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wearable goes mobile

From: Doug Sutherland <>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 1980 00:41:17 -0800

wear-hards,

I took my leather jacket wearable on the road to Japan and Australia
in the past couple of weeks. To avoid being detained by the airport
security staff, I removed the CPU, hard drive, power supply, and GPS 
receiver. I had some fun on the airplane by re-assembling and booting
the jacket, then logging in from my laptop. I was running x-windows 
apps on the wearable, exporting the display to my laptop. I also 
tried the GPS receiver at 30,000 feet and 550mph, was able to track
5 satellites. It was also pretty cool to watch the GPS data on my 
sleeve display while walking around asia.

We do technology shows, and the audiences in both Japan and Oz were 
quite fascinated with the wearable. I was interviewed by a reporter
from "The Age" newspaper in Melbourne, and was told I may get on the
cover (I won't believe it till I see it though). The reporter said 
he would send me a copy.

  -- Doug

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