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Re: wearable ideas

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Leon Heller wrote:

> I vaguely remember hearing of a group at MIT working on a LAN based on the
> human body.

I saw a talk by Mike Gorlick on clothing for personal area networks.  It
was a while ago so I'm sorry if this is old news, but I didn't find
anything on it in the archives.

Electric Suspenders: A Fabric Power Bus and Data Network for Wearable
Digital Devices
Mike Gorlick, The Aerospace Corp.
Abstract: One goal of wearable computing is to create digital devices that
are as easy to don and as comfortable to wear as common articles of
clothing such as blouses, pants, and belts. New forms of woven materials
such as conductive webbings, which incorporate durable electrical
conductors directly into the matrix of the weave, offer exciting
possibilites for closely integrating digital electronics with conventional
clothing. However, many practical obstacles hinder the adoption of these
materials, not the least being a lack of reliable electrical connectors
for the interconnection of conventional electronics with conductive
fabrics. We present a simple and workable design for just such connectors
and demonstrate how a commonplace article of clothing --- suspenders ---
can be transformed into an effective power bus and data network for
wearable digital devices. Both the power bus and the data network are
described in detail, including the mechanics of attachment and an outline
of the network protocols. The techniques described here can be readily
applied to other articles of clothing and accessories.

IEEE Xplore has a paper from Wearable Computers, 1999. Digest of Papers.
The Third International Symposium on  , 1999 Page(s): 114 -121

andrew

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