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Wearable Computing

You may have missed the International Symposium on Wearable Computers that was held in Boston this past week. Some products displayed there are
described as “ready for mainstream commercial production”:

- The Swiss Federal Institute of Techonology - "stretchable, threadlike sensors that can be woven into shirts to detect their wearers' posture." Help for those with back pain.

- Germany's University of Bremen - "shoe-borne sensor whose tiny accelerometers perform electronic dead reckoning — providing real-time location tracking in places satellite navigation systems either can't reach or can't describe with precision." For helping firefighters and emergency responders. (Wait until the Vice Squad gets ahold of those! ~Wulf, Ed.)

- MIT - "black plastic badges around their necks that analyze multiple factors – including motion and speech patterns”.

The last one will be useful when you need to tell the TSA that the device you’ve strapped to your chest right before walking into the airport is some kind of engineering geek art, and not a crude and colorful bomb.

Posted by Wulf on October 13, 2007 at 07:28 PM

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