Word: chips
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...look like an interstellar villain because I'm test-driving the Mobile Assistant IV, a "wearable computer" produced by Xybernaut, a small Fairfax company. It's hard to believe, but the doodads attached to my head and waist add up to a full-fledged PC, with 233-MHz Pentium chip, 32-MB memory and upwards of 3 GB storage. The keyboard on my wrist has 60 keys, and there is a trackball built into the central processor. Suspended in front of my left eye is a full-color vga screen scarcely larger than a postage stamp but so close...
Researchers from India to Massachusetts are exploring digital smell technology, add-ons that make your computer into a perfume factory. But the current atmosphere for virtual scents pretty much, well, smells. Greg Gretsch, a Silicon Valley veteran at blue-chip venture capital firm Sigma Partners, says, "Someone talks about digital scent technology and my bulls___ meter goes...
...another story. I'm telling you this to give you some examples of the sins of omission I have committed that, in a year or so, I will no longer be able to commit (or omit) because my mobile phone, by law, will give me away. A teensy chip in a tiny chipset somewhere in the inner workings of my cell-phone handset will alert some 27 satellites, known as the global positioning system (originally launched by and for the U.S. military to keep track of missiles and stuff), of my whereabouts. Enough of those satellites will beam back...
...Office chip overheats. Too much e-mail. My PDA says the chip has been recalled...
...long as I'm in the office I decide to have I.T. install the new Microsoft Office suite. It's a chip implanted behind my right ear. I can think through proposals and e-mails without ever having to type. (I'm not even sure I remember how to type. Schools stopped teaching it years ago after the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Association filed a class-action lawsuit...