Wearable computers are computers that are worn on the body. They have been applied to areas such as behavioral modeling, health monitoring systems, information technologies and media development. Government organizations, military, and health professionals have all incorporated wearable computers into their daily operations. Wearable computers are especially useful for applications that require computational support while the user's hands, voice, eyes or attention are actively engaged with the physical environment. A Lego RCX Computer is an example of an embedded computer used to control mechanical devices. ...

Wristwatch videoconferencing system running GNU Linux, later featured in Linux Journal and presented at ISSCC2000

One of the main features of a wearable computer is consistency. There is a constant interaction between the computer and user, ie. there is no need to turn the device on or off. Another feature is the ability to multi-task. It is not necessary to stop what you are doing to use the device; it is augmented into all other actions. These devices can be incorporated by the user to act like a prosthetic. It can therefore be an extension of the user’s mind and/or body. Download high resolution version (1024x1539, 87 KB)wristwatch computer from http://wearcam. ... Download high resolution version (1024x1539, 87 KB)wristwatch computer from http://wearcam. ...

Such devices look far different from the traditional cyborg image of wearable computers, but in fact these devices are becoming more powerful and more wearable all the time. The most extensive military program in the wearables arena is the US Army's Land Warrior system, which will eventually be merged into the Future Force Warrior system. Seven of Nine, a Borg in Star Trek: Voyager The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and mechanical (synthetic) parts. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Land Warrior is a United States Army program that uses a combination of commercial, off-the-shelf technology (COTS) and current-issue military gear and equipment designed to: Integrate small arms with high-tech equipment Provide communications and command and control at the infantry soldier level Look at the individual... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

History

Depending on how broadly one defines both wearable and computer, the first wearable computer could be as early as the 1500s with the invention of the pocket watch or even the 1200s with the invention of eyeglasses. The first device that would fit the modern-day image of a wearable computer was constructed in 1961 by the mathematician Edward O. Thorp, better known as the inventor of the theory of card-counting for blackjack, and Claude E. Shannon, who is best known as "the father of information theory." The system was a concealed cigarette-pack sized analog computer designed to predict roulette wheels. A data-taker would use microswitches hidden in his shoes to indicate the speed of the roulette wheel, and the computer would indicate an octant to bet on by sending musical tones via radio to a miniature speaker hidden in a collaborators ear canal. The system was successfully tested in Las Vegas in June 1961, but hardware issues with the speaker wires prevented them from using it beyond their test runs. Their wearable was kept secret until it was first mentioned in Thorp's book Beat the Dealer (revised ed.) in 1966 and later published in detail in 1969. The 1970s saw rise to similar roulette-prediction wearable computers using next-generation technology, in particular a group known as Eudaemonic Enterprises that used a CMOS 6502 microprocessor with 5K RAM to create a shoe-computer with inductive radio communications between a data-taker and better (Bass 1985). ---- Events and Trends Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Spanish arrive in present-day Gulf of Mexico External links 1500-1524 Events 1500-1509 Events Categories: 1500s ... A gold pocket watch An early reference to the pocket watch is in a letter in November 1462 from the Italian clockmaker Bartholomew Manfredi to the Marchese di Manta, where he offers him a pocket clock better than that belonging to the Duke of Modena. ... Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century Decades: 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s Years: 1200 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205 1206 1207 1208 1209 Events and Trends 1200 University of Paris receives charter from Philip II of France 1202-1204 Fourth Crusade - diverted to... Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Edward Oakley Thorp is famous for his book Beat the Dealer in which he was the first to prove a mathematical system for beating blackjack by card counting. ... Blackjack! The face cards (Jack, Queen, and King) and the ten count as 10 points, and the Ace counts as 1 or 11. ... Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... A bundle of optical fiber. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology in 1975. ...

In 1967, Hubert Upton developed an analogue wearable computer that included an eyeglass-mounted display to aid lip reading. Using high and low-pass filters, the system would determine if a spoken phoneme was a fricative, stop consonant, voiced-fricative, voiced stop consonant, or simply voiced. An LED mounted on ordinary eyeglasses illuminated to indicate the phoneme type. The 1980s saw the rise of more general-purpose wearable computers. In 1981 Steve Mann designed and built a backpack-mounted 6502-based computer to control flash-bulbs, cameras and other photographic systems. Mann went on to be an early and active researcher in the wearables field, especially known for his 1994 creation of the Wearable Wireless Webcam (Mann 1997). In 1989 Reflection Technology marketed the Private Eye head-mounted display, which scanned a vertical array of LEDs across the visual field using a vibrating mirror. 1993 also saw Columbia University's augmented-reality system known as KARMA: Knowledge-based Augmented Reality for Maintenance Assistance. Users would wear a Private Eye display over one eye, giving an overlay effect when the real world was viewed with both eyes open. KARMA would overlay wireframe schematics and maintenance instructions on top of whatever was being repaired. For example, graphical wireframes on top of a laser printer would explain how to change the paper tray. The system used sensors attached to objects in the physical world to determine their locations, and the entire system ran tethered from a desktop computer (Feiner 1993). 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Lip reading, also known as lipreading, speech reading, or speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue with information provided by the context, language, and any residual hearing. ... In human language, a phoneme is a set of phones (speech sounds or sign elements) that are cognitively equivalent. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. ... Phoneticians define phonation as use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ... External links LEd Category: TeX ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Self-portrait of Mann in 1981 with wearable computing apparatus. ... The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology in 1975. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... an HMD A head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device that a person wears on the head to have video information directly displayed in front of the eyes. ... External links LEd Category: TeX ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...

Commercial Viability

The commercialization of general-purpose wearable computers, as led by companies such as Xybernaut, CDI and ViA Inc, has thus far met with limited success. Publicly-traded Xybernaut tried forging alliances with companies such as IBM and Sony in order to make wearable computing widely available, but in 2005 their stock was delisted and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid financial scandal and federal investigation. In 1998 Seiko marketed the Ruputer, a computer in a (fairly large) wristwatch, to mediocre returns. In 2001 IBM developed and publicly displayed two prototypes for a wristwatch computer running Linux, but the product never came to market. In 2002 Fossil, Inc. announced the Fossil Wrist PDA, which ran the Palm OS. Its release date was set for summer of 2003, but was delayed several times and was finally made available on January 5, 2005. Xybernaut Corporation is a provider of wearable / mobile computing hardware, software and services, bringing communications and full-function computing power in a hands-free design. ... now. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code governs the process of reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. ... Seiko Corporation ) (TYO: 8050 ) is a Japanese watch company. ... The Ruputer was a wristwatch-sized wearable computer developed in 1998 by Seiko. ... now. ... Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Fossil, Inc. ... Fossil Wrist PDA is a Personal Digital Assistant designed to take the place of a wristwatch. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Evidence of the allure of the wearable computer and the weak market acceptance is evident with market leading Panasonic Computer Solutions Company's failed product in this market. Panasonic has specialized in mobile computing with their Toughbook line for over 10 years and has extensive market research into the field of portable, wearable computing products ^[1]. In 2002, Panasonic introduced a wearable brick computer coupled with a handheld or armworn touchscreen. The brick would communicate wirelessly to the screen, and concurrently the brick would communicate wirelessly out to the internet or other networks. The products were named the Toughbook 07 and the MDWD. According to a spokesmen at Panasonic US Distributer USAT Corp., the Toughbook 07 brick computer never gained market traction as it was hampered by a relatively slow ultra-low voltage processor. The wearable brick was quietly pulled from the market in 2005, while the screen evolved to a thin client touchscreen used with a handstrap. This product, the Toughbook 08 is larger and less likely to be worn on the body, and provides only for mechanical data entry (touchscreen, barcode, or card swipe). This thin-client approach does suggest a commercially viable solution to the combined problems of size, processing power and battery life for wearable computers. Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Toughbook is the trademarked brand name owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial and marketed by their international brand name Panasonic. ...

Issues

Wearable computers have led to an increase in micro-management. That is, a society characterized by total surveillance and a greater influence of media and technologies. Surveillance has impacted more personal aspects of our daily lives and has been used to punish civilians for seemingly petty crimes. There is a concern that this increased used of cameras has affected more personal and private moments in our lives as a form of social control.

In Fiction

• In Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, a minority of people known as "gargoyles" wear computers for information gathering.
• In the manga and anime Dragon Ball series, the Scouter is a Head-mounted display worn over one eye to determine the relative strength of combatants.
• In the 2004 Robin Williams film Final Cut an implant called a 'Zoe' chip was placed into new-born infants so that their entire lives would be recorded and could be replayed after their death.
• In the 2006 Vernor Vinge novel Rainbows End wearable computing is ubiquitous and privacy as we know it is gone.
• Cookie from Ned's Declassified has one. The screen is in his glasses, the mouse in his hand, and a printer in his back pocket.

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See also

• calculator watch
• EyeTap
• Head-mounted display
• Head-up display
• Laptop
• Personal digital assistant
• Tablet PC
• Virtual retinal display

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References

1. ^ http://www.usatcorp.com/solutions/markets.asp USAT Corp.'s Keith McRae cites numerous studies Panasonic has commissioned from independent labs such as SRI group

• Edward O. Thorp, The invention of the first wearable computer, in The Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers: Digest of Papers, IEEE Computer Society, 1998, pp. 4-8.
• Edward O. Thorp, Beat the Dealer, 2nd Edition, Vintage, New York, 1966. ISBN 0-394-70310-3
• Edward O. Thorp, "Optimal gambling systems for favorable game,." Review of the International Statistical Institute, V. 37:3, 1969, pp. 273-293.
• T.A. Bass, The Eudaemonic Pie, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1985.
• Hubert Upton, "Wearable Eyeglass Speechreading Aid," American Annals of the Deaf, V113, 2 March 1968, pp. 222-229. (previously presented at Conference on Speech-Analyzing Aids for the Deaf, June 14-17, 1967.
• C.C. Collins, L.A. Scadden, and A.B. Alden, "Mobile Studies whith a Tactile Imaging Device," Fourth Conference on Systems & Devices For The Disabled, June 1-3, 1977, Seattle WA.
• Andre F. Marion, Edward A. Heinsen, Robert Chin, and Bennie E. Helmso, wrist instrument Opens New Dimension in Personal Information."Wrist instrument opens new dimension in personal information", Hewlett-Packard Journal, December 1977. See also HP-01 wrist instrument, 1977
• Steve Mann, "An historical account of the 'WearComp' and 'WearCam' inventions developed for applications in 'Personal Imaging,'" in The First International Symposium on Wearable Computers: Digest of Papers, IEEE Computer Society, 1997, pp. 66-73.
• The Winnebiko II and Maggie
• J. Peter Bade, G.Q. Maguire Jr., and David F. Bantz, The IBM/Columbia Student Electronic Notebook Project, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Lab., Yorktown Heights, NY, 29 June 1990. (The work was first shown at the DARPA Workshop on Personal Computer Systems, Washington, D.C., 18 January 1990.)
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• Lizzy: MIT's Wearable Computer Design 2.0.5
• Steve Feiner, Bruce MacIntyre, and Doree Seligmann, "Knowledge-based augmented reality," in Communications of the ACM, 36(7), July 1993, 52-62. See also the KARMA webpage.
• Edgar Matias, I. Scott MacKenzie, and William Buxton, "Half-QWERTY: Typing with one hand using your two-handed skills," Companion of the CHI '94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 1994, pp. 51-52.
• Edgar Matias, I.Scott MacKenzie and William Buxton, "A Wearable Computer for Use in Microgravity Space and Other Non-Desktop Environments," Companion of the CHI '96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 1996, pp. 69-70.
• E.C. Urban, Kathleen Griggs, Dick Martin, Dan Siewiorek and Tom Blackadar, Proceedings of Wearables in 2005, Arlington, VA, July 18-19, 1996.
• Mik Lamming and Mike Flynn, "'Forget-me-not' Intimate Computing in Support of Human Memory" in Proceedings FRIEND21 Symposium on Next Generation Human Interfaces, 1994.

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External links

• University of South Australia Wearable Computer Lab
• UCLA Embedded Reconfigurable Systems Research Lab (ERLAB)
• Eyetap Personal Imaging (ePI) Lab
• Eleksen Plc:- World leader in smart fabrics
• Georgia Tech College of Computing wearables group
• MIT Media Lab wearables group
• CMU wearables group
• Andy Felong's wearable computing resource
• Artificial Intelligence in Wearable Computing (Special Issue in IEEE Intelligent Systems)
• Worldwide Wearable Computing Webpage
• The theory of Humanistic Intelligence
• Visual Memory Prosthetic (Wearable Face Recognizer)
• Wearable Face Recognizer web link
• Wearable Computing for the Blind (cross-modal vision)
• IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Academic Conference)
• TransVision 2004
• Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences.
• International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance.
• WearIT@work: a large European research project on wearable computing at work.
• Project iWear: a project developing a framework to enhance wearable development
• IBM Almaden Research Center's half-keyboard belt computer
• A brief history of wearable computing
• - Deja View's Hands-free Wearable Camcorder
• The Tummy PC: A Practical Wearable Computer
• Tek Gear: Listing of all commercial wearable computers and displays