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Pioneer's Wearable Computer Jacket

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the elbow-compilers dept.

i4u writes "Pioneer develops a wearable computer jacket with organic film electro-luminescent (OEL) display. On the photo, Kayoko Tanaka, a PR staff member of Pioneer, tries on a prototype of a wearable computer, a jacket with a built-in display in its sleeve in Tokyo Thursday, June 5, 2003. Pioneer works on this technology since 2001. I also found an article in the Taipei Times from 2001. Back in 2001, the jacket looked a bit fake compared to the one shown today. When the computer display jacket hits the market is unclear."

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  1. Re:Cool. by m3djack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we based future research upon the answer to the question, "What's the point, does anyone actually need this?", I think we would fail to advance as far as we have today...