You know those Science Fiction movies where the guy puts on a pair of glasses or another type of headpiece and there are all kinds of bits and pieces of information being displayed? Those movies were quite popular in the nineties and I bet you always dreamed (especially when you were a kid) of owning such a device. Well your childhood dreams may soon come true with the help of Kopin's Golden-i computer interface.

“Built on Microsoft’s Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 operating system, Golden-i is capable of remotely waking Windows PCs from a hibernating state,” said John C. C. Fan, Kopin president and chief executive officer. “After Golden-i establishes a Bluetooth, WiFi or cellular link through a host device, users see their PC desktop screen on a 15-inch virtual display, offering hands-free access to PC applications, data files and services. When work is done, the PC may be placed in hibernation with a single spoken command.”

Tired of having to carry your laptop around? Is a smartphone not enough for you? How about connecting the Golden-i headset to the smartphone and allowing it to feed the information to your 15-inch virtual PC display? Then, just talk your way around thanks to the hands-free natural speech recognition interface. It is all made possible with the help of an ARM Cortex A8 graphics accelerator, OMAP3530 processor from Texas Instruments and Micron's multi-bit node DDR2 RAM / NAND FLASH Package-on-Package OMAP mobile memories and MicroSD cards. Who said it was easy right?

I'll leave the end in the able hands of David Wurster, senior product manager for Windows Embedded at Microsoft: “Microsoft is proud to continue working with Kopin and other partners throughout our ecosystem to continue driving dramatic shifts in mobile computing and communications […] Microsoft’s componentized, real-time Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 operating system provides a powerful platform to support Golden-i’s ability to interact with multiple handheld devices, PCs, servers and enterprise networks.”


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