On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, Matt Carlson wrote: > The guest speaker was the CEO of National Semiconductor Did you get any sample ICs? <g> > asked 'What about wearable computers?' and the answer was that > they are 'a bit ahead of there time' and 'not very socialy > acceptable' but nice for 'industrial work'.. He is clueless. Wearable is the ultimate assistant, and integrates all of the various gadgetry. I will never touch a PDA or pager or mp3 player or GPS receiver or digital camera again. Eventually I want to add telephone to the list and make my wearable screen calls, look you up in a database, and ask you if you are selling me carpets. > When I started stripping down Was that an R rated IT session??? LOL > I acutaly had to show him the SBC Take your wearable to Japan any they will flock around you. They go absolutely bananas over this stuff. People would not leave me alone. I almost needed security people in order to leave after doing tech talks and demos. I have used my jacket to switch on my TV from europe, asia, and the middle east, and show it on live camera. If that is not a powerful "client" then nothing is. What fascinates me is that very soon my wristwatch will pack all the same features, then it will be a pendant on my necklace, and if you want go totally borg it should fit into your tooth in a decade or so. Paint it blue and make it wireless 802.11 <g>. > How many of you are using your wearables as thin clients? This is the very reason that I chased wearables in the first place. The hardware is just an engine. The power is in the software. The future will be distributed and connected. Everything will be a thin client, and they will all talk peer-to-peer. My real expertise is in distributed computing, I have been chasing it for eons. It's about to explode on a grand scale. > This has some merit I guess it depends on your definition of what a thin client is. My PCM-5822 is truly physically thin (it's not much bigger than a palm pilot. It's the ultimate thin client, because it's also a server and full x-windows client, and can run any peice of software on the planet. I don't see much point in building thinner clients when you can squish a server farm into your fingernail. Moore's law is going to deliver that to you very soon. -- Doug
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