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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 5:52:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | In advance of its official announcement next month, Symbol Technologies reveals details of next-generation wearable computers for distribution operations; officials offer insight into future under Motorola management. |
| Keywords: | Symbol Technologies, Motorola, wearable computers, hands-free computing, mobile computing. |
NEW YORK --In the wake of its agreement last week to be acquired by Motorola Inc., Symbol Technologies Inc. today released details of a new generation of wearable computers targeted primarily at bar code scanning in warehouse and package-picking environments. The WT4000 family, as the new generation is known, is Symbol's third-generation wearable computer. The wearable computer weighs 11.3 ounces and is built to withstand a four-foot drop. The 2.8-inch color display is an improvement on the smaller, monochrome screens of earlier generations, and provides backlighting that is intended to illuminate data even in poorly lit warehouses. A wrist strap with a plastic mount serves as the housing for the computer, which snaps onto the mount to enable hands-free operation. Alternately, the device can be worn on the hip, and also offers optional voice recognition functionality. A ring scanner -- the reader that drives many distribution center functions -- connects to the WT4000 via a cord and an updated connection point. That updated connection precludes any older Symbol scanners from functioning with the new computer. [Click to continue] |
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