wristwatch: a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist
For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer. The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the Sun.
A watch worn on a strap around the wrist
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program
(computing) computer science: the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
a machine for performing calculations automatically
calculator: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
A person who makes calculations, esp. with a calculating machine
Wrist Computer Concept Question
Those of you who have read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy will know what I mean when I say wristpad.
For those who don't, a wristpad is a wrist-worn computer formfactor.
This design consists fo a combination flexible touchscreen/battery (each exist), and a small control module containing the processors, a battery, a small camera, a laser pointer, and a few white LEDs. The display would wrap around most of the wrist, clasping on the side farthest from the control module. The computer would be ambidextrous, displaying the watch on one side fo the wrist, and other information on the other. The processor would not have to be very powerful, because only a few applications could run on such a limited screen resolution. It could, however, be used as a music player, supporting mp3, wav, aac, ogg, wma, and flac. Audible, too, probably. The device could aso serve as a bluetooth extension to a phone, or mabye have a phonen built in. Either way, it could use a cellular connection to grab and display information like stocks, weather, launch time, maybe RSS. Full-page web browsing is a definite nogo. Leave that to your lectern.
Input would be through the touchscreen and mabye the bezels around the ends of the control package. Also probably a button at the non-camera/light end of the control module, but that might be where the earbuds enter.
Hmm. Designing Human Interface Devices is hard.