Hitachi Created the Wearable Internet Appliance, a Small Device With Great Power-Management Capabilities That Delivers a Desktop-Like Viewing Experience
White Papers Hitachi engineers had a concept that would help the electronics giant maintain its leadership role - an Internet device that could deliver a big-screen viewing experience from a very small package. To create this innovative device, which gives its...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Wearable PC to hit shops by Christmas
News The two companies are committed to creating a mass-market version of Xybernaut's Wearable Internet Appliance (WIA), which will hit US shops before Christmas. Hitachi is planning to launch a wearable computer by the end of this year.
[July 26, 2001, 11:35]
Wearable PC nears commercial launch
News Japanese customers will buy the wearable PC from Hitachi, which calls it the WIA-100NB Wearable Internet Appliance. Hitachi has promised that its wearable PC will begin shipping to customers in America and Japan this spring.
[January 18, 2002, 12:23]
LinuxWorld: Linux gets Bluetoothed
News Chandra Narayanaswami, manager of wearable computing solutions at IBM, says that open source software such as Linux is ideally suited to this type of project, making it possible to develop wireless solutions at speed.
[February 2, 2001, 7:59]
