The Death of the Screen

So, I’m reading this article that discusses what the ideal size of a “Pocket PC” should be.  It pretty much blathers on and on about the perfect screen size for such devices.  The writer also discusses the software design philosphy of specific-task interfaces.  Simple layouts for things like getting directions or whatever.  So, bascially no matter how powerful your itty-bitty pocket computer is you’ll still be using it for really mundane things.  E-mail, of course.  Driving (or walking) directions.  Maybe a video clip or two… nothing really hardcore.

Maybe it’s simply an issue of technology; but while these devices are cool and all, when are manufacturers going to get serious about using eyewear to give us a simlated, floating display?  A little box that is all keys and no screen?  Wirelessly transmitting the video signal to a pair of glasses.  Something that would let you adjust the transparency of the display and the position in your field of vision.  You could see through it or not… depending on what sort of task you were doing (hopefully not driving at the same time, moron.)  Hell, you should certainly have little ear-buds for stereophonic sound.  Nah, forget that – I want Dolby Surround headphones, baby!

Anyway, come on you engineer-type people!  I want floating display eye-wear and freaking data gloves and I want them now!  I want a first-person shooter for it too so I can walk around town and shoot people without getting arrested.

Come on… you know you want to.