I finally have a good laptop (Toshiba M200), and am thinking of ways to easily build a wearable. HUD for output is impossible, since it's too expensive for me, but i think i can live with audio only for output. Voice recognition, however, isn't always socially acceptable, and doesn't have good enough bandwidth, imho. So far, i have three alternatives: 1. Nostromo n52. I think it weighs 0.5 kg, but that's with extra weight, so maybe someone can tell me how little it can weigh when lightened. It seems easy to use, not too bulky or conspicuous, but i've read that its keys are too stiff for typing. 2. Webcam (with gesture recognition). I think two would be better, since i could have stereosopic data, but it's not too important for now. I think the logitech orbit would be a good candidate, since it doesn't seem to be huge (smaller would be better, obviously), has mechanical pan&tilt, and can do 320x240 @ 30 fps (i can't seem to find any webcam that does better than that). Also has the advantage of being extremely versatile. 3. Half qwerty, frogpad, ... More expensive than the webcams and less versatile than webcams. (4. tac mics, but i think they're expensive :) So, erh. Do you have any advice or suggestion? Thank you __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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