On Mar 17, 5:21 pm, John Fields wrote:
On 17 Mar 2007 11:57:20 -0700, "jerry"
wrote:





On Mar 17, 2:16 pm, "jim menning" wrote:
"jerry" wrote in message

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Gurus,

I need your help...

I am an amateur triathlete and I'm getting ready for the start of the
triathlon season and I had this problem last year that I'm trying to
solve.

The problem is that during an open-water triathlon swim I need to skip
a stroke every so often to lift my head out of the water and site the
next turn buoy. I usually find myself off course by a few yards and
need to make corrections. This costs me time from being off course
and from skipping a stroke. So, I had this idea to take apart an old
digital camera or picture phone and mount the camera part to the back
of my head and attach the LCD part in front of my goggles.

Sound

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Not yet!

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But, if it's patented, it'll be illegal for you to build one.

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I just looked at the patent he refrenced, and I'm not so sure it
applies.
It talks about using a fiberoptic cable, and seems more of a "flexible
periscope"
than a camera based system.

Which would make the whole patent subthread a moot point.

But I am not a lawyer, and only cursorily glanced at the patent ...