I know this is gonna sound liek the extreme low end of wearables...but most of these little things coem with a speaker in and audio out...so just put it in the hip holster get a headset write a simple (THATS a JOKE) speech recognition and TTS program and go....I mean...for most alerts, network interaction etc. an audio alarm is sufficient...it can talk to you and you reply... Actually if you want to get REALLY down and dirty....I am fairly certain it should be possible to interface a small microcontroller to a wireless network card then add a voice command chip plus one of those old TTS hardware solutions and bingo voice terminal....probably run for days on four AA's or so....instead of expandability you would have a tool, a device for a specific purpose for a low price. hmm even better build a voice over lan system and have a desktop (or in the case of a multiuser business environment a server) stream digital audio to you and receive your commands and execute them accordingly. In a perfect world we could do voice recognition and have every device where it recognized what user was wearing it and allowed access to the appropriate files. That way each "voice network interface" could be mass produced and totally identical. Couple all of this with a workforce of robots doing mundane pointless tasks (just think, you spillt your coffee by your desk all you have to do is ask for a cleanup and a robot comes and cleans it up). But the device can also do local interface things too. With a forearm or hip worn display, you can ask where is my supervisor and his location will be shown on the screen accompanied by a voice prompt so that you dont get caught playing Solitaire during maximum crunch time. Anyways...just a mind dump after reading soem of Doug's stuff and the clie 760c thing. I agree with Doug, the interface will have to change before wearables can truly evolve into an integral part of a worker or person. The key to acceptance will be the younger generation (MY GENERATION!!!!!). There are millions of teenagers in this country and a bunch of them are tossing a bunch of cash on other "fashionable" things. Those of you on the list with "normal" teenage kids who spend tons on clothes and mp3s players and stuff know how much money it is. If we can make wearable computers one of those "ooooohhh its so cool I HAVE to have one to be cool like my friends" we can mass produce hardware and gain acceptance with an older sect. Of course this plan could backfire very badly and cause a social clash. Bad publicity=a surveillance camera video on the evening news showing some teenagers ripping off some sort of ATM machine using your hardware to help in their hacking (I know its impossible but its only an example). but back to the interface thing. has anyone used a scope with some sort of preamp to attempt to "listen" to nerve signals in your hands? ECG's do it with our heart...it may be possible to do it with our motor nuerons....although it would be extremely hard to decipher the signals and distinguish between them. Any ideas? Maybe you guys can develop this further, I dont have the equipment or the money. Also, has anyone thought of developing a retinal tracking system, commercial units are way too expensive. It shouldnt be that bad. Eli -- 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* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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