Wearables Central Best of '99

Okay, here are the result of this years vote for the best of 1999.

Best Commercial Wearable

Via Via II [Link]

Runner up: Xybernaut MAIV [Link]

Best Home-Brewed Wearable

Steve Mann's Wearcomp6 [Link]

Runners up: Tut Wearable [Link] and MIT Lizzy [Link]

Best Commercial Input Device or Keyboard

HandyKey Twiddler [Link]

Runner Up: L3 Wrist Mounted Keyboard [Link]

Best Display

TekGear M1 [Link]

Runners up: Liteye B [Link] and Virtual I/O iGlasses [Link]

Best Software

MIT Rememberance Agent [Link]

Runner up: Steve Mann's Mediated Reality [Link]

Best Wearable Parts & Components Vendor

Ampro Computers [Link]

Runner up: Allied Electronics [Link]

Most Innovative Application of Wearable Computing

Tie: Steve Mann's Mediated Reality [Link] and NASA Body Wearable Computer [Link]


Runner up: WetPC Underwater Wearable [Link]

Coolest New Hardware or Technology

ElectroFuel [Link]

Runner up: IBM MicroDrive [Link]

Favorite Place to go with a Wearable

Everywhere [Link]

Runner up: Work


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If you are one of the winners of this years Best of '99 vote, you can download a copy of the award image and link it back to this page.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for the best of 1999.

(Note: These results are not an endorsement by Wearable Central, but merely a summary of the results of our survey of wearable computing products and research.)