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From: Michael Paine <>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:36:46 -0700

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Does anyone know if police officers or bounty hunters are using wearable computers for surveillance yet?  

I love the idea behind wearable computers, but how long will it be until they are the same price as industrial walkie-talkies?  I mean, police officers have radio dispatch agents that do their "computation" now.  Isn't their use of a two-way radio the ultimate wearable computer to date?  Cheap, highly effective, informative, and disposable.

For me, I don't think I could afford a permanent radio dispatch agent of my own.  I would instead need a TTS/ASR program to replace them.. perhaps VoiceXML based.  Then, the interface only need be a modern two-way radio.. does anyone know of a Nextel (or similar in power) radio cell-phone with GPS?

Thus, the interface, being a thin-client without bells-whistles, could send/recv information directly to my home computer to do the real-work.. I guess the main problem is the natural language understand and processing technology to date.  Perhaps the release of OpenCYC next month will help.  

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know if police officers or bounty 
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I love the idea behind wearable computers, but how 
long will it be until they are the same price as industrial 
walkie-talkies?  I mean, police officers have radio dispatch agents that do 
their "computation" now.  Isn't their use of a two-way radio the ultimate 
wearable computer to date?  Cheap, highly effective, informative, and 
disposable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For me, I don't think I could afford a permanent 
radio dispatch agent of my own.  I would instead need a TTS/ASR program to 
replace them.. perhaps VoiceXML based.  Then, the interface only need 
be a modern two-way radio.. d</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>oes anyone know of a 
Nextel (or similar in power) radio cell-phone with GPS?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thus, the interface, being a thin-client without 
bells-whistles, could send/recv information directly to my home computer to do 
the real-work.. I guess the main problem is the natural language understand 
and processing technology to date.  Perhaps the release of OpenCYC next 
month will help.  </FONT></DIV>
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