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Psion was a designer and manufacturer of mobile handheld computers for commercial and industrial applications. The company was headquartered in London, England with major operations in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and additional company offices in Europe, the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. It was a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Psion's operational business was formed in September 2000 from a merger of Psion and Canadian-based Teklogix Inc. and was a global provider of solutions for mobile computing and wireless data collection. The Group's products and services include rugged mobile hardware, secure wireless networks, robust software, professional services and support programs. Psion works with its clients in the area of new and emerging technologies including image capture, voice recognition and RFID. Psion has customers in more than 80 countries around the world, as well as operations in 14 countries.
Formed in 1980, Psion achieved its first successes as a consumer hardware company that developed the revolutionary Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants. Psion closed, or disposed of, all its previous operations and is now focused on rugged mobile computing solutions. It withdrew from the consumer devices marketplace in 2001. It was announced on 15 June 2012 that Motorola Solutions had agreed to buy the company for $200 million.
The Psions are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the DC Universe. The Psions first appeared in Tales of the New Teen Titans (vol. 1) #4 (September 1982) and were created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. The earliest uncredited appearance of the Psions was in The Witching Hour #13 (March 1971) written by Marv Wolfman.
Psion or variant may refer to:
- The J/ψ meson
- a person with psionic ability
- a character with in role playing games, see psionics (role-playing games)
- Psion (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons
- a character with in role playing games, see psionics (role-playing games)
- Psions (Freedom City), a fictional adversary group in Freedom City
- Psions, a fictional group in the game Adventure!
- Psion (comics), an alien race in stories from DC Comics
- Psion (想子), a fictional substanceless particle and psychic phenomenon, the basis of magic in The Irregular at Magic High School
- Psion, a novel by Joan D. Vinge
Usage examples of "psion".
Someone had come and tested me at the detention center, and afterward the Corpses told me I was a psion, I could read minds.
Her friend Trink from drama school had one of those Psion Organisers, a 7a, the most advanced kind he said.
Not all psions had the same level of control over their talents, the way not all artists had the same amount of skill.
There were psions who were born with multiple talents like a crown of semiprecious stones, and ones born with a single talent like a perfect diamond.
Siebeling made it sound like making history, like poor psions saving the galaxy.
I thought about psions plotting out in the Colonies, about going out there and stopping them, about being a hero and a part of history.
And then I really was a part of the research program, playing psi games with the rest of the psions and waiting for something to happen.
I caught images of a ragged, hungry kid with psi burning inside his head like fire, cursed by the Gift, like too many other psions in too many slums, in too many cities on too many worlds.
But over and over I dreamed about the Sakaffe Institute, about the psions and belonging to something good.
The thing that for even two human psions was a wonder had been the soul of every Hydran, had been their strength, their world, their One.
The contact at the Sakaffe Institute, from the psions who were making trouble out here in the Crab Colonies.
FTA offered me a chance to do real psionics research, to actually help psions in a way no one had been able to before.
Galiess introduced me to a few of the psions who were working as shopkeepers and workers.
But I felt their stunned surprise, the deeper fear beneath it, as they absorbed the truth about the human psions who had promised them deliverance.
They were psions, how could they do such a terrible thing and survive?