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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. i posted this story a week ago! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sigh. i did the ns story, and another link on the topic too. Oh well. I suppose having 3 links did it...