MK> Hey Raymond!

 MK> Jan 03 19:34 05, Raymond Yates wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RY>> If, (and they did) they can put a working computer ina properly
 RY>> balanced
 RY>> surfboard, that recieves wireless mail while on the ocean (in a
 RY>> hot spot), putting it in a boat would be fairly easy..

 MK> Is there a big demand for such a thing where you are?  I never ran
 MK> into or heard about any surfers who complained about the lack of email
 MK> capabilties of their surfboards.  ;-)

Where I live, on the East Coast, the boards are a lot smaller, and there's no
demand for computerised ones.. this is a novelty item at the moment, as far as
I can tell.

 MK> Onboard computers aren't a new thing.  The nice thing abbout some of
 MK> the boards I have seen lately is the low power consumption and higher
 MK> speeds of some of the fanless cpu's.  Also some very nice DC/DC power
 MK> supplies are being manufactured locally which is nice.  Tad pricey but
 MK> for field work those are the types of things that are required and not
 MK> those cheap handheld thingies that business types seem to think are
 MK> good.  I've seen people try to get away with that sort of thing and
 MK> fail.

 RY>> http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/pressroom/emea/eng/150308.htm

 MK> IBM made a computer wristwatch years ago.  No big demand for those
 MK> either.

If they ever get voice recognition software up to speed, that all could
change..

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