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Affordable Wearables May Arrive By Christmas

Posted by timothy on from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept.

Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2)." These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well? At $2000, wearables might finally hit a lot of toylists.

3 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Great! by Spackler · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    And then (seeing they are running a Microsoft OS), CodeRed III r00ts them all, and everybody turns into remote Zombies attacking anything open source!

    No Thanks!

  2. wow by vectus · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Never before could you give a Christmas present that says, "Please mug me," more clearly.

    I don't know if I'll be able to afford to give this to both my boss, and my inlaws..

  3. wearable by agdv · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I'll just wait till they release the underwearable computer, which ought to be *lots* more fun... ;-)