From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Johnson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes In-Reply-To: <16e35360c3dcabe9826a019f1e209155@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:06:32 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c56fb58c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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