Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display

nerdyH writes "A new Linux-based portable media player (PMP) features an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution. Dreamax's Indicube i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting two meters away from a 54-inch screen, the vendor claims. It uses an 0.44-inch eMagin OLED display, claimed to offer the smallest pixel pitch in the industry."

Are they selling these separately?

[m50d]

I've wanted something like this to use with my PDA for some time.

Target audience

[Scutter]

How come these designers never realize that many of their target audience have poor eyesight? These types of things never fit right over glasses.

Mobile computing?

[SharpFang]

One thing I missed on the feature list: bluetooth.

Combine this with one-handed chording keyboard [demon.co.uk], maybe a camera or just a hole to look through (or allow one-eye option) and some wireless connectivity (say, your mobile phone as GPRS modem), and you have a lightweight wearable computer.

bonus for whoever comes up with a handy wearable cursor control device - kinda trackpoint on the keyboard would do, but they are quite obnoxious.

Re:Target audience

[Anonymous Cowpat]

well, if the screen is wholly over one eye (or could be moved as such) then a relevant lens could be put in position over the other eye. The screen could then be set to black when not in use (forcing you to use the uncovered eye) OR the gizmo could acquire a small camera to provide the relevant image on the screen (of course the camera could be anywhere, such as behind you, or be infrared-sensitive for night-vision, or both) the display could then provide extra information such as the temperature, air pressure, terrorist threat-level, a todo list or, if you happen to be a terminator, a selection of the pictures of the people that you have to kill. If you're short sighted then they'll be close enough to need no correction and if you're long sighted then more fool you (or you could wear a contact lens).
You'd still need to take them off to drive, of course.
Now I think of it, you could just wear contact lenses. Except that you're probably a geek who's too cowardly to try and poke himself in the eye - I certainly am.

Re:First Video To Watch On It....

[SoundGuyNoise]

Shouldn't it be Brainstorm [imdb.com] instead?

Re:... finest pixel pitch may not be good

[hackerjoe]

Google calculator says:

(0.44 inches) / 800 = 13.97 microns

Still an order of magnitude or so away, but wow, that's a lot closer than I thought..

Re:Mobile computing?

[russ1337]

for whoever comes up with a handy wearable cursor control device

You mean some kind of "a free-floating, glowing, shifting polyhedron-shaped, mote of energy which could three-dimensionally "draw" and generate physical objects as they are needed, generally becoming the object in the process." like the one here? [wikipedia.org]

Re:Target audience

[veganboyjosh]

Sweet. I've always wanted to walk around in the third person.

even better, you could switch between several vantage points, much like just about every car racing video game i've seen in the last 10 years. just choose whether you want bird's eye view, medium view, in the driver's seat, on the hood of the car, etc...

Wii head tracking + HUD = Fun

[thommo101]

When I saw this all I could think of is Johnny Lee's Wii-mote head tracking combined for some surely immersive games! And all on a shoestring budget!