> 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...
>
That's basicly the idea (except I'm going to follow the PalmOS design and
offload the TTS and other processor intensive functions)
I've already got one in my hip holster.. right now in fact..
and so do 1000's of others.
In rethinking this I've come to the conclustion that wearables already exist
and are so much part of current society that I didn't even notice it.
I've had a PalmPilot since they originaly came out. I've gone through a number
of them and there clones. Now finaly there is one that I own that is powerful
enough to open my eyes to the fact that 'HEY! This is what I've been looking
for all this 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
What I'm saying is that this has already happened. There was just an artical
in my local news paper in Lincoln Nebraska last week about how the local middle
schools are giving kids PalmPilots to do there homework on instead of paper
assignmenst. 'Here kids, beam this Pop Quiz to your group'
('Where?' you say.. EXACTLY! This isn't Los Angeles or NY or London, this is
middle America, farm country)
The wearable hardware is here, and is being used all over the place.
What it's really missing are applications that take advantage of it's potential.
I think that our view of wearable computing could be 'The Next Big App' for
highend (And possibly even low end) PalmOS and WinCE devices.
Think about things like the MIThrill IR ID tags implemented as 'Sprinboard'
modules for the Handspring Visor.
What about porting Bradley Rhodes 'Rememberance Agent' to the PalmOS?
There are already a number of digital cameras, gps modules, and keyboards sold
for these things at every BestBuy, Circut City, and Fries.
Now we just need to teach all these people what they've really got in there
hands and how amazingly usefull it CAN be by writing some software that takes
advantage of whats already available..
Thats my dream at least.. for now :-)
I almost missed one of the best parts. The already did all the marketing to
make wearables cool! And a lot of the UI design!
If any of you are in Japan, think of how many people you see on the train with
that little remote on their coat or tie that is tied into either a Sony Clie, an
MP3 player, or a mini disk player. Almost EVERYONE! And I'm seeing them more
often here in the states these days also.
Use this as the user interface of choice for quickly using your apps, with the
option of pulling the actual hardware out of your hip pack for more intese
applications. The earphones are comfortable and I've had one or both on here
at work for the past 2 weeks and no one really cares. Earphones are accepted
items in todays society, especialy earbuds that don't distract. They make a
great interface between me and the hardware.
Okay.. this has turned into a ramble (umm.. awhile ago I guess) so I'll stop
now. But as you can see I'm both really excited about wearables again AND about
the hardware available as 'off the shelf' wearables in the form of PDA's
M@
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