The short-range radio system is backed by companies including chipmaker Motorola and PC makers IBM and Toshiba. Reporters could use wearable systems for electronic news gathering, Newman said. Doctors could carry thousands of patient records with them as they walk around hospitals. Tiqits, without wearable accoutrements, could run projectors for traveling business presentations or hide in walls to run home-automation systems. David Rosenthal, a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, bought six Tiqits to carry to demonstrations of his new redundant data-storage system for libraries.
Keyboards are about eight times as long as the computer.
The power supply is a hefty brick. Even a mouse is as big as a Tiqit. But wait a year or two, technology experts say, and you may be playing Doom in the airport by twiddling buttons on your sleeve, watching the game through your eyeglasses. Using a prism built into the glasses, they project a 320x200 image into the viewer's line of sight. It's the smallest wearable display system currently out there.