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Twiddle-enabled Linux-based PDA



This is an interesting device.  The Invair Firewalker is a PDA designed to be
used with one hand.

"All PDAs available on the market today use a stylus or a keyboard for input,
and they suffer from a variety of ergonomic shortcomings in the relationship
between housing and display, which limits their usefulness in everyday
operation. INVAIR has addressed all those issues and presents at CeBIT 2002
the first PDA designed entirely for one-handed operation. Weighing just over
three ounces and using the tiny credit card form factor, the Linux-powered
device features includes a wealth of software in addition to standard PDA
functionality. The metal-clad FILEWALKER has a high quality display, an IR
port for email transfer, USB, a MMC Card slot, and it synchronizes with
Microsoft Outlook."

NB: There are no pictures of the apps, but there are hardware specs.  There
might be something I'm missing, but only one of the web pages is in English,
and the rest are in German (I think).

http://www.invair.de/english.html

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