'Step Back' for Wireless ID Tech? By Elisa Batista Wired News 02:00 AM Apr. 08, 2003 PT In a move that may have brought unwanted attention to a burgeoning industry, Italian clothing maker Benetton Group said it has not embedded any radio frequency identification tags in any of its clothing. The group was responding to recent press reports that the company planned to incorporate radio frequency identification tags -- wireless transmitters the size of a grain of sand -- into the labels of ...

A brief history of wearable computing Questions, comments, and corrections write: Bradley Rhodes , MIT Wearable Computing Project This page is at http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/timeline.html Many thanks to Thad Starner, Chip Maguire, Doug Platt, Sandy Pentland, Dick Urban, Jun Rekimoto, Edgar Matias, Al Becker and others for their contributions and suggestions. Foundations (F): Thinkers, innovations, and experiments that helped pave the way f ...

PACIFIC NW POLLUTION PREVENTION RESOURCE CENTER POLLUTION PREVENTION RESEARCH PROJECTS DATABASE Project Title: A Case Study in Environmentally Conscious Design: Wearable Computers Carnegie Mellon University Date Last Updated: 9/99 Project completed. Summary will not be revised again. Project Summary: This study discusses electronic product design for the environment and presents methods by which designers can evaluate the environmental implications of their design choices. We have exami ...

A look at human interaction with pervasive computers by W. S. Ark IBM Systems Journal Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 A collection of papers has been gathered in order to explore the pervasive computing trend with a humanistic approach. Is it possible for us to understand what the technological world will be like in the next millennium? These papers will help technologists to share in the successes of others in this field and also to understand problems researchers are having in creating ubiquito ...

A Shoulder Pad Insert Vibrotactile Display Aaron Toney†, Lucy Dunne‡, Bruce H. Thomas†, Susan P. Ashdown‡ †Wearable Computer Laboratory School of Computer and Information Science University of South Australia aaron.toney@hhhh.org, bruce.thomas@unisa.edu.au ‡Department of Textiles and Apparel College of Human Ecology Cornell University {led6,spa4}@cornell.edu Abstract Touch is the most intimate and inherently private human sense and provides the potential for discrete, low social we ...

A universal information appliance by K. F. Eustice IBM Systems Journal Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 The consumer's view of a universal information appliance (UIA) is a personal device, such as a PDA (personal digital assistant) or a wearable computer that can interact with any application, access any information store, or remotely operate any electronic device. The technologist's view of the UIA is a portable computer, communicating over a bi-directional wireless link to an elaborate software ...

Matias, E., MacKenzie, I. S., & Buxton, W. (1996). A wearable computer for use in microgravity space and other non-desktop environments. Companion of the CHI '96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 69-70). New York: ACM. A Wearable Computer for Use in Microgravity Space and Other Non-Desktop Environments Edgar Matias The Matias Corporation 600 Rexdale Boulevard, Suite 1204 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9W 6T4 (416) 675-3092 edgar @ halfkeyboard.com I. Scott MacKenzie D ...

A wearable public key infrastructure (WPKI) N Smart and H Muller University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science October 2000 In: Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Blair MacIntyre and Bob Iannucci, editors, pages 127--133. IEEE Computer Society, October 2000. Abstract We describe the design and implementation of public key infrastructure for the Bristol University Cyberjacket and three initial applications. The first one removes the need for the user to ...

Adapting world phone to many standards By Paul Master EE Times April 25, 2002 (10:06 AM EDT) Technology trends are rapidly moving to comply with consumer and business demands for a single mobile device that allows users to stay connected to their business and personal environments at any time, from anywhere in the world. The future "world phone" could be turbocharged by unique and adaptive silicon architectures, such as the adaptive computing machine (ACM). Today, the designer ha ...

Aeronautical Electric Company 5656 N. Northwest Highway Chicago, IL 60646 Tel: 773-774-5200 Fax: 773-774-7946 aero@aeronauticalelectric.com Who we are? Since 1944, Aeronautical Electric Company has strived to provide customers with quality products, excellent customer service, and timely delivery schedules at reasonable prices. Our lead time is typically three to four weeks. Occasionally, a customer may require an earlier delivery schedule which we try to provide through partial shipments ...

Allen's Vulcan develops wireless Mini-PC Handheld unit debuts at Consumer Electronics Show By DAN RICHMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Thursday, January 9, 2003 A hitherto unknown group within multibillionaire Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. techno-empire has designed a compact, lightweight, wireless computer that is expected to debut by Christmas for between $1,200 and $1,500. The device, which Seattle-based Vulcan calls the Mini-PC, was previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las V ...

AMD, Metrowerks platform supports Linux-based PDAs By Nicolas Mokhoff EE Times January 22, 2003 (12:02 PM EST) NEW YORK — To support the development of handheld devices running Linux, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Metrowerks have created the OpenPDA Linux-based software platform for personal digital assistants and smart phones based on AMD's Alchemy Solutions Mobile Client reference design kit. The companies demonstrated a pre-release version of OpenPDA at LinuxWorld here Wednesday (Jan ...

At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems by D. C. Dryer IBM Systems Journal Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a ...

Audio Clothes [Benoît Maubrey - Die Audio Gruppe | Bahnhofstrasse 47 | D-14806 Baitz | T++49-33841-8265 | F++49-33841-33121 | email maubrey@snafu.de ] Artwork: Performances with electro-acoustic clothes AUDIO BALLERINAS AND ELECTRONIC GUYS The Audio Gruppe creates mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures in public spaces. Benoît Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes (past examples: AUDIO BALLERINAS, AUDIO GEISHAS, AU ...

Augmented Memory MIT Media Lab Last modified: Fri Nov 10 10:29:59 1995 One of the key differences between a wearable computer and the currently available palmtops is that wearables are always operational, tend to have sensors into their environement, and tend to have the ability to get information to the wearer even when the wearer doesn't expect it. This opens the door to a whole range of augmented memory applications specifically for wearable computers. A simple example of augmented memo ...

Awareness and Communication MIT Media Laboratory Nomadic Radio will provide listeners with an ability to have an awareness of their colleagues and communicate with them using the wearable audio platform. Spatial auditory awareness cues will indicate when people login, move to other rooms or logout, detected via the Position Server that keeps track of a selected user community. The listener can ask "who's there" and the system will speak the names of people currently available or use auditory c ...

Between the Skin and the Garden New Modes of Interaction in the Wearable Data Environment by Katherine Moriwaki HorizonZero Issue 16 : WEAR With current developments in wearable computing and "smart" environments, one might envision a future heavily branded by major technology players dictating not only market forces but also experience paradigms. Running parallel to this commercial approach, an emerging body of wearable artistic work is developing which continues to challenge and inform com ...

Embedded Systems: Boosting the Productivity of Embedded Systems Designers Virginia Tech Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering April 2003 As embedded systems become more mobile and widespread — including use in the human body, in geological and space sensors, and in weapons systems, the issues for systems designers grow more numerous and critical. Power, real-time communications, system availability, reliability, and other Quality of Service (QoS) issues are growing more complex. ...

BRUNEL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN UNVEILS AMAZING NEW SENSORY FABRIC TECHNOLOGY SET TO REVOLUTIONISE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Brunel Faculty of Technology and Information Systems 08/29/2003 05:04:00 Innovative sensory fabric design set to revolutionise the way we communicate and interact with people and products. The new fabric provides immediate benefits for the automotive industry - making every car a 'smart' car. EGHAM, 11th February 2002 - Brunel University's 'Design For Life Centre' ...

bYOB (Build Your Own Bag): Gauri Nanda Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bldg E15–357 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 02139 nanda@media.mit.edu V. Michael Bove Jr. Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bldg E15–368B 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 02139 vmb@media.mit.edu Adrian Cable Media Lab Massachusetts Institute Technology Bldg E15-357 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 02139 acable@mit.edu MIT Media Lab ABSTRACT We present bYOB (Build Your Own Bag), a flexible, ...

Chip implant gets cash under your skin By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com November 25, 2003, 9:32 AM PT Radio frequency identification tags aren't just for pallets of goods in supermarkets anymore. Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, Fla., is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant RFID chips under their skin to identify themselves when going to a cash machine or in place of using a credit card. The surgical procedure, which is performed with local anesthetic, embeds a 12-by ...

CLOthes - thEY LIVE! Don Connigale The British Council - Design Lab Total Interactivity is getting closer and closer. Soon even our clothes will be sending messages! It’s like one of those shape-shifting creatures from a sci-fi movie. It changes shape. It changes colour. It can become any object it wants. It’s live. It transmits signals. And may soon be on the way to your home. But don’t sweat. Literally. Because this is ElekTex, a ‘smart’ fabric that senses pressure and movement, and cond ...

Computation and Technology as Expressive Elements in Fashion Elise Dee Co B.S. Art and Design Massachusetts Institute of Technology June 1998 Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology June 2000 Copyright Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 All rights reserved Abstract This thesi ...

Computer-wear wires the catwalks October 7, 1999 Web posted at: 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT) CNN Day wear and evening wear are regular features on the catwalk. But computer hardware isn't generally considered couture. Until now. A recent New York fashion show aimed to de-geek the wired image with a display of wearable computer accouterments. From Internet-connected radios that look like futuristic jewelry to an experimental embroidered keyboard for your sleeve, a little skin and a lot of know-how are selling the haute tech image.

Computerized clothes are still the fashion of the future By: Joyce Slaton mBusinessDaily 2002 Cell phones have gotten so small that they've vanished altogether. Levi's and Philips Electronics' new ICD+ jacket with built-in mobile phone and MP3 player heralds the much-anticipated age of wearable computing. The tech world has long buzzed over the possibilities of wearables -- microcomputers that offer desktop functionality but are small and portable enough to hide in clothing, wrist gadgets, ...

Computerized clothing part of fashion's future By Erika Noonan Associated Press Las Vegas-Review Journal Sunday, November 09, 1997 Clothes with functioning computers attached to them have launched a new cyberfashion trend. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Miniskirts? Try minicomputers. Stonewashed jean jackets? How about a denim coat with a synthesizer that plays the Stones as you sashay along? It's cyberfashion, funky clothing with a computer chic that would have even Judy Jetson scrambling ...

Conductive Materials Intelligent Textiles Conductive fabrics combine the latest high wicking finishes with high metallic content in textiles that still retain the comfort required for clothing. With the addition of nickel, copper and silver coatings of varying thickness, these fibres provide a versatile combination of physical and electrical properties for a variety of demanding applications. For example, the thousand-fold increase in thermal conductivity of metal over conventional polymers us ...

Context-Aware Computing (or, why context needs wearables and wearables need context) Bradley Rhodes MIT Media Laboratory Most desktop computer applications have an explicite user interface that expects you to specifiy exactly what you want the computer to do. Wearable computers will certainly be able to run the standard desktop applications like wordprocessing, spreadsheets, and databases, but to expect these to be the primary applications for wearables is to ignore the vast potential for w ...

Context-aware design and interaction in computer systems by T. Selker and W. Burleson IBM Systems Journal Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4, 2000 MIT Media Laboratory by T. Selker and W. Burleson As the human-computer interface becomes more pervasive and intimate, it will need to explicitly draw upon cognitive science as a basis for understanding what people are capable of doing. User experience and situation should be integrated into the computer system design process. Situational awareness ...

Cyberguide: Prototyping Context-Aware Mobile Applications Sue Long, Dietmar Aust, Gregory D. Abowd & Chris Atkeson GVU Center & College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 USA {suelong,aust,abowd,cga}@cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce Table of Contents ABSTRACT Introduction Background The Design of Cyberguide Evaluating and Extending Cyberguide Conclusions Acknowledgments References ABSTRACT We are interested in prototyping futu ...

CYBER_FASHION: WHAT IS IT? Julia Set published by the Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design At the CyberFashion show at SIGGRAPH 2004 the majority were clad in latex and tribal burning man attire. While certainly fascinating because of the showmanship (amazing outfits were presented there), it did not represent the full spectrum of cyberfashion, and paid too much attention to light-up outfits and "futuristic" clothing. After participating in the show and having one of th ...

Definition of "Wearable Computer" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Definition of what is meant by the term wearable computer, e.g. a definition of wearable computing. Wearable Computer Definition taken from Steve Mann's Keynote Address entitled "WEARABLE COMPUTING as means for PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT" presented at the 1998 International Conference on Wearable Computing ICWC-98, Fairfax VA, May 1998 ----------------------------------------------- ...

Designers note: smart clothes are 'nerd chic' for the nineties - incorporating computers into fashion - Technology by Cynthia Long Insight on the News LookSmart May 5, 1997 Forget Calvin and Karan ... think `smart' lingerie. Climate-control jockeys may not be for everyone, but futurists are excited about new ways for humans and computers to interact more, well, naturally. Meet George Jetson. A successful businessman, Jetson travels to faraway cities for important meetings. Unsure about th ...

Dialing for Dollars By LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN Tokyo Time.com June 4, 2001 A scruffy-looking guy strolls through a supermarket, stuffing groceries into his baggy trench coat. A security guard tails him as he heads toward the exit, passing through what looks like a metal detector. "Excuse me, sir," snarls the guard, snatching a piece of paper from the machine. "You forgot your receipt." It's a tantalizing fantasy of how easy shopping could be in a cash-free world, as envisioned in a TV ad by IBM ...

Appears in: Proceedings of the ICASSP '98 Digital Processing of Affective Signals Jennifer Healey and Rosalind Picard Rm E15-389, The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 fenn@media.mit.edu, picard@media.mit.edu Abstract: Affective signal processing algorithms were developed to allow a digital computer to recognize the affective state of a user who is intentionally expressing that state. This paper describes the method used for coll ...

Dress and Ange: coercing the address of highly personal body-centric issues July 2004 Danielle Wilde Sophie Birkmayer Springer-Verlag London, UK ACM Portal Source Personal and Ubiquitous Computing archive Volume 8 , Issue 3-4 (July 2004) table of contents Pages: 264 - 273 Year of Publication: 2004 ISSN:1617-4909 ABSTRACT This paper compares two interactive interfaces, Dress and Ange, designed to facilitate an experiential address of the user or viewer’s relationship to ...

e-textiles: Work of 11 Prominent Artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan." absolutearts.com 2002-03-06 until 2002-06-30 Textile Museum of Canada Tortonto, ON, CA Canada e-textiles brings to Toronto the work of 11 prominent artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and Japan. Making use of the natural world, portraits, photographs, abstract and computer-inspired imagery, these artists are creating, through their use of technology, a new weaving language. Par ...

Electric plaid and other thermochromic delights March 13, 2003 by Melanie Takefman Concordia's Thursday Report Remember those shirts from the ’80s that changed colours? Joey Berzowska does, with disdain. They “would change colours in your armpits,” said the professor of Design Art and DFAR (Digital Image and Sound and the Fine Arts). “That wasn’t cool!” To improve on that fashion nightmare and commercial failure, Berzowska is creating a material that changes colours using thermochromic ink ...

The intelligence of the second skin: Electro Textiles and Cargo Fashion Birgit Richard Talk about the cultural implications of wear com and youth as symbolical avantgarde users of integrated technologies. Different Forms of Integrating Wearable Computing into everyday life (Focus on how youth cultures deal with technologies, their low tech approach) Smart fashion and intelligent textiles Technology determines the space of human every-day life not only by its existence in public and priva ...

Electronic Fashion: the Future of Wearable Technology By Joanna Berzowska Concordia University and XS Design Studio http://www.berzowska.com Electronic textiles, also referred to as smart fabrics, are quite fashionable right now. Their close relationship with the field of computer wearables gives us many diverging research directions and possible definitions. On one end of the spectrum, there are pragmatic applications such as military research into interactive camouflage or textiles sat ...

The Enchantment Window Manager: A Wearable Computing User Interface White paper v1.0 by Edward Keyes, August 24, 2000 Introduction A wearable computer needs a user interface which is distinct from that used on desktop systems. This is because the input and output methods are different, because the user attention is different, and because the tasks are different. On a desktop machine, a full keyboard and graphical pointing device are usually available, and the output device is a large monito ...

Engineers, fashion designers create wearable technology By ANGELA PACIENZA CANOE cnews August 2, 2004 It's every fashionista's dream to change outfits by pressing a single button. The Jetsons-like fantasy of skirts that get shorter in hot summer weather or turn red for a night on the town isn't that far off. Fashion designers and computer science engineers have joined forces this summer to develop wearable technology at the Banff New Media Institute in Alberta. In the basement of the cen ...

Fashion 1.0 - Modular Flexible Mobile System From: Doug Sutherland <> From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:36:55 -0700 wear-hards, I am pressing the reset button and establishing an entirely new platform of hardwear and softwear for mobile computing (for wearablez, carz, toasterz, or whateverz). This new design is gleaned from many small progressive experiments in embedded systems design, network software design, and alternative interface design, va ...

Fashion Ecologies The evolving field of responsive, sustainable textiles By Maja Kuzmanovic HorizonZero Issue 16 : WEAR When human lives unfold in spaces that appear to be increasingly chaotic, unpredictable, and even hostile, we generally tend to adopt "hedgehog strategies": we curl up into a prickly ball that will hurt everything that comes too close. Our survival instincts, fed by a cultural need for comfort and safety, tell us to protect ourselves from anything remotely strange. However, ...

Fashion Sensing / Fashioning Sense A conversation about aesthetics with International Fashion Machines' Maggie Orth by Anne Galloway HorizonZero Issue 16 : WEAR Textiles are one of humanity's oldest technologies, and costuming has always been central to cultural and personal identity. Clothes and accessories mark and communicate our similarities and differences. In terms of social interaction, cross-cultural encounters are both facilitated and constrained by fashion, be it external body modi ...

Fashion: Emotional Skin Published on 06 August 2002 Deirdre Crowley The British Council - Design Lab The expression ‘wearing your heart on your sleeve’ may soon become a fact of life. ‘Fashion’, writes JG Ballard, ‘is a recognition that nature has endowed us with one skin too few, and that a fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally.’ The jewellery of Sompit Moi Fusakul takes Ballard’s insight at its face value. Moi, a PhD student in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Meta ...

Fibre options Monday August 14, 2000 Simon O'Connell Guardian Touch your collar and your phone flickers into life. Tap your pocket and your CD player switches on. Sounds like sci-fi? Far from it, says Simon O'Connell - clothes are about to get technical Fashion is about staying ahead of the game. Yet compared to other industries, such as car manufacture or telecommunications, the clothing industry is backward, and fashion designers deeply conservative. Apart from the odd technical fibre h ...

Field mice: Human-powered wearable computing by T. Starner IBM Systems Journal Volume 35, Numbers 3 & 4, 1996 MIT Media Lab Batteries add size, weight, and inconvenience to present-day mobile computers. This paper explores the possibility of harnessing the energy expended during the user's everyday actions to generate power for his or her computer, thus eliminating the impediment of batteries. An analysis of power generation through leg motion is presented in depth, and a survey of other me ...

Future Force Warrior May 25, 2004 Tyler Hunt For the first time ever, the Army is rethinking their uniforms, and building new ones from scratch. Wired is running an article on what has been dubbed the Future Force Warrior. They are being designed to reduce weight, and give soldiers a technological advantage in urban environments. The new suits feature enhancements such as "e-textiles," where wires are woven right into the fabric, and night vision integrated into the helmet. Bone-conduction mi ...

Future Watch: Digital Clothing, Fax Pens By: Ashlee Vance PC World August 31, 2000 Imagine walking into a meeting 20 years from now wearing a suit made not of cloth but rather of digital fabric displaying images and text for all to see. Then picture the table in the center of the room as a digital canvas laden with three-dimensional pie charts and emitting audio clips from your company's chief executive officer about last quarter's financial results. Do these scenarios sound feasible? Wel ...

Gadget garment a perfect fit for techies - technology changes thinknig of clothing designers and buyers Byline: ERIC PETERSON Wearables Business LookSmart June 1, 2003 The Harry Potter books might not be that much of a stretch after all. Japanese designers recently came up with an amazing technological advancement in apparel: an invisibility cloak. Last December, Professor Susumu Tachi unveiled the high-tech cloak at a demonstration of camouflage technology at Tokyo University. It makes it ...

Half-keyboards: Now Available, Drivers for Linux Michael Hall All Linux Devices Feb 26, 2001 Part of the challenge wearable computer designers face is designing usable input that preserves the flexibility users will expect while eliminating some of the bulk. Past solutions have involved chording keyboards like the Twiddler and compact keyboards worn on the wrist such as those provided with Xybernaut's wearable computers. IBM has also been working on this issue, and one of the solutions the ...

Hardware, Ready to Wear By: Lincoln Spector PCWorld September 5, 2000 Today's computers can be desktops, laptops, or even palmtops. But are you ready for computer tank tops? The merging of computers and clothing, odd as it sounds, is on the way. Levi Strauss is about to start selling wired jackets with integrated cell phones and MP3 players, and that's just the beginning. In a few years, computerized hats may be as common a sight as cell phones. (See "Future Watch: Digital Clothing, Fax Pe ...

Hearing the customer An IBM team at RTP specializes in creating custom designs By JONATHAN B. COX, Staff Writer The News & Observer Publishing Company Published: Jul 20, 2004 Modified: Jul 21, 2004 6:29 AM RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Inside a locked room at IBM's sprawling Research Triangle Park campus, designers are drawing the future. They're creating gadgets that can improve health care, make music more fun and computers wearable. The designs are IBM's, but the ideas come from its custom ...

hp leads wireless internet revolution ©2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Thanks to industry-leading technology from HP, access to the Internet through public wireless LANs (PwLAN) is quickly becoming as common as ordering your favorite cup of coffee. Public Wireless LANs (PwLAN) provide public venues with "hot spots," where customers have access to affordable and secure high-speed access to e-mail, data, and business-critical applications using virtually any mobile access device ...

IBM demos Linux reference platform for handhelds By Nicolas Mokhoff EE Times 22 January 2003 (11:06 p.m. GMT) NEW YORK — IBM Corp. demonstrated a Linux-based reference design for PDA manufacturers at LinuxWorld here Wednesday (Jan. 22) as part of its effort to move open standards-based Linux and Java into consumer electronics, personal digital assistants and other handheld devices. The move comes on the heels of a similar PDA reference design that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Metrower ...

IBM Gets Fashionable With Wearable Cell Phone BY: Tom Spring PCWorld November 3, 2000 Are Tiffany's and Cartier about to be challenged by IBM? The company once famous for its white shirt-black tie uniforms is leaping into the world of fashion with prototype digital jewelry that could be either the best thing in nerdwear since pocket protectors or one of the most annoying inventions of our time. At a recent high-tech fashion show, IBM gave a sneak peek at a matching set of silver earrings, ...

Infinitely Wearable Computing By Bob Parks WIRED Magizine Issue 5.07 | Jul 1997 The future may soon find Harley-Davidson geeks with calculators embedded in their forearms. Inventor Andrew Singer, however, had medical uses in mind for his recent patent, a programmable "tattoo." The chip implant's LCD readout is visible through the skin. "Medical biosensing," says Singer, "is increasingly practical for chronic and acute conditions" such as diabetes, where the device could read insulin level ...

Integration of Design Education, Research and Practice at Carnegie Mellon University: A Multi-Disciplinary Course in Wearable Computer Design Cristina H. Amon, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design Research Center Susan Finger, Civil &Environmental Engineering and Engineering Design Research Center Daniel P. Siewiorek, School of Computer Science, Computer &Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Design Research Center Asim Smailagic, Engineering Design Research Center Carnegie Mell ...

Is it a computer display or a hand woven textile? INTERNATIONAL FASHION MACHINES IFM's Patent Pending Electric Plaid TM looks like a beautiful, soft textile artwork, but changes color like a computer display. ELECTRIC PLAID PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS! IFM's Electric Plaid is a unique textile display technology and design material. It is used by IFM to create hand woven, sensuous individual artworks, interior design and architectural surfaces. Electric Plaid combines woven electronic circuits, ...

Is the biochip the Mark of the Beast? by Terry Watkins Copyright © 1999 Dial-the-Truth Ministries The biochip technology was originally developed in 1983 for monitoring fisheries, it’s use now includes, over 300 zoos, over 80 government agencies in at least 20 countries, pets (everything from lizards to dogs), electronic "branding" of horses, monitoring lab animals, fisheries, endangered wildlife, automobiles, garment tracking, hazardous waste, and according to the experts – humans (which ...

It's technology you can wear! Far-out designer duds may have practical applications By ANGELA PACIENZA, Canadian Press Canoe Winnipeg Sun Sun, August 1, 2004 It's every fashionista's dream to change outfits by pressing a single button. The Jetsons-like fantasy of skirts that get shorter in hot summer weather or turn red for a night on the town isn't that far off. Fashion designers and computer science engineers have joined forces this summer to develop wearable technology at the Banff New ...

JavaRing: A Wearable Computer by Jakob Nielsen (January 5, 1998) useit.com The JavaRing is a tiny wearable computer with 6 kilobytes of RAM. Six K may not sound like much, but it is 20 percent more memory than the first computer I ever used (back in high school in 1973): an ancient (even at the time) Danish second-generation computer called Gier. The Gier took up an entire room and now I can carry more computer power on my finger. Even 6 K is enough to hold your secret codes, your credit c ...

Jeniuses at Work by Steven Meloan Sun Microsystems June 7, 2000 The cross-platform, network-aware world of Java technology has never been more essential than in the current era of post-PC Internet devices. And on the cutting-edge of this revolution, acting as a testbed of technology, is the Los Gatos Project. Begun by Sun technology evangelists Doug Sutherland and John Wetherill, the project offers a rich and diverse tapestry of interconnected, network-enabled devices. In just the past yea ...

Land Warrior Federation of American Scientists Saturday, August 07, 1999 6:35:42 AM Land Warrior integrates small arms with high-tech equipment enabling ground forces to deploy, fight and win on the battlefields of the 21st century. Land Warrior came about in 1991 when an Army study group recommended the service look at the soldier as a complete weapon system. The first priority in Land Warrior is lethality. The second is survivability and the third, command and control. The program will co ...

Latest on Nanotechnology in the United States The Institute of Nanotechnology 2002 March 2002 MIT wins US Army contract MIT are to conduct a U.S. Army program to develop comabt gear based on nanotechnology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a 5-year contract from the U.S. Army to form a center that develops combat gear using nanotechnology. MIT plans to develop chameleon-like uniforms and materials that could help protect soldiers against detection, threats, bullets and chemica ...

Lifewise Style: Mod à la Jetsons DIGITAL DESIGNS CANOE One, led by Diamond, concerns data transmission. The team is developing technology that would allow clothing to send a signal to a piece of software through a sensor system. Led by Joanna Berzowska, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, a second group is weaving and knitting together conductive yarns and fibres to create new textiles. The weaving techniques help designers work in more "poetic, personal and intimate aspects ...

Light ideas promote easy sleeping By Julie Clothier January 28, 2005 CNN.com LONDON, England (CNN) -- Imagine a duvet cover and pillow that gradually light up as you wake up in the morning. Or how about a lamp where a plant "grows" on the side of it as it slowly gets brighter, or wallpaper whereby a print appears as the volume in the room increases? They might sound far-fetched but these are just some of the ideas that London-based artist Rachel Wingfield has turned into reality. The 26- ...

Listening Large: E-Textiles For Battlefield Sound Thursday, January 02 @ 07:48:04 MST by StaticBeats For decades, electronics have been getting smaller and smaller. Now, engineers are turning to one of mankind's oldest arts -- weaving -- for a cost-effective way of making certain devices bigger and bigger. The STRETCH program is a cooperative venture between the University of Southern California and Virginia Tech that is now testing a prototype "e-textile" -- a special cloth interwoven wit ...

Making Tech Less Tacky by Reena Jana Wired News 02:00 AM Feb. 09, 2001 PT NEW YORK -- You probably wouldn't want to put Dutch designer Hella Jongerius in the same room with the folks who make the machines that most people use at home and work. "Why do computers always look so 'high-tech' and cold?" Jongerius said. "The computer doesn't have to be about punishment." Jongerius is one of six designers commissioned by New York's Museum of Modern Art to create custom-built models of new tools ...

MIT 'cyborgs' bridge gap between man and machine From Correspondent Ann Kellan CNN July 23, 1998 Web posted at: 2:44 p.m. EDT (1444 GMT) BOSTON (CNN) -- For most of us, the computer is that box on the desk, with the keyboard and mouse. But some researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology would like to change that. They're anticipating a future where your computer could be as close as the shirt on your back. As researchers at MIT's media lab look for ways to blur the lines betwe ...

Navigation Technologies Received 30 Patents in 2002 30th Patent Enables Creation of Geographical Bookmarks Directions Magazine. January 09, 2003 Company: NAVTEQ Industry: Wireless / Navigation, Geographic Data Chicago,IL-- Navigation Technologies, a leading provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation, Internet/wireless applications and business solutions, today announced the receipts of 30 patent awards in 2002. To date, the company has received 84 United States patents and several n ...

Need for an Intelligent Wearable Motherboard Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard™: It is hard to place a price on human life. Unfortunately, casualties are associated with combat and sometimes are inevitable. Since medical resources are limited in a combat scenario, there is a critical need to make optimum use of the available resources to minimize such casualties. Therefore, any effort to minimize the loss of human life has a value that is priceless. In a significant departure from the past, t ...

No-Contact Jacket For Women Adam Whiton awhiton@no-contact.com Yolita Nugent ynugent@no-contact.com no-contact.com/ Project date: 2002 +INTRODUCTION According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, three out of four women in the United States will be victims of one violent crime during their lifetime. The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket created to aid women in their struggle for protection from violence. When activated by the wearer, 80,000 volts of low amperage elect ...

Nomadic Radio Network Architecture Nomadic Radio consists of client and remote server components that communicate over the wireless LAN. The Nomadic Clients, developed in Java, operate on Pentium-based wearable PCs (worn on the waist), such as the VIA Wearable from Flexipc and the Toshiba Libretto 50 mini-notebook PC. The current architecture (shown in Figure 2) relies on server processes, written in C and Perl running on Sun SPARCstations, that utilize the telephony infrastructure in the Media ...

Nomadic Radio: Wearable Audio Messaging and Awareness Nomadic Radio is being developed as a unified messaging system that utilizes spatialized audio, speech synthesis and recognition, on a wearable audio platform. A client-server based messaging infrastructure is already in place, and we are adding support for communication and location awareness. Messages such as hourly news broadcasts, voice mail, and email are automatically downloaded to the device throughout the day. The current system oper ...

Novel textile antennas open new frontiers to system designers RFDESIGN Aug 5, 2004 3:37 PM N. Kingstown, R.I.-based high-tech research and development company Applied Radar has developed a new line of electronic textile (or E-textile) antennas that promises lightweight, flexible antennas for OEM wireless and radar products. "Electronic textiles promise novel methods of producing lightweight, flexible antennas with performance surpassing current solutions to address a wide variety of applica ...

Panasonic Toughbook CF-07 Wearable PC T3 This article first appeared in T3 Issue 77 - October 2002 Is it a desktop? Is it a laptop? No, it's Panasonic's first wearable PC. T3 questions whether it falls between two stools So you've got the latest laptop and you use it for email, Web surfing, watching DVD movies, games, video-editing perhaps, and for the odd bit of work if you really must. That's just fine if you're sitting down, but have you ever tried using your laptop while you're standing ...

Pervasive Computing in a Networked World Thomas C. AGOSTON IBM Global Services USA Tatsuro UEDA IBM Global Services Japan Yukari NISHIMURA Nishimura Marketing Services Japan Internet Society (ISOC) Abstract Almost everyone has heard of net-connected soft drink vending machines, but how will we reach the dream of pervasive computing -- a billion people interacting with a million businesses online via a zillion intelligent, ...

Philips, Levi Strauss to Launch Suits With Built-In Electronics August 21, 2000 The WAVE Report According to the Wall Street Journal, Philips NV and fashion manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. are developing jackets with built-in electronic equipment, promising consumers that the days of pockets bulging with phones, audio equipment and wires have come to an end. Called ICD+, the water-resistant outdoor jackets feature built-in MP3 players, headsets, mobile phone handsets and small remote control ...

Quantifying Driver Stress: Developing a System for Collecting and Processing Bio-Metric Signals in Natural Situations Jennifer Healey, Justin Seger and Rosalind Picard Rm E15-389, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 fenn@media.mit.edu, jseger@media.mit.edu, picard@media.mit.edu MIT Media Laboratory To Appear: Proceedings of the Rocky Mountian Bio-Engineering Symposium, April 16-18 1999 Abstract Motivation Capturing Context The Physiological Sensors The Signals Skin Conductance ...

Real Design - Vexed Parka Channel 4. 2002 Get the brief The Vexed Parka is from design company Vexed Generation's first collection in 1995. Their brief was to design a range of London streetwear that met both the practical needs and political concerns of today's urban generation. A mixture of form and function. The designers considered things like personal safety and protection against air pollution. But they also allowed more unusual ideas to influence the design of the Parka, such as civil ...

Sculpted Computational Objects with Smart and Active Computing Materials Margaret A. Orth Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, (May, 2001) © Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2001. All rights reserved. Thesis Advisor: Tod Machover Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab Readers: John Maeda Associate Professor of Design and Computation, MIT Media Lab Neil Gershenfeld Professor of Media Technology, MIT M ...

Shocking new fashion for women Esme Friesen September 10, 2003 new technology The Galt Global Review Researchers at MIT and Advanced Research Apparel have come up with a shocking new jacket design for women – literally. Designed as an anti- assault device for women, this little black sports number carries an 80,000-volt, low amperage current just below the surface shell of the entire jacket. Dubbed the “No-Contact Jacket”, this exo-electric armor protects the wearer by emitting a high vo ...

Shopping by Cell Phone? No Thanks By Elisa Batista 02:00 AM Nov. 25, 2002 PT Students at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, Mo., don’t need to fumble for change in order to buy a Pepsi from local vending machines. All they have to do is punch a number on their cell phone, and they'll be billed for the drink. It's one of dozens of experiments underway nationwide that let consumers make "mobile payments," or m-commerce, on their cell phones and PDAs. And so far it's a complet ...

Simultaneous and Spatial Listening MIT Media Laboratory People using wearable devices must primarily attend to events in their environment, yet need to be notified of background processes or messages. Speech and music in the background and peripheral auditory cues [Gaver89] can provide an awareness of messages or signify events, without requiring one's full attention or disrupting their foreground activity. Audio easily fades into the background, but users are alerted when it changes [Cohen94] ...

Slick as Teflon! Tough as Kevlar! Limber as Lycra! Nonwoven polyethylene polymers are ripping open the fabric of fashion reality. By Andrew Tilin WIRED Magizine Issue 9.10 | Oct 2001 Design Development Concepts U.S.A., a 14-person fashion studio, sits at the top of a grimy flight of stairs off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Flatiron district. Savania Davies-Keiller, a 34-year-old British designer and partner in DDC, greets me inside the cluttered loft. A guy crammed into a corner works at a s ...

Sly-tech clothing makes laundry day a thing of the past By: Judy Hevdejs January 26, 2005 Echo Online You can buy apparel that battles bugs, fights the sun's UV rays, tackles icky perspiration stains, repels water and red wine while resisting wrinkling. There are jackets wired for your MP3 player and sporting a fabric keypad on the sleeve. There are clothes that tame the human scent of hunters. And by February, women will be able to shop for camisoles that soothe with aloe vera. Do the ...

Smallest Web server fits in shirt pocket by Cheri Paquet CNN February 11, 1999 Web posted at: 1:06 p.m. EST (1806 GMT) Prototype "wearable" server is the size of a matchbox. (IDG) -- A Stanford University professor has created what is believed to be the world's smallest Web server, the size of matchbox, which was designed to ultimately be worn by a user. Using off-the-shelf hardware and software, computer science professor Vaughan Pratt invented a Web server measuring less than 1.75 i ...

Smart Clothing Intelligent Textiles First of all it is important to clarify what the word "smart" actually means in this case. Smart can be interpreted as either clever or intelligent, or as fashionable or chic. So it can be said (and it is proved in the following lines) that "smart clothes" are in fact the combination of both of the above: intelligent and fashionable clothing. The term smart clothing includes, in fact, all that clothes made with intelligent textiles or in which they are ap ...

SPACE ELEVaTOR Robert Blincoe The British Council - Design Lab The invention of a new material means the sci-fi dream of space travel has got a little bit closer. In his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise, science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke envisioned a future world with a Space Elevator. His elevator was a tower 23,000 miles high and its purpose was to make access to space, routine, safe and cheap. In 2004 Clarke’s vision suddenly seems less incredible. The discovery of carbon nano ...

T Spaces by P. Wyckoff IBM Systems Journal Volume 37, Number 3, 1998 With the creation of computer networks in the 1970s came the birth of distributed network applications. Since then, there have been many applications that spanned multiple machines, but in the last 20 years no one created a serviceable network middleware package for developing highly effective distributed applications, that is, until now. This paper describes the design and architecture of T Spaces, a project at the IBM ...

Technology Tackles Troublemakers as the War on Crime Heats Up By Jim Stark Directions Magazine (Feb 05, 2003) GPS Tracking is the Wave of the Future for Law Enforcement Authorities He has been on the run for over a year. Hiding in caves, mountaintops, and countrysides, Osama Bin Laden is America's most wanted. As U.S. military forces vigilantly track and monitor his every move to try to capture him and his henchmen, arguably the most effective weapon in their arsenal is global positionin ...

The Challenges and Opportunities of Using Textiles in Product Design Welsh Joint Education Committee The long term objective of the Wales Regional Technology Plan is to promote a "culture of innovation" in Wales. This exhibition provides a way forward for WJEC students, like yourselves, to make a contribution and to get your achievements recognised at National level. Think about the title of this event – INNOVATION AWARDS 2002 ...... Innovation ...... Innovation ........ what does it mean ...

Replaced by TR #355 This is the original version as distributed widely in early 1994. The earliest version was distributed in the Media Lab in 1993. A postscript version added images in June 1995. Unpublished paper meant for the popular press The Cyborgs are Coming or The Real Personal Computers by Thad Starner [cyborg@media.mit.edu] (submitted to Wired) People look at me strangely when I walk down the street these days. However, I'm not particularly sur ...

The Poles Wearable Expedition Human Edge Tech June 20, 2001 1. Objectives Mission: Unassisted skiing expedition from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, using wearable computing and testing new software to transmit images. Duration: 62 days Members: 2 Objectives: 1. Operate and carry wearable computing in severe conditions 2. Send images from the central Polar area, using non-stationary equipment Results: 1. The wearable units held up (for defects-see below) over entire exp ...

Charmed Technology - Pressroom USA Today: "Today's Cyborgs Get an Eyeful" by Janet Kornblum July 1 , 2001 Thad Starner is lying flat on his back on his office couch, staring at the ceiling. Don't bother him. He's working. If you were to walk in on him, you might not know that - at first. But a closer look would reveal the signs: The fingers of his left hand are gliding over a funny little one-handed keyboard called a Twiddler. His glasses aren't just ordinary help-you-see glasses; attached t ...

Turning pervasive computing into mediated spaces by W. Mark IBM Systems Journal Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 With pervasive computing, we envision a future in which computation becomes part of the environment. The computer forms (workstation, personal computer, personal digital assistant, game player) through which we now relate to computation will occupy only a small niche in this new computational world. Our relationship to pervasive computing will differ radically from our current relations ...

Tutorial on Designing for Wearability Francine Gemperle and Peter Sellar Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA gemperle@cmu.edu, pete@sellar.org http://www.wearablegroup.org ETH Zurich ABSTRACT At the Second International Symposium on Wearable Computing we presented a paper titled Design for Wearability [1]. In this paper we discussed a set of guidelines for designing wearable products to fit the three dimensional shapes of the dynamic human body. This paper also pres ...

Unplugged – Mobilizing PowerUnplugged – Mobilizing PowerUnplugged – Mobilizing PowerUnplugged – Mobilizing Power : body 2005 INDEX Renewable Energy This project is based on renewable energy with the prospect of a sustainable design. We have invented a product exploiting the earth’s most important and non-polluting energy source: sunlight. As designers we see it as our mission to participate in the debate concernig consumption of resources. Risø National Laboratory invest an important amou ...

Wearable Computer Systems for Affective Computing The unique needs of an affective computing system present challenges to designers of hardware as well as software. We expect to build systems that maintain not only constant sensing contact with the user, but also contact via more traditional user interface paradigms. One solution to these hardware design challenges that we are investigating is the wearable computer. Several research projects in Affective Wearable systems are currently underway, ...

Wearable computers about to hit the racks The Taipei Times SMART CLOTHES: A US$484,000 project involving an industrial designer, a clothing designer and Pioneer Corp will allow consumers to wear a computer on their sleeve AFP , TOKYO Monday, Dec 10, 2001,Page 21 Naoki Harasawa is a industrial designer, Michie Sone is a fashion designer. The two have pooled their talents to create a range of wearable personal computers embedded in trendy everyday clothes. This meeting of fashion and elect ...

Wearable Computing FAQ This file was last modified on Wednesday 31 June 1998. Basic Information Technical Information Technical Issues Biological Issues Social Issues Forums and Other Sources On the Internet Hard Copy Meta-FAQ 1. Basic Information What is a wearable computer, anyway? [Mann|MIT] Wearable computing facilitates a new form of human-computer interaction based on a small body-worn computer system that is always on and always ready and accessible. In this regard, th ...

Wearable computing in jewelry? By Neil Kleinman Pen Computing May 2001 The mention of wearable computers conjures images of devices strapped to the wrist, battery packs strapped to a belt and a display built into eyeglasses. Along with this complement of devices are cables that turn a person into a walking network. Computers that can be worn are thus not the same as computers in what we wear. Researchers at IBM Laboratories have begun to envision computing devices that can be embedded in jew ...

Wearable Electronics © 2003 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. The challenge In 1995, Philips Design showed the world, through its project Vision of the Future, the first idea of wearable electronics. Wearable electronics, as opposed to wearable computers, are not portable miniaturized pieces of hardware but rather garments with embedded functionalities. These textile materials are able to transport and display data (conductive fibres, flexible displays, embroidered switches etc). The cha ...

Wearable PC breaks from IBM Japan DESIGN NEWS 244 '98.12.10 The roles of the design department of IBM Japan can be divided into the interrelated fields of 1) design management, 2) design production, and 3) design research. The most important of these three roles is design research, which involves carrying out research on products and services for the coming era and formulation of design strategy in Japan. These activities are generally carried out collectively by the strategic design division ...

Charmed Technology - Pressroom Information Week: "Wearable Technology: A New Layer Of Security?" By Tischelle George, Oct. 31, 2001 Wearable technology may play a big role in security and disaster-relief operations in the future, speakers at the Tech-U-Wear said. Technology in clothing or on an ID badge will play a big role in security, surveillance, and disaster-relief operations in the future, a panel of speakers said Wednesday at the Tech-U-Wear conference in New York. Since the Sept. 1 ...

Wearable User Interface White Paper Edward Keyes, MIT January 12, 2000 This white paper is an ongoing project. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact the author at wearables-at-edkeyes-dot-org. Introduction and Motivation The Archetype Wearable Design Goals User Interface Guidelines Implementation Issues Conclusions Introduction and Motivation Okay, you've finally gotten your wearable computer all built and running happily. Now the question arises of what software yo ...

Wearables: wearing the future Adem Sehovic (translated by Miranda Drew) GSMBOX April 11, 2003 There was a time when we dressed like sailors. What are we going to wear? It’s important to ask ourselves, now that the most important research centres in the world are going crazy creating prototypes for a new generation of hi-tech clothes. They are called “wearables”, because they remake the concept of “wearable electronics”, wearing electronics as if they were a brand name garment. The idea ...

What The Well-Dressed CIO Could Be Wearing November 15, 2004 BY DANIEL J. HORGAN CIO Magazine Fashion is a tricky art to master. Styles, fabrics, colors—each of these elements of the well-dressed executive can change indiscriminately, leaving you looking tacky before you can say "fashion emergency." CIOs are not known for their fashion sense. Quite the opposite, in fact. The perception of the IT top dog as stylistically inept spawns from age-old images of tech nerds with pocket protectors ...

What Your Clothes Say About You By: Elisa Batista Wired News March 2003 In a move wireless industry analysts say will infringe on customers' privacy, clothing designer Benetton plans to weave radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes worldwide. The chips will help the Italian clothing manufacturer cut costs by eliminating the need for workers to take inventory by manually scanning individual items of clothing. It will also protect the garments against theft, analysts ...

Where Artists' Dreams Come True by Julia Gedeon Matusky photo by Christian Fleury Concordia University Magazine You watch a dancer leap onstage and into her routine. A larger figure duplicates her movements precisely — but it can’t be her shadow; the sequence is different. Her counterpart is actually a computerized image programmed with the dancer’s every possible motion. Later, at a restaurant, you watch two virtual characters interact spontaneously onscreen according to their preprogra ...

Why Wearable Audio Computing? In an information rich environment, people access a multitude of content such as news, weather, stock reports, and data from a variety of information sources. People increasingly communicate via services such as email, fax, and telephony. Such a growth in information and communication options is fundamentally changing the workplace and "beginning to have a seismic effect on people's professional and personal lives" (see the recent Pitney Bowes Study, April 8, 1997) ...

Windows Into Alice's Wonderland A head-mounted three-dimensional display Early experiments with head-mounted displays centered on input from servo-controlled cameras which would move with the user's head, and thus move the user's field of view. In one early project at Bell Helicopter Company, the head-mounted display was coupled with an infrared camera that would give military helicopter pilots the ability to land at night in rough terrain. An infrared camera, which moved as the pilot's head ...

Wireless networked digital devices: A new paradigm for computing and communication by T. G. Zimmerman IBM Systems Journal Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 The proliferation of mobile computing devices including laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wearable computers has created a demand for wireless personal area networks (PANs). PANs allow proximal devices to share information and resources. The mobile nature of these devices places unique requirements on PANs, such as low power consum ...

Without Thought: e-Fashion for IDEO Design exploration Every year, the Diamond Design Management Network sponsors design exploration workshops as a way of sharing philosophy and values with the design community. Because rapidly accelerating technology is causing formerly bulky hardware to seemingly disappear into thin air, designers have a tremendous opportunity to predict future innovations. This workshop sought to explore the ways in which we can shape technology and technology can shap ...

Witnet completes co-marketing agreement with Xybernaut(R) © 2003 Canada NewsWire Ltd. Mobilick Software Combined With Wearable Computers to Provide Remote Application Management FAIRFAX, VA, Jan. 27 /CNW/ - Witnet International, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Xybernaut Corporation (XYBR). Xybernaut is a world-leading innovator in wireless mobile computers known as wearable computers. Xybernaut provides wearable comput ...

World's Smallest Hard Drive Now Bigger: 4GB One-Inch Disk Tech Zone 2003-01-06 | posted by Chairman Steve Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced plans to squeeze four gigabytes of data onto the 1-inch Microdrive, the world's smallest hard disk drive. With considerable advances in miniaturization technology, Hitachi engineers have overcome numerous magnetic recording challenges associated with developing hard disk drives of this size. The 4GB Microdrive is expected to be availabl ...

X.com Turns Your Mobile Phone Into a Wallet Internet Payments Leader Launches First Service for Web-enabled Phones PALO ALTO, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- X.com, the world’s first and largest Web-based payments network, further expanded its reach and utility today by becoming the first leading online payments provider to offer its service by mobile phone. Via the Internet browser on their Web-enabled mobile phones, individuals can now access X.com’s PayPal site (www.paypal.com) - the mo ...

You Are Cyborg By Hari Kunzru WIRED Magazine Issue 5.02 | Feb 1997 For Donna Haraway, we are already assimilated. The monster opens the curtains of Victor Frankenstein's bed. Schwarzenegger tears back the skin of his forearm to display a gleaming skeleton of chrome and steel. Tetsuo's skin bubbles as wire and cable burst to the surface. These science fiction fevered dreams stem from our deepest concerns about science, technology, and society. With advances in medicine, robotics, and AI, ...

`Smart clothing': Making multimedia computers and wireless communication more personal --- a paradigm shift in wearable computing. Where published: @ARTICLE{manncacm, author = "Mann, Steve", title = "Smart Clothing: The shift to wearable computing", journal = "Communications of the {ACM}", year = 1996, month = "August", vol = "39,8", pages = "23-24", } `Smart clothing' --- the combination of mobile multimedia, wireless communication, and wearable computing --- p ...

“Smart Systems”: Wearable Integration of Intelligent Technology Lucy Dunne, Susan Ashdown, Eric McDonald Cornell University lucy.dunne@cornell.edu Abstract This research explores a wearable application of available electronic solutions to the specific needs of recreationally athletic individuals. The design process for technologically-augmented solutions, the process of integrating electronic components into wearable garments, and the social acceptance of wearable technology are investig ...