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Re: A great wearable-carrying pack

I am concerned about looks with a wearable as well,
but in a slightly different manner. It seems that many
people want an HMD that is faily unobtrusive and wont
draw undue attention. I am just the opposit. I
personaly like the "borg" look. I want a wearable that
is comfortable to wear but still has a borg type look.
It also seems like a borg type wearable would be
cheaper. Right now I am kinda broke so I can't afford
to build a wearable right now. Once I get some more
money I will start to put one together. I am thinking
of useing a fanny pack that is used for hiking to put
the computer in. Oh well I will have to worry about
that later on. 

Jennifer

--- Brian Kuriyama <> wrote:
> 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....
> 
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