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Re: Juggling and state of the wearables art

In a message dated 2/29/00 6:06:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
 writes:

<< I normally use a double-talk card to produce text to speech output. I find 
 this is very easy to use, and helps with oral understanding of things (as a 
 side effect, I can pick up on things that are said to me much easier). I 
have 
 a small, single ear around the ear headphone I hacked together which is 
 comfortable, and unobtrusive. I find that monitors are great to use, such as 
 the m1, but are very conspicuous, and being in a social environment, my 
 placement would be hindered if I looked like the borg that I am. On the 
other 
 hand, with my friends, by myself, or with other techies, I get all borged 
up. 
 I've been working on this design for about a year and this is the first I've 
 mentioned it. As far as I know it is the first attempt at something like 
 this, and I personally feel that it is a very clever step towards wearable 
 computing. As another step, I plan to use my 486 as an x11 gateway to much 
 more powerful computers in my office/house through wireless networking and a 
 gateway, much as Steve Mann has suggested. I hope these ideas are useful to 
 someone, but I also wish that I am acknowledged as being a contributer to 
 this concept if it ever takes off. I am happy to share with people, but find 
 that many times my contributions to various things get brushed under the 
 carpet so to speak (well, he didn't actually finalize anything, so he 
doesn't 
 matter). I can take this on a small scale, but when everybody does it but my 
 close group of colleagues, it can get very frustrating, and many times lead 
 to me thinking about "hoarding" my ideas, something that I think everyone 
 should avoid doing with their own intellectual property. >>

Patrick,

As an academic/writer-turned-computergeek, I am used to sharing credit where 
credit is due (oh, my God, the footnotes! he he).  However, the idea of using 
the wearable as a gateway to a wireless network is NOT a new idea.  Bluetooth 
is capitalizing on the idea of using various electronic entities as such, and 
HP is getting on the bandwagon.  Before them, though, there was 
LONWorks...similar concept in letting each component talk to the others...

Cheers,
Daryl

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