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Re: Newer wearables?

I am enthralled with the Espresso and am wondering if anyone has
successfully hacked a battery pack for it (it doesn't have its own, which is
a major bummer). Danny, what if anything have you done on that score?

Sean Healy
----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Silverman <>
To: Wear-Hard <>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Newer wearables?

> My (very expensive, but still less than a Via or Xybernaut) brew:
> Espresso PC ($799) - 466 celery/64MB Ram/6GB (?) HD, Floppy, CD
> Truckload of Sony Infolithiums ($300)
> Twiddler ($199)
> MicroOptical Display (maybe, if it ever comes out or my company approves
it
> for testing for our new system) ($2000)
>
> Totao: $3300 + work.  I also plan to figure out MFC some day so I can make
a
> decent interface to the thing on the screen.  And no, I don't know Linux,
> because i'm an idiot.  I'll learn it some day.
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |              "To live is to suffer.  To survive, well,               |
> |            that's to find meaning in the suffering." - DMX           |
> +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
> |  Danny Silverman                  |           |
> +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
> geek - activist - free-speech advocate - mac devotee - student - trekkie
>
> > From: Josh Kindler <>
> > Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 18:12:52 -0500
> > To: <>
> > Subject: Newer wearables?
> > Resent-From: 
> > Resent-Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:12:12 -0400
> >
> > I've been wanting to get into Wearable computing for a while, but the
price
> > point of commercial ones (mainly Via and Xybernaut) is to high, while
> > home-brewed ones lik ethe WearComp and the Lizzy are either out of date
> > (Lizzy doesn't even have a pentium processor!), and/or require more
> > electronic expertise than I have.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of a newer, more powerful/newer
model?
> > (preferably one with a transmeta chip)
> >
> > Thanks.
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> >
> > Carpe Aptenodytes!
> >
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