
New Datastick technology that gives 3Com’s Palm Computing Platform Personal Digital Assistant the capability of acting as a hand-held data acquisition system was previewed today at the PDA Expo in San Francisco by Datastick Systems. The Datastick Data Acquisition System consists of a hardware unit and software. It allows the measurement, recording and display of such data as 3D magnetism, 3D acceleration, temperature, pressure and many other analog sensor applications and is currently compatible with the Palm III PDA as well as the PalmPilot Professional Edition with upgrade card.