sort of a Star Trek tablet taken to the extreme. We've talked about that before, and I'm sure that it will be discussed even more as the technology advances to make it feasible.
There's really not a lot to argue about except for the claim that it can be done in 2006. Such a small device, a dreamy display, no place for the battery or fuel cell, no place for the wireless transmitter and antenna, etc etc. Forget all-in-one cards... we would be delighted even to get a display like that in 2006 for an ebook reader!
But as a discussion piece to give a concept of what may be to come, I think he's done a very good job. And if he knows how to really make it feasible now, then he could turn the industry upside down in a year. Personally, I'm a skeptic, but you can read the entire writeup here.
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