Eurotech’s wrist worn PC
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)