Eurotech's wrist worn PC

Filed in archive Products on June 20, 2006

The lightweight PC I wrote about some weeks ago has a price now: 2500,- US$. The technology is demoed at military tech conference and chances are good that the product will be used in the army.

There's a Navy program that calls for such devices in the thousands of units.

But there are other applications too:

The device targets emergency search-and-rescue, healthcare, homeland security, maintenance, law enforcement, logicstics, transportation, and defense applications.

Some of the feature we didn't knew about before:

Tilt and dead reckoning system -- can determine if a user is motionless or has fallen down, and initiate radiosonde beacon

via Linuxdevices (read on for a lot of technical details)