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Wearable Computers
ucribido writes "Here is an interesting story regarding wearable computers and other communication accessories utilizing technology developed by Martin Cooper, who is regarded as the "father" of the portable cell phone. The fashion show was sponsored by Charmed Technology which is a spin off of MIT's Media Lab. Check out the hot "geek" chics sporting the latest in info-gagetry. Apparently, the CEO of charmed regards his company as the answer to Bill Joy's warning that technology will soon wipe out mankind if not kept in check. Find out for yourself."
Imagine a cool computer that strapped comfortably to your wrist that you looked at to tell where the sun was in the sky... you could call it a watch. Imagine an incredible device that could be implanted directly into your heart to regulate its beating... you could call it a pacemaker. Imagine a wafer thin piece of plastic that you place *directly* on your eye and which renders your vision robot-accurate... you could call it a contact lens. Imagine a highly sensitive yet covert listening device you could wear all the time... maybe call it a hearing aid? We're all cyborgs, and have been for some time now. What's all the fuss about?
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If they play nice, this could provide some good support for small hardware. I would certainly like to be able to build some personal applications for handheld and wearable devices. I know that I perfer to be able to program any hardware I buy rather than just using the canned software that came with it. I don't always take advantage of that option, but it is a selling point to me.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
This article has some of the most memorable lines I've heard in quite a while:
The fashion show came after a stark warning from one of the leading architects of the Silicon Valley computer revolution that technology was developing so rapidly and with so few checks that it could eventually wipe out humans.
When evil computers come to destroy humanity, who can save us? The army with their flaccid spears? no! The famed pocket protector wearing geeks? no! Fashion? Yes!!!
Inspiration for Tillotson's merging of the science of smell with nanotechnology and fashion came from the coolant systems built into the space suits worn by astronauts on the Apollo space missions in the 1960s, she said.
Man, I guess the 60s are going back in fashion.
``People are afraid technology will turn them into cyborgs and make them lose their privacy and humanity. But the way to prevent the cyborg thing is to make it fashionable,'' she said.
How do we prevent technology from making people lose their privacy and humaity? Fashion! After all, nobody can spy on you if you look just so chic.
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From their website :
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Tillotson joined Charmed Technology in February 2000 as a sensory designer. Her focus is the introduction of smell technology to wearable computing and digital fashion. Jenny is responsible for setting up the London Sensory Design Lab(TM).
Through the addition of smell technology and pheromones to the world of fashion design, clothing and accessories, Jenny is creating a whole new 'multi-sensorial' environment.
Sorry, honey, all of the clothing I own is already saturated with my own patented HebGb(TM) pheremone blend. Most of my geek friends have gone far beyond, carefully refining their UltraStink(TM) and MegaStink(TM) bioengineered pheremone capsules, which are now strong enough to elicit responses from over 10m away (depending on prevailing winds), as well as strip paint.