Wearable computers

[purplemutantas]

I just got a head mounted display to experiment with wearable computing. I wrote this comment from my wearable pc. It rocks

[elaizaadams574]

watch this vid /watch?v=cmpaAoY3SQc

HAH! Awesome vid Shane! Hmm something weird and random..

[scribblywibbly1]

hey i've got an even better idea for the ipod control...using your fingers!!!!! seriously it's just lazy and pointless

[LedZepplinOwnz]

awesome hey did you know that the british came out with a personal supercomputer that makes yours look like shit

[SponggeBobb]

The glove idea is clever to cut down on accidents on the road, but would you really want to be seen wearing that? It looks like something from the space age.. Maybe if it was less 'sci-fi' people would consider buying it more.

[takineko]

its just a prototype. They will come out with different designs.

[thoughtwaretv]

Great video!!

[Biohazard724Max]

"i think that if they are goign to make any of these products available on the market they need to develop the visual aesthetics and human ergonomics better." -NightBreeze666

Well that goes without saying doesnt it, they are still in the development stages of course, thought that would be clear :\

[drawds]

worst idea EVER! And he's hopelessly excited about it.

[DrakeMagnum]

Well of course, but that's the nature of prototypes.

I think the computer the guy at the end has developed looks a little trashy but not like it's going to fall apart. He obviously knows what he's doing. Also, he's actually using it for a truly health-based benefit, instead of toying around with another dispensable consumer idea.

Kudos to that guy!

[purplemutantas]

@DrakeMagnum The wearable Greg Priest Dorman has isn't any kind of a prototype. It's his every day use computer he built. Yea it's not fancy looking, but it works. I dig his homebuilt chording keyboard. I may have to make one for the wearable I am building. Which incidentally I will be using as a reading machine too.

[purplemutantas]

@purplemutantas Also, his wearable is built off of a Sony viao UX UMPC. So the computer it's self is commercial off the shelf hardware. The only thing he built was the keyboard and the vest that carries it all. The display in the video is a modified liquid image M1.

[ferrariModenas]

not good enough!! bad ideas!

[WizardJim]

Damn, the 4 button keyboard looks tricky to learn.

[purplemutantas]

@WizardJim It's a chording keyboard. It has 7 buttons. One for each finger and 3 for the thumb. If you google spiffchorder you can find the schematics for it.

[MrJeff]

the last one is cool

[KiltedRic]

I agree although the keyboard looks like it would take a while to learn.