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Re: wearables: interfaces, functions...

At 10:42 PM 11/3/02 -0500, >Perry wrote:

>Carol Stein <> writes:
>> First, any wearable computer that does not REPLACE a laptop or
>> desktop won't succeed... by which I mean, if we need to keep the
>> desktop/laptop as well as the wearable (to take care of tasks the
>> wearable can't handle), why bother?
>
>You might bother because your application is different.
>
>As an obvious current example, your application might be to allow
>someone repairing an aircraft engine to call up documentation while
>working.
>
>However, as a way of turning your comment completely on its head: if
>what you're going to do is let someone run Microsoft Word, why bother?

I thought I explained that the reason to bother is to make wearables *affordable* for those of us who WOULD use the novel applications. How many aircraft documenters do you think there are in the world?

It's true that wearables exist already, and have for some years now, for the niche markets (such as this, and surgeons working on a small scale, etc.). But to make wearables cheap (and ubiquitous), we need volume, and that entails making them as a replacement for today's general-purpose PC business & home user.

Believe me, I can think up many great ways to use wearables. In fact, I'm already trying to suss out the next step -- how do we identify the parameters of making the world safe for wearable users, or keep the world safe from wearable users (as from cell-phone-using-drivers)? But first -- I want my wearable! And I've already been waiting since June 1998 for it! I want it now!

Cheers --
Carol

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