Re: Wearable Computers

[Matthew Crosby <mcrosby@marthon.org>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Leeland Artra wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> While we are on the subject of small computing devices some of my projects want
> to use a bit more computing power than a palm device (which I have and use all
> the time). Has anyone seen a production wearable computer? I remember seeing
> some news blips about a very small belt loop computer with a eyeglasses heads up
> type display and a hand glove keyboard. I haven't found a production unit
> available yet...
> 
> If anyone else is interested I'll build a summary of responses and email it to
> interested parties (just let me know).

There's a fair amount of interest and a number of custom models, but no one
sells them off the shelf in the config you want by the sound of it.  Still,
one can get relatively small computers, and a twiddler (chording keyboard),
and that just leaves the display, of which there are vartious options (none
that I've been happy with myself, but they are getting there).

MIT has been doing a lot of work, see 
http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/ for their web
site (which has some very useful links and faqs)

There's also a mailing list, wear-hard@haven.org which may be able to help you
better.