Eyes front: Video may have killed the radio star, as the song says, but television has only bruised the movie screen, despite 70 years of trying to offer an experience to rival the cinema experience. Now cell phones and other mobile devices are competing with television.
Technology gurus have been trying for decades to create personal virtual screens that you can use to watch TV or video anywhere, with disappointing results. Most of the limitations have been solved with developments of the technology needed to drive gadgets such as iPods and 1-Seg mobile TVs.
Japanese technology distributor iSonic is boldly going where some have failed before with the recent release of Myvu Corp.'s personal media-viewer glasses — binocular head-mounted video displays. Plug these special glasses into a video source and the image is projected onto a small screen inside the visor.