Sorry to break radio silence, but I was surprised to discover this wearable computing expedition to both poles that no-one has mentioned yet: http://www.thepoles.com/netscape/news.shtml In the winter of year 2000 and 2001 a small expedition, a man and a woman, will make an attempt to reach the south- and north Poles of the earth. Alone without outside assistance. Their means of communication with the world will be computers worn around their waists and monitors built into eyepieces on their heads. snip The technology unites various communication technologies in search of unlimited global communication, accessible by a self-powered system and small enough to wear on the body. To achieve this, a team with several of the worlds leading communication- and wearable computing companies has been formed. Many of the satellites, computers and displays are new to the market or the purpose, some not even yet launched. That's from the section: http://www.thepoles.com/netscape/themission.shtml There's an HMD picture there. The site is hard to navigate and full of SillyTalk(tm), but I found on the Preps and Tech page that they use Twiddlers (in fact, I linked from Handykey, but I wanted to doublecheck). More HMD pics are on the home page if you scroll down in the SillyBox(tm) to the Nov 16, Nov 13 and Oct 7 log entries. And a highly trick ninja-black borg pic is here: http://www.thepoles.com/netscape/houston.shtml Power is provided by high-efficiency solar panels charging Li-Ions. -Chris -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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