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>>>>> "Shane" == Shane Norris <> writes:

Shane> PS: Does anyone know of any statistics on how many wearable computer
Shane> users there currently are? ie how much longer it will be before wearable
Shane> product's become mainstream and subject to the price reductions
Shane> associated with mass market products?

The problem with gathering numbers is you first need to define
"wearable computer users" in a way that people can agree on.

Are you asking:
 "How many HMDs have been sold?"
 "How many people have pacemakers?"
 "How many people have given up their desktops in favor of full time
 wearable aternative?"
 "How many people don't get more than 3' away from their Palm Pilot at
 any point of their life?"
 "How many people wear use medical devices that contain computers?"
 "How many people have a wearable computer put on them as part of
 their job?"
 .
 .
 . 

I would guess a "small handfull" of us are regularly wearing machines
that mostly or totaly repalce our need to localy (vs remotely access)
use a "conventional computer" (workstation/desktop/laptop) on a
regular basis, by our own choice (not a job requirement) and at this
point mostly built by our own hand.  - under or around 100?

I would speculate that if you add those that have worn as part of a an
educational endevore (MIT media lab, U. Toronto etc), for
occupation/research (Fed. Ex. Philips, Via, Military, FBI, etc.) and
occasional recreational use (wet PC and dive computers come to mind)
you could kick that up into the thoushands.

As you are asking about price reduction, I will leave off medical
devices and adaptive equipment. :-)

All of the above is just speculation on my part, but depending on how
you define the question you are asking, we might be able to gather up
some accurate data.

Other thoughts?

Greg

-- Greg Priest-Dorman



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