Feb 02
A wearable computer is a very personal computer. It should be worn like a piece of clothing, as unobtrusive as possible. A user should interact with the computer based upon context. It could be a communications device (immediate or store and forward), a recorder (visual, audio, other sensors) or a reference device (local or remote resources).
Jul 11
A “crashed” hard drive caused our site to go offline. The loss of data and a corrupted database backup means we have lost about 6 months of news + data 
We were seriously considering taking the site down permanently as the effort to recover seemed too great. Fortunately, we managed to recover quite a bit of the “lost” info.
Mar 09
ZDNet – ZionEyez announces “Eyez”, eyeglasses equipped with a built-in 720p HD camera designed to stream first-person video to your favorite social site. The recorded data can also be stored on the 8GB of flash memory within the Eyez™ glasses, transferred via Bluetooth or Micro USB to a computer, or wirelessly transferred to most iPhone or Android devices.
Rich Harris at ZDNet is not impressed — “I’m usually a pretty open-minded person. In my line of work, innovation and crazy ideas are a staple. It’s part of the reason I enjoy what I do. However, I have to draw the line somewhere.” [...]
“Their press release reads as if first-person-video-on-a-website-from-your-everyday-Joe Q. Public-for- everyone-to-see‘ is a brand new idea. When you go to their website, it’s flash-heavy, enshrouded in dramatic music and provides a ‘Place Order’ link that spawns a window containing placeholder copy from lipsum.org. Sigh.
All I see so far is less revolution and more known technology with the words ’social media’ attached it. ZionEyez, the “social media company” (it says that on their website) should consider chilling out on the buzz words and concentrate more on delivering their own version of putting personal video on the internet.
Sorry guys, a product that does what most of us are already doing isn’t innovation. Also, a little website QA goes a long way.”
Oct 08
Andy’s Wearable Computing Resource – The 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC07) is being held October 11-13 at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston, MA, USA. The Plenary keynote is “Wearable Robotics” by Stephen Jacobsen (pictured), President and CEO of Sarcos. The preliminary program includes sessions on a variey of topics including “Gesture Recognition and Interfaces”, “Activity and Context Recognition” and “Input, Navigation, and Augmented Reality”. Tutorials and workshops address areas such as “Introduction to Designing Mobile Applications with On-body Sensing: Why desktop emulators will let you down”, “The Role of Design in Wearable Computing” and “Designing Wearable Systems for Mainstream Acceptance”.
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