IP: New toy coming

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:40:34 +0000
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: New toy coming
>
> Dave,
>         Apologies if you've already seen this on RCFoC.
>
>         Denis.
>
>
>
> It weighs four ounces, is about 5 by 3 inches in size, contains a QWERTY
> keyboard and LCD display, and holds half a megabyte of memory.  It can
> connect
> to a PC to exchange files and download Email, and it contains a 900 MHz
> wireless transceiver that allows IMing (Instant Messaging) with others
> within about
> 300 feet.  If you scatter a bunch of these devices around an area they
> expand the IM reach by automatically acting as relay points for devices
> farther away.
>
> It supports wireless interactive gaming.  It contains a To-Do list, phone
> book, Spanish/English dictionary, Music Composer, calculator, alarm clock,
> and
> more, and it will scan the profiles of other devices in the area, notifying
> you with a vibrating alert when someone that interests you approaches.  In
> the future,
> it will also play MP3 music files.
>
> Sounds like this might be the next high-end Palm Pilot or Windows CE
> organizer, but it's not.  It's a new toy.
>
> It's Cybiko, from a company of the same name
> (http://www.cybiko.com/what.html), and this translucent, wavy-looking
> handheld "toy" is destined to hit the
> streets in March for $149, targeted at the 10 to 17 year old crowd (so,
> teachers, just imagine a school populated with a swarm of these devices.)
>
> ...