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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.

8 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Guide to Editors Posting Articles on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ... a Beowulf cluster of these?

    Thank you.

    --Patrick Bateman, Esq.

  3. Re:Price for toys ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't forget hookers... you can buy a bunch of really good hooker-nights...

  4. Re:great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  5. 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...

  6. You by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are gay

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    thx

  7. Yuckamuck about nothing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is yuckamuck about nothing as usual as stuff goes.

  8. Re:Porn on the Go.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ahem... That's "pr0n"