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Ultra-Cool Wireless Wearables
moonboy writes "I just saw this story linked to from Ars Technica. Motorola and Frog Design have recently released information about some awesome new prototypes for wearable computing with wireless capability using Bluetooth technology. The wearables group will include a WDA (Wearable Digital Assistant) which will serve as the communications hub, the Wristable, Goggles, Digi-Cam, Comport, Radio-button, and the Intelli-pen. Very cool stuff!" Prototype seems a strong word....
Somebody with a high-gain antenna will just immediately "see" what you are seeing. fuck spy-satellites; just let everyone do the spying for you (well, sell a lot of those glasses first, anyhow)!
Stalkers are gonna have such a blast with all these.
On the other hand, I predict that shit like this will be embedded into our bodies within no time.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
"Goggles: Integrated into the frame of exciting, stylish sports eyewear"
"Stylish" and "geek toys" like this are mutually exclusive aren't they?
a Microsoft-powered Wearable Personal Assistant...
oops you're electrocuted!
"Brings your porn wherever you are"(tm)
The WDA is a handheld device that contains the same components as an iDEN phone. This device does not use a numeric keypad. Instead, it contains voice recognition capabilities
Why did you say "halt"? Heck you rebooted the PDA in my shoes.
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Would I have a beowulf wardrobe then ???
It should very interesting to have the cam at my shoes and connecting, via Bluetooth, with my bluetooth enabled glasses....girls should be worried...
great motivation for not doing any exercise and sitting on your arse all day - bigger you are - more clothes you can wear and bigger your personal beowulf cluster can be!
this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
Hell. My only fear is that someone will figure out how to hack the wireless protocol and beam the goatse guy direct to my eyeballs.
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
The new motorola pda/calculator/cellphone/wap-enabled wristable also works as a high frequency contraceptive offering coverage up to 100 meters (UK) away.
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ATS11=0 the secret to beating everyone else to a 1 line board.
Bill's wearable watch: Bill, you've got mail.
Bill: Damn! Couldn't you find a better time?
[Removes watch and flings it away.]
Bill: Ahhh, Traaaaaacyyyyyy......
Tracy's babel fish: No matches found. Did you mean: 1) Trace 2) Tracing 3) Racy
Tracy: Shit!
[Removes babel fish]
Bill remembers just in the nick of time that his goggles are connected to the internet! And he's turned the firewall off, which means that anyone that connects to port 23484 on his goggles can see what he's seeing!!! [Takes goggles off]
Bill starts scratching Tracy's back. Immediately, her intellipen software kicks into action and tries to figure out what he's writing.
[2 hours later]
Bill and tracy are finally done spurning all the advances from their various bluetooth devices, at which point they realize they forgot to switch off the webcam...
If you have to worry about Microsoft dropping support for your bra, then I think you've got a bit too personal of a relationship with them...
What's this Submit thingy do?
Is this how the Borg started out?
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated???
... the big issue is not wearing the devices, it's actually wearing the antenna.
Signatures are for stupids.
(must remember to hit post anon option before clicking submit button...)
Well, should some small-breasted people want to achieve an illusion of bigger boobs in the year 2010, buying a piece of Microsoft bloatware might be the only viable option short of surgery :). "With Microsoft InternetBra XP^2 can you not only surf the Net at the convenience of your underwear, but it also increases cup size by at least 2 sizes! (Limitations apply; see warranty.)"
Sssssppppppaaaaacccccceeeeee Ggggghhhhooosssstttt !!!
I know I will be buying my girlfriend some Windows pants.
As often as those go down I'll be getting it all the time!