That could break Synaptics into the market for so-called resistive screens, like the face of a handheld computer.
The images can be processed in a handheld computer attached to the sunglasses or on a conventional home computer.
Handheld computer users want access to their corporate e-mail, applications and databases, she says, and cellular networks provide near-ubiquitous connectivity.
Watchmaker Fossil thinks your handheld computer is lonely and needs a friend.
Still, by all appearances, Tapwave's Zodiac has the words "handheld hit" written all over it, which is something we've never said about any single handheld computer.
FedEx generally uses a GPRS cellular modem to upload data from a courier's handheld computer to the company's servers, allowing it to keep up-to-the-minute tracking information.
Have you noticed that it's just about every five or six months that another rumor surfaces about how Apple is definitely working on some sort of handheld computer?
While McAfee's software may keep viruses from being passed between a handheld computer and corporate network, it doesn't prevent viruses from being delivered wirelessly to the PDA in the first place.
Through a UPS arrangement with 3Com, he can click on the UPS shield on the latest Palm VII handheld computer, enter a UPS tracking number and immediately learn the whereabouts of his goods.
But Friend envisions a time when the casing of a handheld computer or telephone will have one organic polymer that soaks up a room's light and uses it to juice a battery, which then powers one of his hyperefficient OLED screens.
Concocting an "in-car gaming system" that utilizes a GPS receiver, handheld computer, headphones, and a laptop in the trunk of the whip, the Backseat Playground would eventually turn real world "sights, attractions, and locations" into in-game characters and events for the lucky passenger(s).
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This view, advanced by groups as diverse as Symbian (a consortium of telecoms-equipment firms and Psion, a handheld-computer maker) and Microsoft, sounds fairly plausible.
The handheld e-mailing computer quickly became the must-have gadget for executives, consultants and everyone on Wall Street.
Greg says, just imagine 20 megabits-per-second feeding into your computer or handheld.
Advocates have traditionally countered that pen interfaces can be operated using one hand, freeing the other one to cradle the computer or hold the handheld.
They include mobile phones, MP3 players, computer chips, hard drives, handheld computers, games consoles and satellite navigation equipment.
But Gilder says all of the components and companies are now in place to make the revolutionary step into the age of the "teleputer, " or a handheld device that's a fully functioning personal computer, digital video camera, telephone, MP3 player and video player.
About a third would be at least somewhat likely to take library classes on how to download e-books onto handheld devices (including smartphones), or classes on how to use an e-reader or tablet computer.
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