MIT Students: Wearable Computer

Video of one current Wearable Computer design

http://www.wired.com/video/latest-v...ter/10288173001

MIT Students: Wearable Computer
Added: Feburary 5, 2009
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer

MIT students have been playing around with this concept for a while, and we've seen the essential ideas in movies, commercials, video games, the news, military tech, etc - each incarnation widening the possible applications & flexibility of computing.

Outside of the traditional screen, mouse, & keyboard (or cell-phone touch screen) computer interface, this version of the wearable computer consists of projector & camera. 

Hand gestures involving the index and thumb on each hand operate the user interface, as in the 2002 movie, Minority Report*.  Consider a touch screen, but instead using free space in which to perform the motions.

Use a wall as a screen: draw on the projected image with your finger.

Take a picture by making a box w/ your hand and a camera mounted on your head. 

Dial your cell phone on the palm of your hand.

Definitely check out this current version of the wearable computer in the video at the wired link:

http://www.wired.com/video/latest-v...ter/10288173001

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* Minority Report still:

Keyboard Pants Concept

MarsNova wrote:

haha he gots bunny ears

Isn't it a blast from the past in regards to what technology a college could buy in 1980 compared to today?

The borg guy from 1980 must not be digital-TV compliant.  I hope he realizes that resistance to the DTV switch is futile.

mantra777 wrote:

Keyboard Pants Concept

That's really awesome, I haven't seen that.  The designer, Erik De Nijs, had a really great idea.  I wouldn't suspect it to be machine washable, but I guess if you spilled coffee on yourself getting the stain out would be a secondary concern compared to possible electrocution.

I can feel the corny pick up lines coming. "Hey, touch the space key and see what happens."

ath3na wrote:

MarsNova wrote:

haha he gots bunny ears

Isn't it a blast from the past in regards to what technology a college could buy in 1980 compared to today?

The borg guy from 1980 must not be digital-TV compliant.  I hope he realizes that resistance to the DTV switch is futile.

mantra777 wrote:

Keyboard Pants Concept

That's really awesome, I haven't seen that.  The designer, Erik De Nijs, had a really great idea.  I wouldn't suspect it to be machine washable, but I guess if you spilled coffee on yourself getting the stain out would be a secondary concern compared to possible electrocution.

That would make watching porn kinda hard to do. No pun intended. 

As for the spilling and washing its probably coated in somekinda liquid resistance stuff, which has been around for a long long time.  I remember in the late 90s they had T-Shirts that would play music or talk if you pushed buttons on it and you could wash those things just had to take teh battery pack out of it.

MarsNova wrote:

I remember in the late 90s they had T-Shirts that would play music or talk if you pushed buttons on it and you could wash those things just had to take teh battery pack out of it.

I almost forgot about those - especially at Christmas time. 

That kinda reminds me of something else too: Kanye's retro man-from-the-future style.

I came across alot of this kind of a thing yesterday:

On the other side of the spectrum, these wearable computers we are familiar with look deadly serious, of course:

Looks like we are getting closer to BladeRunner type of stuff. Gulf War 1 the military started using and developing GPS and Digital Cameras for the war. Now these things were big like the size of bricks and the digital cameras were about 720KiloPixels Yep not even megs then. Now fast foward ten years plus we got 10.1 MP cameras that fit in your palm GPS aka Nav is cheap and tons of people have it in there cars. Now with this current war I can tell you from personal experience that the Military is using Robots heavily and remote sensors of human movements. So in 10 years from now I do think we will start to see the first Irobots from apple in the house. Big and blucky at first