Re: newbie question

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

Another viewpoint is that there is a significant array of devices out there
(cell phone, pda, ipod, digital camera) that are all converging on the basic
idea of an always-with-you, battery powered, wirelessly networked device with
significant processing and storage capabilities.  Throw in an acceptable
consumer-level head mounted display and you have a wearable computer.

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Doug

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:51:34AM -0500,  wrote:
> hi guys. i'm new to the area of wearable computing. I don't mean to troll, but i
> would like to ask the following question
> 
> <flame-redutant amiantos suit>
> I don't mean to be a luddite, by all means. I'm writing this email from a Plan 9
> web browser. My background is that of your standard compsci/unix geek. I don't
> get the hoopla behind wearable computing.
> 
> in this email ( http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-00/2000145.html ) Mr. Alison
> (i apologise in advance if you are a female), mentions:
> <quote>
> In the future I can see us all having difficulty explaining to our
> grandchildren the logic behind computers that sat on desks or perched
> our laps. They may even have to download archival material to their
> AOL/Dell Injectable (tm) to understand the logic of computers that
> strapped on our waists......
> 
> Thanks to the pioneering work of many on this list, the wearable
> community, universities, entrepeneurs and companies wearable computing
> is a trend approaching an inflection point. Computer companies that are
> slow to react to this trend will stumble. Some (such as VIA (tm) and
> Xybernaut (tm)) get it already - and are moving to supply what is
> currently considered by most large computer companies a niche market.
> Others seem to be laying the groundwork - note the recent IBM (tm) ad
> with the daytrader conducting his business via a voice activated
> wearable / cell phone while sitting on a park bench.
> </quote>
> 
> So, I guess, I'm one of the guys that doesn't get it. so, i got to ask this
> question:
> 
> What is the hack value of wearable computing? (
> 
> pardon my ignorance, i promise to get better in the future.
> 
> Thank you in advance, 
> George Marselis
> 
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