Martin Ling wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:52:16PM -0400, Pete Hardie wrote: > > I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet.... > > > > *THE* killer app for a wearable would be a context-sensitive > > Theme music player. As you walk down the hall, in a bad mood > > because your SO is out-of-town, it plays Darth Vader's theme. > > I've thought about it. I *should* have mentioned it, but was rather > hoping to spring it from nowhere when I'd got somewhere. > > The MIT-designed, Philips-built stress sensor/glove that Jonny brought > to the UK meeting comes to mind. Add a number of other factors - heart > rate, body status (sitting/walking/running) etc - all easy enough to > gather. Drop in some neural network magic dust, and spend a while > training by example (rating your available tracks with some > categorisation, and perhaps tempo information) would help. The big question I have is good speakers for it. They'd need to be low-profile (flat) and tolerably low-footprint to hang from shoulders, I suppose. Power consumption is an issue, but one I'd consider worth and extra 2 lb of battery for the effect :-> -- Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team Scientific Atlanta | Digital Video Services Group | -- 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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