IBM: A Wearable World Beyond Your Clamshell
News As innovative as InfoPortal may be, wearable PCs carry more of a science fiction kind of appeal. Big Blue is experimenting with a number of unusual designs, including wearable PCs, watch computers and even a computer sewn into clothing that...
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
Headset Improves Mobility Of Parkinson's Patients
News The group purchased five Xybernaut wearable PCs after first testing notebooks. The headset overlays computer-generated geometric shapes over what the patient sees, giving them visual cues that help navigation, according to Xybernaut Corporation, a...
[February 28, 2003, 15:32]
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]
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? In August, Ravisent was one of 14 companies to form the PC DTV Promoters Group, whose charter involves accelerating the development of digital TV on PCs.
[September 20, 2000, 14:20]
Wi-Fi Trousers, Edible Phones And Mobiles For Lefties
News This is only the first of a series of wearable device partnerships we intend to sign in the coming months," revealed Lon Chaney, head of device partnerships at The Cloud. The Cloud, Europe's largest Wi-Fi network, announced a "ground-breaking...
[April 1, 2004, 14:10]
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]
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. Taiwan's First International Computer (FIC), which makes own...
[November 6, 2001, 16:32]
Siemens Joins Fashion-phone Craze
News Nokia also markets wearable phones, a representative said. In April of last year, Sprint PCS unveiled the 4NE1, a phone that can be worn as a necklace. Phone maker Siemens said on Monday that it has elevated the cell phone to a fashion statement.
[January 28, 2003, 8:09]
Photos: Intel's Science Fair
News Intel's Tanzeem Choudhury shows off a wearable sensor on her left shoulder that one day might help her automatically upload information to her Twitter or Facebook accounts. Intel claims it has no desire to abandon the chip market for the Web 2.0...
[June 25, 2007, 8:40]
Xircom Sets Sights On Consumer Gadgets
News Xircom said it would develop the Rex into a more secure and usable device over time but is already excited about the next-generation cards it refers to as "unconscious wearable information devices". Xircom believes the USB market will expand...
[September 29, 1999, 10:11]
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]
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]
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. Other applications he suggested: streaming your collection of audio or video to televisions and...
[September 16, 2003, 10:25]
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]
Six Big Trends Of Comdex '01
News Laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, wearable computers, and their derivatives will be abundant this month in Vegas. Just as LANs exponentially increased the power of the PCs, wireless connectivity will fuel possibilities for mobile devices.
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
