Re: Wearable Computers

[cdl <cdl@nano.com>]

Interesting article on wearable computers including
links at the bottom of page.

http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/mann.htm



On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:51:19 -0500
>From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@tux.org>
>To: "sage-members@usenix.org" <sage-members@usenix.org>
>Cc: "sage-members@usenix.org" <sage-members@usenix.org>
>Subject: Re: Wearable Computers
>
>On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:22:45AM -0800, Leeland Artra wrote:
>> While we are on the subject of small computing devices some of my projects want
>> to use a bit more computing power than a palm device (which I have and use all
>> the time). Has anyone seen a production wearable computer? I remember seeing
>> some news blips about a very small belt loop computer with a eyeglasses heads up
>> type display and a hand glove keyboard. I haven't found a production unit
>> available yet...
>
>They're around.  A local radio station was discussing them this weekend.
>I don't remember the names, but there will be a link at one of
>www.{wtop,wtop2,wtopnews}.com.  They're said to be expensive.
>
>There was also an article in a not-too-long-ago issue of Linux Journal.
>[OK, so ALL issues of LJ are not too long ago ... ;-)]
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