Well, Steve, if I were still physically capable of the kind of documentation work I used to do, I would adopt your solution instantly, and order that specific model of baby-carrier. In fact, given how light laptops have become, if I get a lot of money at some point, I might still buy a laptop and carrier for those brief periods when I'm actually mobile. For now I just lie down and type, using a keyboard and LCD monitor on my laptop desk (with trackball underneath, flat on the bed), with any old box on the floor. Since leaving NYC -- where transportation meant walking around -- for Charlotte -- a car-based suburb of a city where I can no longer get anything done myself, I spend so much of my time lying down that a wearable would be a luxury I couldn't justify. Obviously, I no longer do documentation work; even working as grant-writer-in-residence is physically very demanding, since I still have to talk to other staff occasionally, and standing around (unlike ordinary walking) is extremely uncomfortable for me. I've been waiting for a proper wearable computer since 1998, which is unconscionable when we realize the engineering innovations have already been accomplished. If one had been available, I might still be living in NYC, where I could function, and working. Your solution sounds as if it would have worked for me -- walking around typing as I interviewed people (I can't tell you how often I finally got hold of some exec who was the only person with that last bit of info I had to have, only to have him say something very like: "I'm on my way to the airport, walk me to the elevator"). Don't be put off. You'll definitely be far more productive with your laptop-in-carrier than those "innovators" with their STILL not quite working HMD's and such. In fact, one of the very earliest wearable solutions was a harness you could purchase, through specialty magazines in the early 80's, that allowed a person to walk around with their old Tandy Model 100 sticking out in front of them! Your solution sounds like a thoroughly appropriate update of this relatively old idea. Cheers -- Carol -- 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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