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iPAQ Pocket PC being used by astronauts
Star Trek fans take note; tricorders might not be too far off.
From SPACE, "Finally, the inner-geek in all of us can go out and buy something astronauts actually use in space. And it's an off-the-shelf product no less!
On Thursday, May 6, HP announced that their handy, dandy iPAQ Pocket PC was being used by the Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station Soyuz 8 space craft.
For anyone who has ever dreamed of owning a Star Trek -like Tricorder, this is very cool. The handheld computers run a truncated version of Microsoft Windows, and will be used by astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka as mobile productivity tools to record daily crew procedures, write personal memos and check e-mail and calendars."
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on 05/08 at 02:26 PM
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