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Phillyblast
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 09:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Saw this in the NYT this morning (free registration required)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/technology/08display.html
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Mikej
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 09:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That "free" registration required salary range, occupation, job title, zip code, and a bunch of other data collection bits including an email address (good thing they didn't verify the email address before giving access).

quote:

Heads-Up Displays Move From Cockpits to Cyclists' Helmets
By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: December 8, 2003


AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 - Fighter pilots have long been able to view flight data projected onto jet windshields within their line of sight. Soon recreational motorcyclists and bicyclists will be able to take advantage of that technology.

Motion Research, a Seattle company founded in 1993 by a former racecar driver, Dominic Dobson, said that next spring it would begin selling an inexpensive information display system to be attached to a motorcycle helmet.



There's more to the article.
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Lake_bueller
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 09:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sounds like a great idea. I'd like to see a working sample. Maybe in time for the '05 IMS shows.
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Bomber
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 09:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

there's a company that's been selling wireless headsup displays (If you can call one red LED a display)for radar detectors for at aleast a year now (I can remember seeing it for that long, at any rate)

I like the idea . . . . alot . . . . but admit I wonder about the form factor of the displayed data (digital = yck, analog = good, but signal intensive)
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M1combat
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

http://www.motionresearch.com/products.htm
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Phillyblast
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 10:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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