5 PEN PC TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION
Look closely and guess what they could be....

ARE THEY PENS WITH CAMERAS?

P-ISM (Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package), which is nothing but the new discovery, which is under developing, stage by NEC Corporation. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function. P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function.

This personal gadget in a minimalist pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing. It is shown below

A tablet personal computer (tablet PC) is a portable personal computer equipped with a touch screen as a primary input device and designed to be operated and owned by an individual. The term was made popular as a concept presented by Microsoft in 2001,but tablet PCs now refer to any tablet-sized personal computer, even if it's not using Windows but another PC operating system. Tablets may use virtual keyboards and handwriting

recognition for text input through the touch screen. All tablet personal computers have a wireless adapter for Internet and local network connection. Software applications for tablet PCs include office suites, web browsers, games and a variety of applications. However, since portable computer hardware

components are low powered, demanding PC applications may not provide an ideal experience to the user

History of tablet computers

The following timeline list gives some of the highlights of this history: Before 1950 y y y 1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting. 1915: U.S. Patent on handwriting recognition user interface with a stylus. 1942: U.S. Patent on touchscreen for handwriting input. 1945: Vannevar Bush proposes the Memex, a data archiving device including handwriting input, in an essay As We May Think.

1950s y Tom Dimond demonstrates the Styalator electronic tablet with pen for computer input and software for recognition of handwritten text in real-time.

Early 1960s y RAND Tablet invented.The RAND Tablet is better known than the Styalator, but was invented later.

Late 1960s y Alan Kay of Xerox PARC proposed a notebook computer, optionally using pen input, called the Dynabook: however the device is never constructed or implemented with pen input. 1966 y In the science fiction television series Star Trek, crew members carry large, wedgeshaped electronic clipboards, operated through the use of a stylus.

1982 y y Pencept of Waltham, Massachusetts markets a general-purpose computer terminal using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse. Cadre System markets the Inforite point-of-sale terminal using handwriting recognition and a small electronic tablet and pen.

1985 y Pencept and CIC both offer PC computers for the consumer market using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse. Operating system is MSDOS.

1989 y The first commercially available tablet-type portable computer was the GRiDPad from GRiD Systems released in September. The GridPad was manufactured by Samsung,modified from the Samsung PenMaster which never made it to commercial distribution. Its operating system was based on MS-DOS. Wang Laboratories introduces Freestyle. Freestyle was an application that would do a screen capture from an MS-DOS application, and let the user add voice and handwriting annotations. It was a sophisticated predecessor to later note-taking applications for systems like the Tablet PC. The operating system was MS-DOS In partnership with Fujitsu, the Poqet Computer Corporation announced the arrival of the Poqet PC.

1991 y y The Momenta Pentop was released. GO Corporation announced a dedicated operating system, called Pen Point OS, featuring control of the operating system desktop via handwritten gesture shapes.Gestures included "flick" gestures in different directions, check-marks, crossouts, pig-tails, and circular shapes, among others. NCR released model 3125 pen computer running MS-DOS, Penpoint OS or Pen Windows.

The Apple Newton entered development; although it ultimately became a PDA, its original concept (which called for a larger screen and greater sketching capabilities) resembled the hardware of a Tablet PC.

1992 y y GO Corporation shipped the PenPoint OS for general availability and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen computer (the first IBM model named "ThinkPad") in April. Microsoft releases Windows for Pen Computing as a response to the PenPoint OS by GO Corporation.

1993 y y y y y Fujitsu releases the Poqet PC the first pen tablet to use an integrated wireless LAN[ Apple Computer announces the Newton PDA, also known as the Apple MessagePad, which includes handwriting recognition with a stylus. The IBM releases the ThinkPad, IBM's first commercialized portable tablet computer product available to the consumer market, as the IBM ThinkPad 750P and 360P AT&T introduced the EO Personal Communicator combining Pen Point with wireless communications. BellSouth released the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, an analog cell phone using a touch-screen and display. It did not include handwriting recognition, but did permit users to write messages and send them as faxes on the analog cellphone network, and included PDA and Email features.

1999 y 2000 y Pace Blade develops the first device that meets the Microsoft's Tablet PC standard and received the "Best Hardware" award at VAR Vision 2000 The "QBE" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies wins Comdex Best of Show.

The "QBE Vivo" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies ties for Comdex Best of Show.

2001 y Bill Gates of Microsoft demonstrates the first public prototype of a Tablet PC (defined by Microsoft as a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" operating system) at Comdex.

2003 y y PaceBlade receives the "Innovation des Jahres 2002/2003" award for

the PaceBook Tablet PC from PC Professionell Magazine at the Cebit Fingerworks develops the touch technology and touch gestures later used in the Apple iPhone.

2006 y y y Samsung introduces the Samsung Q1 UMPC. Windows Vista released for general availability. Vista included the functionality of the special Tablet PC edition of Windows XP. On Disney Channel Original Movie, Read It and Weep, Jamie uses a Tablet PC for her journal.

2007 y Axiotron introduces Modbook, the first (and only) tablet computer based on Mac hardware and Mac OS X at Macworld.

2008 y In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning user interfaces for pen computer operating systems. Microsoft's acquisition of the technology is the subject of a separate lawsuit.

HP releases the second Multi-Touch capable tablet: the HP TouchSmart tx2 series.

2009 y Asus announces a tablet net book, the EEE PC T91 and T91MT, the latter which features a multi-touch screen. Always Innovating announced a new tablet net book with an ARM CPU. Motion Computing launched the J3400.

y y 2010 y Mobile Demand launches the xTablet T7000 Rugged Tablet PC which runs a full Windows OS and features include an integrated numeric keypad, bar code scanner, credit card reader, etc. y Apple unveils the iPad, running Apple iOS. y Quaduro Systems unveils the 10" QuadPad 3G Plus, a 900 gram Microsoft Windows based 3G tablet PC with 8 hours of battery life. y Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab, running Google Android. y bModo launches the bModo12 which runs the Windows 7 OS and features include 11.6" TFT-LCD display, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, USB2.0, SDHC slot, unlocked SIM card Slot, miniHDMI connector, OMTP Jack, a webcam, a mic, etc. y Neofonie releases the WeTab, a MeeGo-based slate tablet PC, featuring an 11.6 inch multi-touch screen at 1366768 pixels resolution. y Dixons Retail plc unveils the Advent Vega, a 10" tablet PC running Android 2.2, having a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset, 512 Mb of RAM and ROM, 1.3 MP camera, WiFi b/g connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1, a micro SD card slot, a USB port and a 16h battery life for audio playback and 6.5h for 1080p video. y Dell Announces the Inspiron Duo A flip screen Netbook and Tablet PC hybrid y HP releases the Slate 500, running a full-version of Windows 72011 y Motorola announces Xoom Tablet, a 10 inch tablet powered by the upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb y Asus announces the EEE Pad MeMO (7 inch tablet), EEE Slate EP121 (Windows 7 tablet), EEE Pad Transformer (10 inch tablet with Android and docking keyboard that transforms it into a laptop form factor) and EEE Pad Slider (10 inch tablet with sliding screen over the keyboard) y Dell showcases the Streak 7 tablet and says it's working on the 10 inch Streak 10

P-ISM
"P-ISM - Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions:

CPU PEN:

The functionality of the CPU is done by one of the pen. It is also known as computing engine.

COMMUNICATION PEN :
P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. They are connected through Tri-wireless modes (Blue tooth, 802.11B/G, and Cellular) which are made small and kept in a small pen like device

CONNECTIVITY 802.11B/G AND BLUE TOOTH

Blue tooth mechanism is used for exchanging signal status information between two devices. This techniques have been developed that do not require communication between the two devices (such as Blue tooths Adaptive Frequency Hopping), the most efficient and comprehensive solution for the most serious problems can be accomplished by silicon vendors. They can implement information exchange capabilities within the designs of the Blue tooth. The circuit diagram for the 802.11B/G is given below. It is nothing but also type of Blue tooth. Using this connectivity we can also connect it with the internet and can access it anywhere in the world. In fact, no-one expects much activity on 802.11n installations until the middle of 2008. Rolling out 802.11n would mean a big upgrade for customers who already have full Wi-Fi

coverage, and would be a complex add-on to existing wired networks, for those who haven't. Bluetooth is widely used because we can able to transfer data or make connections without wires. This is very effective because we can able to connect whenever we need without having wires. They are used at the frequency band of 2.4 GHz ISM (although they use different access mechanisms).

LED PROJECTOR
The role of monitor is taken by LED Projector which projects on the screen. The size of the projector is of A4 size. It has the approximate resolution capacity of 1024 X 768. Thus it is gives more clarity and good picture.

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) is the ULTIMATE new gadget for PC users. The VKB emits laser on to the desk where it looks like the keyboard having QWERTY arrangement of keys i.e., it uses a laser beam to generate a full-size perfectly operating laser keyboard that smoothly connects to of PC and Most of the handheld devices (PDA's, tablet PC's). The I-Tech laser keyboard acts exactly like any other "ordinary" keyboard:

FEATURES OF VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS ARE

VKB settings can be changed by SoundControllable Virtual Keyboard sound effects (key clicks) Connection: Connection to the appropriate Laptop/PC port Intensity: Intensity of the projected Virtual Keyboard Timeouts: coordinated timeouts to conserve the Virtual Keyboard's battery life Sensitivity: adjustable sensitivity of the Virtual Keyboard Auto-repeat: Allows the VKB to automatically repeat a key based on prescribed parameters.

DIGITAL CAMERA
We had digital camera in the shape of pen .It is useful in video recording, video conferencing, simply it is called as web cam. It is also connected with other devices through Blue tooth. The major advantage it is small which is easily portable. It is a 360-Degree Visual Communication Device. We have seen video phones hundreds of times in movies. However, why can't we act naturally in front of videophone cameras? Conventional visual communications at a distance have been limited due to the display devices and terminals. This terminal enables showing of the surrounding atmosphere and group-to-group communication with a round display and a central super-wide-angle camera.

BATTERY
The most important part in the portable type of computer is its battery. Usually batteries must be small in size and work for longer time. It comes with a battery life of 6+. For normal use it can be used for 2 weeks. This 'pen sort of instrument' produces both the monitor as

well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you would normally do on your desktop computer.

CAN ANY ONE SAY, 'GOOD-BYE LAPTOPS?'

Looks like our computers are out of date again!

CONCLUSION The communication devices are becoming smaller and compact. This is only an example for the start of this new technology. We can expect more such developments in the future.

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