IP: New toy coming

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>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.
>
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>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.)
>
>...
>