I'd be VERY interested to learn if anyone got a watch keyboard working with a wearable... I am also, alas, not talented in this area, but would be happy to help hunt down some viable watches to use for prototyping for the person who can... BTW: I just got my twiddler- any hints on getting up to speed quickly, other than the obvious- practice, practice, practice? -Rick Charles J Knight wrote: > > > interesting suggestion. You prolly know the old Casio Calculator > > Watches, and that they have there own little keypad on board, and we > > were wondering if its possible to use that as an input for a > > wearable keyboard? I'm nut sure what you'd use for a cable that > > small but i'm sure someone knows something. Anyone ever try this or > > anythinbg like it? > > Excellent idea. Really quite good. In fact, I was using one of these > until Y2K hit (a 20 year old watch -- not Y2K compliant) and it became > impossible to set. It'll run fine for the next year, till the batteries > go dead > and I can't use it anymore. :-( > > The keypad could be used with a simple matrix -- that's all that most > keyboards are, anyway. You'd need to do some work to interface > it -- but there are people on this list who could do that in "no time." > Unfortunately, I'm not one of them. > > > Plus I was reading an old archive thread about what to wear > > wearbables in and I was suprised to see noone put a fishing vest. I > > There's a photographer's vest / jacket which would serve the same > purpose. LOTS of big pockets, and room for almost anything. > > Thought I'd mention something I saw for sale today -- it's a "fanny > pack" encased walkman radio. Since it's designed to hug the body > and not bounce around, it's designed very much like a wearable > computer would be. > > An interesting introduction to the new world of wearables, huh? > > -- Chuck Knight -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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