the last guy was right, but still... even you may have the capabilites of a space shuttle, you still gotta take into account you looks, after all you dont wanna look like your part of a wierd electro-nueral-bio experiment. sure some people may not care what they look like, but most people do. because most people do care about their looks, the xybernaut system never took off and pretty much every other wearable computer out there. they were only limited to industrial types of customers who had very limited social contact, and they didn't use it every day. lemme ask you this? would you go and sit down at your favorite coffe shope and then get about a billion wierd looks and laughs, making you the most embarassed person there, or having this wearable that blends in with your body and personality that peaple "ooo" and "aaaa" at? wearable computing may be one thing, but if it bulky, obtrusive, and ugly, what would make a person "want" to wear it unless they had too? I'll admitt that someday (maybe even in my time) wearable computing will become a regular, but still, it's like, it won't ever become really popular unless technology advances a helluv alot or some really smart engineers get working... I don't know about you people, but i would like to follow in Don Papp's footsteps and create something that doesn't looking like you have a crt strapped to your head and take wearable computing to the covert level. to me wearable computing is part art, engineering, imagination, and determination, and a butt load of skill.... -- 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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