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Wearable PC Nears Commercial Launch
News The wearable PC includes a head-mounted display unit that lets the user view a high-resolution image, while the rest of the device is small and light enough to slip into a pocket. Both companies plan to sell the wearable PC, which was on display at...
[January 18, 2002, 12:23]
Headset Improves Mobility Of Parkinson's Patients
News The headset overlays computer-generated geometric shapes over what the patient sees, giving them visual cues that help navigation, according to Xybernaut Corporation, a Fairfax, Virginia-based maker of wearable computers.
[February 28, 2003, 15:32]
Wearable Mobile Phones Hit US Market
News Wearable mobile phones for the fashion-conscious have been in the works for years, with companies like IBM working on its own version of an earring phone, and Motorola opening a design centre in Milan, Italy, to capture the perfect fashionable look.
[April 12, 2002, 10:26]
IBM Test-drives Transformer Computer
News Some of its latest include the wearable ThinkPad and a wristwatch computer. The Meta Pad also aims to solve some of the problems of PDAs, such as lack of computing power, file compatibility and the need to synchronise data with a PC, as well as...
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
Wearable Computers Soon To Be Everywhere
News Wearable computing has so far been little more than a curiosity, but new technology and falling prices will mean dramatic growth for such products in the next few years, according to a new report. The Global Market for Wearable Computers, published...
[September 5, 2002, 13:47]
Head-mounted Displays Still A Headache
News The latest testing by ZDNet UK Reviews has found that the truly wearable computer display -- a long-held vision of the IT industry -- is still some distance from reality. Eyetop is a pair of spectacles that contains a tiny LCD display for...
[August 22, 2003, 17:35]
Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux
White Papers Using wearable computers, it is possible to take augmented reality software outdoors and visualise data that only exists in a computer. This paper describes the concept of augmented reality, the process of drawing virtual images over the real world...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Wearable GIS For Homeland Security Applications: Accomplishments, Prospects And Research Issues
White Papers Under the NSF-funded Digital Government Initiative Project Battuta valuable experience has been gained about the design, construction and use of a wearable system that combines basic GIS functionality and augmented reality display to assist human...
[January 21, 2005, 2:00]
News Burst: IBM Debuts Wearable PC
News Envisioned as a tool for maintenance, installation, and repair personnel, the wearable PC can display wiring diagrams, videos, and other information while leaving the user's hands free. PC industry giant IBM unveiled an ultra-portable PC at its IBM...
[September 18, 1998, 10:01]
Wearable PC To Hit Shops By Christmas
News Hitachi is planning to launch a wearable computer by the end of this year. The Japanese consumer electronics group has teamed up with Xybernaut, which specialises in developing wearable technology. The two companies are committed to creating a mass...
[July 26, 2001, 11:35]
IBM: A Wearable World Beyond Your Clamshell
News IBM's original wearable computer design, released in the late 1990s, featured a ThinkPad 570 condensed to fit on a belt, with the display built into an eyepiece worn on the head. As innovative as InfoPortal may be, wearable PCs carry more of a...
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
News Burst: IBM Struts Its Stuff In Japan
News Also shown, the wearable ThinkPad prototype is a notebook shrunk to the footprint of a 3Com Palm with a 233MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 340MB hard drive and voice-activated interface. The Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display is an advanced flat...
[September 21, 1998, 13:22]
Video Projector On A Chip Focuses On Eyeballs
News The display is designed to be held up to the eye, either as a screen in a handheld device or as part of a wearable headset. It has demonstrated an 800 x 600 pixel full-colour display that has just four active components and can be integrated into a...
[February 12, 2002, 15:40]
Time To Buy IBM's Linux Watch?
News The display crams an array of 640 by 480 pixels into a watch face just 0.65 inches tall by 0.87 inches wide, said Chandra Narayanaswami, manager of the IBM Research Division's wearable computing program.
[March 26, 2001, 8:23]
Slip On A Bulletproof PC
News That's the promise Xybernaut, a specialist in "wearable" PCs, is making from the partnership it announced on Thursday with Second Chance Body Armor, the leading US manufacturer of body armour for law enforcement and the military.
[May 31, 2002, 8:42]
CeBIT 2000: Toshiba Shows Off Techno-toys
News Electronics giant Toshiba has gone gadget mental at this year's CeBIT technology show in Hannover, Germany, showing off a paraphernalia of toys for geeks including a laptop, a wearable MP3 player and even computing binoculars.
[February 25, 2000, 16:32]
Siemens Introduces Talking Therapy For Sick Machines
News Engineers working on the equipment have a wearable computer with a USB camera, a hands-free headset and 802.11b wireless networking. By pointing the camera at the tag and asking questions, they identify the equipment in a central database and...
[January 25, 2002, 13:20]
Personal Server Takes Your Data With You
News The Personal Server would be much more acceptable to people than other wearable computer ideas, because it would be invisible in normal use, he said. Instead, says Want, it makes sense to carry your data around in a self-contained package and use...
[September 16, 2003, 10:25]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News I was trying to write about "wearable computers". A one-eyed Terminator style appearance can be yours (as you mince down the catwalk) with a variety of miniature display units blocking one ocular input zone.
[December 14, 1996, 7:00]
IBM Chases A PC's Soul
News Right now, the product is in the testing phase, but SoulPad contributor Ramon Caceres, a staff member at the Wearable Computing division of IBM Research, said the technology could be licensed to hardware manufacturers that could make them into...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
