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Re: Killer App for wearables

From: Pete Hardie <>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:42:34 -0400

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 :->

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Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta            |
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