Built to withstand the hottest lava flows (or at least being placed in a Humvee’s tire tracks for a press photo), Olympus has announced the world’s first “Tough Digital Assistant”. Configurable in both milquetoast Win CE.Net 4.2 or the hairy, bearded Linux option, it can also include both Bluetooth and 802.11b, if you chose, ruggedly transmitting radio waves capable of traversing the rockiest electromagnetic spectrum. They claim it can withstand a four-foot drop onto concrete, but strangely can’t withstand concrete dropped from four feet above it (probably; they won’t let us try).
It’s nice looking, though, especially in a category otherwise filled with knobby plastic chassis (with horrible gas mileage).
Olympus R1000 World’s First TDA [PDAToday via LetsGoDigital]
Rugged Olympus R1000 runs CE .NET, Qtopia [InfosyncWorld]
