HP goes into military with flexible solar powered watch
Recently HP announced development of solar energy powered wristwatch for military purposes. The main feature will be a flexible display with special PowerFilm cover to supply the watch.
HP emphasis on the reliability – autonomous power supply, durable materials and a lot of envisaged handy for soldiers functions like: data acquisition, GPS map guidance on display, automated synchronization, etc. So far HP didn’t announced if the watch will be able to connect to Internet and what type of OS it will use.
The name of the new product is Dick Tracy, after the comic hero who use a watch with radiostation and videophone. The concept device is estimated by the end of the year.
On the other side the Ministry of Defence’s press secretary notified, that the Ministry did not purchased the development of new watch and she is not aware of the project.
