Real-Life Pip Boy Debuts
- Scribbled on July 7th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Hardware Peripherals, Humor, RPG, WTF
Popsci has an article about the latest tech coming to the US Army: a Pip Boy!
Okay, so it’s not being called a “Pip Boy”, but according to the article, this new wrist-mounted device is frighteningly similar:
The solar-powered, bendable computer screen will allow for instant data and radio transmission, all in a half-pound unit, says David Morton, the program manager for flexible electronics at the Army Research Laboratory. The display’s thin layer of transistors sends electric signals to an e-ink screen, which converts those signals into grayscale images, similar to the way the Amazon Kindle does. Unlike the Kindle, the two-by-three-inch display can bend to fit around the user’s wrist because HP stamps the electronics and optical components onto pliable plastic. The process eliminates the need for the fragile glass backing used in the Kindle and other displays, says Carl Taussig, the director of information surfaces at HP. “You can strike these things with a mallet, and they just keep on working.”
While the Army works on a color screen, troops will test the black-and-white device and provide feedback for the final version, which should be ready for military use by 2011.
The Army doesn’t want to set the world on fire; they just want a flame in your heart.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:08 am
At least be decent enough to give ksdj1@webtv.net credit for the idea of the Pip Boy comparison.
[Actually, someone emailed me the link, and it wasn't him. - Jonah Falcon]
September 12th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Um, so N, your suggestion is that ksdj1 is the only person to have played a fallout game and therefore no one else could possibly looked at a wrist-wearable computer designed for the military and make that comparison?
How about on this different product?
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/12/military-wrist-computer-takes-over-your-forearm/