New Ideas for future CLIEs

[a_clie_er]

I was just wondering, actually day dreaming of clie with a scanner type imput device. The application of this type of imput would be quite useful, let say if you wanted to scan a word or paragraph, just swip the scanning devices over the word and the words would be imputed automatically into your device. It has to be portable so maybe it can incorporated into a special separated stylus thats attach to the device itself. I think this would be great as an another imput device.

What ideas or hardware features would eveyone else like to see in future CLIEs or handhelds.?

[Atomic Chicken]

a_clie_er

And a scanner is different from a digital camera exactly... how?
I use my digital camera quite often to capture articles from newspapers, magazine pages, or library book pages. Works pretty well, in most cases!

Best wishes,
Bawko

[Atomic Chicken]

a_clie_er,

I think the #1 thing I would like to see in the way of future Clie hardware is ruggedization. I would like to be able to purchase a Sony Clie that would still be sleek and clean looking, but would be rubber armored and waterproof. If it could be charged using a solar panel on the back of the unit, all the better! Sort of a post-armageddon portable computer - something that Mad Max would keep his appointments with :D

Best regards,
Bawko

[a_clie_er]

Originally posted by Atomic Chicken
a_clie_er

And a scanner is different from a digital camera exactly... how?
I use my digital camera quite often to capture articles from newspapers, magazine pages, or library book pages. Works pretey well, in most cases!

Best wishes,
Bawko


What i mean is when u capture the text data you can actually edit it using something like... wordsmith or notepad. Like scan a note for a appointment and enters it into date book. So its quite different from a camera.

[Atomic Chicken]

a_clie_er,

So.... you are talking about OCR then?

Thanks,
Bawko

[mvfrancisco]

actually, there were a couple of new technologies i'm dying to see implemented in the clie.

For the first one I'm sure everyone already knows about Fuel Cells for longer life.

Then there's the tactile display that Sony developed, so you can make "buttons", etc. that you can feel on the surface. Imagine the Clie remote commander with buttons that you can feel around for:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/EF14Dh03.html

There's also the Toshiba scanner screens, where the display can double as a flatbed scanner (think business cards, etc) :

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030404S0014

Aside from those, maybe voice commands, a thumbstick, etc... the usual.

[pnorman]

How about a small accessory that will work with your present Clie? Here's one good one: http://www.cpen.com/Products/Portable/p3

It will scan a line at a time, and then OCR it into English, or other languages you may optionally install. There's also a utility that will bypass the OCR and give you the raw image (useful for copying ideographic alphabets). At a line at a time, an entire paragraph is quite practical, but a page or two would be a real strain.

It also goes nicely into my desktop via IR or serial connection. And with "Peacemaker" installed in my HP720, it works there too.

[JwY]

i use a cam to take pics of documents like atomic chicken said

[pnorman]

I also use a digi-camera for similar purposes. One time, after composing a lengthy and well-referenced email, my computer froze. I had a camera handy so I shot the screen before I restarting. It was much easier than trying to reconstruct by memory!

But OCR seems to be the point of much of this discussion, and that C-Pen (and another similar product) does that very nicely. And as needed, bi-lingual OCR too. Reading & OCR'ing lines off phone-books, business cards (particularly lengthy and error-prone URLs ) etc., is what comes to mind. There's even a utility that'll read most of the common bar-codes.

[Unregistered]

Voice recognition! I am lazy

[skorpiankh]

I would love a full size virtual keyboard built in to the unit. Check out the idea here http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/rob_keyboard.html