The Wrist PDA watch, due in February for $145 from Fossil, is a tiny data organizer that accepts information beamed via infrared from your Palm.
That will see the service competing to some extent with another newer startup, Mustbin, a mobile app that last winter raised $4.5 million in Series A funding for its personal data organizer.
Nokia's rectangular-shaped Communicator, an all-in-one personal data organizer and mobile phone from Finland, has surpassed Palm as Europe's most popular handheld computer; hailed throughout the Continent as the "next big thing," it's set to hit U.S. store shelves by early summer.
Mustbin, a personal data organizer that lets you snap photos of important documents – like financial statements, home and vehicle information, medical documents, and more – and store those securely in the cloud, has become one of the go-to apps on my iPhone's homescreen since it launched out of private beta last November.
But Weinberger's story-laden writing keeps readers from straying: He pulls together interesting moments in the history of data-organizers, ranging from Mortimer Jerome Adler's battle against alphabetization to the idea of a "memory palace" that began in the writing of Cicero.
Regarding the data preparation, organizers used the database of MAVIR project consisting of recordings of seminars and round tables organized at the general meetings of the project.
Defining the world's most dangerous sport remains a tricky subject, mainly due to limited data: Unsurprisingly, organizers and participants are loath to publicize deaths.
A central point that collects data from event organizers would address many of these problems and provide a valuable resource for life science event organizers and participants, course trainers and so on.
Hard tickets have given way to wristbands, often allowing in-and-out privileges (as well as crucial data for the organizers about attendance patterns).
