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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.

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  1. Porting is straightforward. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is just a stock SH4 machine with custom peripherals. *BSD has been ported to many such devices, and so has Linux (Dreamcast being the first that comes to mind, but there are SH4-based PDAs which are probably supported too).

    If demand exists, and if the product rolls out in quantity at a decent price point, distributions for pick-your-favourite-*NIX will be out in short order.

    Bear in mind that all we've seen as a "license agreement ... to develop" a device like this. They look serious about it, but for now, it's still vapour.

  2. what about the tiqit? by Spiral+Man · · Score: 2, Informative
    The Tiqit computer is a little slower, but its cheaper, and it comes w/ linux pre-installed. no display is included, but you can get vga headmounted displays...

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  3. Re:I just want good display glasses.. by Spiral+Man · · Score: 2, Informative
    here they might have what you want, not sure if you can buy it yet though...

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