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Here's what all the fashionable soldiers will be wearing on battlefields soon, the Parvus ZYPAD WL 1000, a wrist-wearable wireless computer that the company rolled out at the Armed Forces Communication Electronics Association's TechNet 2006 International Conference. It uses a combination of WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS for location and communication, and can run either Linux or Windows CE. It has a 3.5" touchscreen LCD and has a battery life of eight hours.
Since this is a device that's intended for classified military deployment, its exact uses are rather murky, but one of its key capabilities is its accelerometer that shows if a soldier is still moving, or is motionless and injured. It can then be programmed to transmit a locator beacon for specified amount of time, allowing medics to pinpoint the location of the fallen soldier. From the looks of this picture, they're going to need to make that screen brighter if the WL 1000 is going to be useful in the desert, or in the fog of war.
Zypad WL 1000 Wrist Wearable Wireless Computer with GPS [Navigadget]
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I disagree, if you're doing covert ops, it's probably at night, and the last thing you want is a nice bright flashlight strapped to your wrist.
cool and all, but i think these days it's handier to have everything in its most convenient place. I can't see looking down at one's wrist as being a practical thing to do, especially on a battlefield. Heads-Up display would make so much more sense, as well as some kind of gesture recognition with some kind of messed up gloves or something. basically what i'm saying is that this would seem cool and useful and ultrahigh tech if we were still in 1995. i thought we were way past the centralized computer system for tactical situations stage
Does it come with the Predator style nuke too?
I'm sure if they used a transflective screen (is that the word) it's fine in the sunlight. Last WinCE PDA I had was a Compaq 1910 and the screen was great in the sunlight and didn't draw much power without the backlight. Heads-up is great in some applications, but not for every kind of data. You don't want to clutter the field of vision for a grunt.
It looks like that thing Leila wears on her wrist in Futurama.
You can also use it to recall the Planet Express Ship at any time.
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