On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:24:11PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > Recalling the heritage of the Ben as an electronic dictionary... > > http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Ben_proprietary_sw.jpg > > ...I was intrigued to encounter the following product: > > http://shop.telegraph.co.uk/v8087 > > [...] > There's a selection of these kinds of things here: > > http://www.franklin.com/dictionaries?limit=30 > > Some models of dictionaries and translators have colour screens and possibly > approximate to the Ben a bit more closely.
I always would have liked a Nanonote with the User-HW-interface (that is, case, screen, keyboard) of, for example: http://www.besta.com.sg/products/CD739S.html These are the nicest small clamshells I have seen so far, and they come at prices >$400, but if you consider that that is also the price of the OpenPandora, there might actually be quite a few geeks out there willing to pay that --- combining the ideological aspects of the Ben with a machine that would be actually and conveniently useful to a wider user base. (The newer product http://www.besta.com.sg/products/CD1088S.htm actually runs Android 2.3 and has its screen size advertised as 800x480; for the CD739S they only say ``5in screen with 16:9 ratio'' but don't mention the pixels --- nowadays I would hope for at least 1028 x 600...) Wolfram _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
