Peter Cohen of playlistmag.com writes about a slick new acessory for Apple's new video iPod......It can be a pain — literally — to hold your hand up a few inches from your face and watch the iPod’s display for an hour or two. The MicroOptical Corp. has developed a solution — the $269 Myvu, which debuted at Macworld Expo in San Francisco this January.
Myvu is a wearable headset that displays a video image in front of your eyes. It resembles a pair of space-age sunglasses. Inside the front of the unit is MicroOptical’s patented display system, which the company has adapted from hardware it’s developed for the military — for tank drivers and others that can benefit from seeing more information at once.
Westwood, Mass.-based The MicroOptical Corp.’s display systems are also used in medicine, for specialists who need to monitor the vital signs of their patients while remaining mobile around the operating room. Those systems cost thousands of dollars, however, while The MicroOptical Corp. has scaled Myvu — its first consumer product — to be more affordable to regular end user.
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