Just came back from a product demo (National Instrument - Labview) and was thinking of a new application for a wearable, Basicly they use software to emulate Lab equipment, Function Generators, Oscilloscopes, DMM's you name it. now imagine some guy in the field, hanging by a rope on a 40 foot pole, trying to get a reading on the signal on the wire (yes, I am making up an extreme case here), installing of hauling up an oscilloscope with him (yes I know Fluke makes some cool small ones), you can haul some probes out of your pouch, snap them onto the connector on your vest, flip your HUD over one eye and start probing away... And if you didn't want to go full hog on this, I know there are some apps for linux that basicly do the same thing except they use the sound card as input. Just image, a full spectrum analyzer/oscilloscope always with you everywhere you go. Some hams I know would have wet dreams thinking about the next field day.. Though the cheap solution of a sound card wouldn't handle radio freq's. now for the bad part - win95 is the only supported i386 platform, they do support SunOS and solaris on SPARC's, but not solarisx86 (don't even think about linux/freeBSD), to their credit, they have a 1 megasample/second PCMCIA card though. I guess this would be for a more commercial venture (hmm money making oppurtunity here anyone?, Want to sell a complete system to companies with field engineers?) > ---------- >
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