About 8-10 years ago, I read about plasma microprocessor that required not power source that was the size of a human hair and created and supplied its own source of power and was a microprocessor so fast it was immesurable to calculate. This was in a WIRED magazine I think, could have been SCIENCE DIGEST. This was not fantasy as it had already been developed. It was to revolutionize the computer industry.
The glasses thing mentioned in the article, also old news. This has supposedly been developed and tested in the military for perhaps the past 5-7 years. One thing discovered was that even though it had it purpose, it was almost information overload for the user. Too much to look at, too much visual stimulation, too much to take in and comprehend. It was almost like taking all the gauges out of the cockpit and putting them on eyewear.
The internet and computers are destined to change and I hope theY do.
Imagine a personal computer the size of your mobile phone, capable of doing everything your current laptop does, as well as making calls, taking photos and playing your music and videos.
Sounds like still a .mobi size format to me for viewing. And I think .mobi is essentially just that...a formattable size to accomodate a small viewing area.
Carmi Levy says the technological roadmap will eventually lead to flexible, thin film batteries that use a variety of compounds to create much better energy density. But it will take at least five years for these products to become available, and will require fundamental redesign of our mobiles and laptops. "Every piece of circuitry must be fully re-engineered," he says. "It is a [huge] feat to switch over to this."
I guess we can read anything into anything, but this article seems to be more focused on the battery issue more than anything.
And once that is downsized, then everything should follow suit in downsizing along with it. Again, what's the point of reference regarding .mobi if everything thus becomes more "mobile"?
Device manufacturers are also taking action, moving away from a fixation with creating faster and more powerful gadgets to making sure they can last longer on a single charge. But battery advocates doubt that they will keep up with the ever-growing demands for mobile power
Mobile power...laptops, PDA, cell phone. This article deals primarily on how to meet the demands of these portable devices without sacrificing power but at the same time doing something about the hazards of batteries.
This article in my opinion is about the demise and downsizing of .batt(ery) rather than the demise and downsizing of .mobi(le).
