Hi! I saw this TV program about wearable computers, and I got interested. A time after I saw it, I decided to build a hand-held keyboard. I found out about some signal pins on the paralell port, and I thought: "Why can't I just run one of the output pins through five keys from a broken keyboard, and back to those signal pins, then code a program to read'em?". Well, I did so, without any real good equipment. The "paddle" was created with a aliminium foil core, a roll of tape, five key switches, a soldering iron, and a few wires from a Nintendo paddle I had lying around. I was able to write things with the keyboard, using binary combinations, where one finger was one bit, but the human anatomy makes it difficult to do certain combinations, so the project was technically successful, but not practically. Some time later I had forgotten all about my little "invention", when I read an article about new user interfaces, and that desktop environments may not be future of computers. The article was interesting, and I found a few links to MIT pages about wearables, and I got my interest back. I've been searching around the net for more information, but it seems that most of it is outdated. I've heard about PC/104, WearComp ++, but I'm unsure of a few things: 1. How much will it cost to build a wearable? 2. What kind of display gives a good compromise between cost and resolution? 3. What's the most common input device for wearables, and how does it work? 4. Aren't hard drives kind of ... expensive? ;) Well, that's all I have to ask for this time. I hope someone will be able to answer. :) -- Thor Harald Johansen-- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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