Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes

[Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, David Presotto wrote:
> > What do you other folks with bitsies do with them?
> I find they make excellent paper weights.  They turned out less
[...]
> With a wavelan, it does make a nice remote
[...]
> It makes a usable voice communications device.  With a little
> more support it could be an IP telephone.  Someone would have

I always thought that if I shelled out the money, I'd attempt to utilize
one as a PARCTab on steroids:

http://sandbox.parc.xerox.com/parctab/

I think the big thing is to get away from the idea of using it as a
portable terminal and drag it in some new direction.  Stream audio from
all of the conference rooms and have it hop from room to room as you walk
through the building.  Email/voicemail/pager/fax redirection, at work and
at home.

I've also thought that with the limited display and input, having an IRC
infobot as an agent would be a fun interface to experiment with.  Or maybe
even Googlism ( http://googlism.com ) culling information from your
personal files.  Rather than spending your time looking for a specific
piece of information in a specific application or database and dealing
with the input misery, you just throw out a keyword and skim all the
possible responses.  Maybe a menu of recent queries.

-Jack