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Wearable PC Nears Commercial Launch
News Hitachi has promised that its wearable PC will begin shipping to customers in America and Japan this spring. However, Europeans will have to wait before they get the chance to buy the fashionable device, as those who are marketing the wearable PC...
[January 18, 2002, 12:23]
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]
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]
IBM Test-drives Transformer Computer
News 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 make possible a more economical wearable computer.
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
Fifteen Years Of ThinkPad Highs And Lows
News Wearable ThinkPads, Transmeta-based ThinkPads, methane-powered ThinkPads, flaming ThinkPads, butterfly ThinkPads and even — briefly — coloured ThinkPads. A year later, IBM was showing off its prototype of a wearable ThinkPad, "shrunk to the...
[July 20, 2007, 14:56]
The VOICe Learning Edition
Downloads Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like.
[January 10, 2008, 10:39]
CeBIT: Belt Up For The 21st Century
News Making its debut at CeBIT 99 today, is the the wearable, wireless PC. The wireless ViA II PC, developed by ViA and National Semiconductor company Cyrix, can hook up to a mobile phone and the Internet.
[March 18, 1999, 16:59]
Webpad Maker Switches To Windows
News Elsewhere in Asia, Korea's Samsung has released a Web tablet, while Japan's Hitachi has launched a wearable PC based on Windows CE and Casio has announced a PDA based on Windows CE 3.0. Web tablets generally have failed to carve out a significant...
[November 6, 2001, 16:32]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News I was trying to write about "wearable computers". And he was wearing a PC. Last month, over in Las Vegas, desperately trying to get some male model in combat gear to "look nerdy" for my digital camera, it suddenly struck me that this PC business is...
[December 14, 1996, 7:00]
News Schmooze: Tech Economy Suffers As Bill Gates Heads For Fantasyland
News All hail the cloth keyboard, which apparently can be dipped in a glass of milk without harm, and the wearable PC, which will be in shops by Christmas, unless of course they cancel Christmas this year.
[July 27, 2001, 17:40]
Fossil Unearths Wrist PDA
News Several manufacturers have set their sights on introducing wearable PDAs or mobile phones, including Samsung, which has won US regulatory approval for a Dick Tracy-style wrist phone/PDA combination. Fossil will sell a Pocket PC-compatible model...
[April 30, 2002, 17:08]
Comdex: Speech Recognition Software Talking Up A Storm
News IBM ViaVoice technology is showing up in products across the Comdex floor, from banking to the wearable computer. And in perhaps the funkiest use of the technology, ViaVoice appears in Xybernaut Corp.s new wearable computer -- a palm-sized device...
[November 17, 1998, 9:17]
IBM's Pen-based Notebook Runs Dry
News IBM has produced several, more radical, computer designs, including a wearable ThinkPad and a watch computer. Sometimes the keyboard is mightier than the pen: IBM has discontinued its ThinkPad TransNote, a portable PC that also captures notes...
[February 5, 2002, 9:51]
Intel Touts Month-long Battery Life For Mobiles
News Ron Smith, vice president and general manager of Intel's Wireless Computing and Communications Group, predicted the process would enable such futuristic form factors as wearable computers and video watch phones.
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
What's Next In Couch-potato Tech?
News Quick: What's as collectable as a Pokemon card but can run on your Palm PDA or wearable computer? Another company touting its forthcoming convergence wares was Pennslyvania-based Ravisent Technologies, maker of software that is aimed at turning PC...
[September 20, 2000, 14:20]
News Schmooze: Goodbye Segway, Hello Flying Exoskeleton
News Wearable PC nears commercial launch Of course, an ideal means of transportation would be to have a helicopter/jet pack AND a wearable computer, so that you could log onto the Big Brother 3 Web site while wafting your way above the gridlock on the...
[January 18, 2002, 13:25]
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]
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]
The ThinkPad At 15
Blog There was a wearable ThinkPad too, somewhere along the line. Back in July 1992, I was working as Production Editor for Ziff-Davis's newly-launched UK edition of PC Magazine, and didn't have time to draw breath, let alone notice that IBM had...
[July 19, 2007, 16:24]
Tiny Toshiba Drives To Offer Storage Aplenty
News The diminutive 10GB and 20GB drives, announced on Wednesday, will mean cavernous storage for a range of mobile-computing devices, including music players, personal digital assistants, wearable computers and even laptops.
[January 16, 2002, 16:33]
