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Re: wearables: interfaces, functions...

"Charles Bolton" <> writes:
> I like your vision, but I don't want to go about the world lugging
> different machines for deifferent tasks/contexts.
>
> I want my wearable to be cable of running big bore applications (like
> statistical analysis and displaying a scatter plot with an equation that
> best explains the variance in the series

Leave the machine with serious crunch power at home on your
network. When you need to get to that data from the field, the apps on
your wearable should be able to get to the computer in your home
pretty transparently. This isn't really much of a stretch -- I do most
of my work this way now, though I use a laptop, not a wearable.

> What we need is an operating system that let us design our own.  This is
> not for the consumer or the faint of heart, but it is the way to
> optimize the kinds of tasks we have to do between the various activity
> sets that  make up our lives.

Here, you've touched a point very well -- we don't yet know exactly
what will work best in the way of wearable UIs, so the pioneers
probably will end up figuring out what works best and building it for
themselves.  Large software companies will only get in the act after
the way has been paved.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		

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