I was gonna say, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd like for email and browsing on the road. It's reminiscent of the old Psion handhelds. Anybody know the hardware specs, and if there's any hope of cramming an actual OS on there?
1920 to SDHC is awesome and all, but I wish they would have spent more than three cents on that painfully cheap looking plastic enclosure.
From these shots, it looks almost exactly like the 720p Xacti, which, itself, looked and felt no better than the $99 Aiptek sitting next to it in Circuit City. That is to say, really really cheap. Maybe I'm spoiled from shooting pro SLR cameras, but it really bugs me to pay tall, tall dollars for gizmos with Fischer-Price build quality.
Neat! I just got done putting together a similar system, except mine's built around a Linksys NSLU, has a 200GB hard drive for tune storage, and uses a PDA as a remote control. Mine's eventually going in my car, once I get a power supply rigged up.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
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