Dear List,
Greg I take your point, I probably should have been alot more spacific with my
question although
now that youve expanded on it my question's a bit more spacific thank's:
When I think wearable I'm usually thinking HMD and a bumbag full of computer
part's. so this excludes the palmer's & pacemakers.
I think the number's I'm looking for would be how many have built up from scratch
or bought there system's?
(whether it be for work or pleasure) With the price reduction thing I'm mainly
thinking interms of the HMD since
this is the most prominent cost of most wearables. So to that market you could add
possibly a portion of the
notebook maket. An interesting thing that somebody else pointed out to me in
response to this subject is that IBM
have started an add campaine for there upcomming wearable. (id be curious to here
more about that campaine by theway since it's not running in Australia)
look forward to hearing other thought's, regards
Shane Norris
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"Greg E. Priest-Dorman" wrote:
> >>>>> "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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