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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. Frosty by Malicious · · Score: 3, Interesting
    But does it work as a jacket?
    1. Can you wear it in the rain?
    2. Can you wear it to keep warm, in bitter cold temperatures?

    Jackets should be functionality first, Gadgets second.

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  2. Re:Cool. by zakezuke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly. Do we really need semi-conductors when tubes work just fine? Given the popularity of radio sets, the reduction in power consumption was most spiffy, let alone benifits of portable transister radios.

    Logical applications:

    1. Mobile phones. resolves the issue of wrist watch based trancievers being too bulky. [side note, would be spiffy if your jacket phone took off the shelf rechargable batteries] Mobile video phones as well.

    2. Mobile media players. Portable media players, wether they be cassette, CD, or solid state digital are subject to being thrashed about on the body, bumping into things, and falling off.

    3. Displays. thinner display could be the future to digital paper.

    4. Portable computing. The artical doesn't cover input, to me it seems a rather nice alternative to lugging around a laptop.

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  3. Crippleware by GoneGaryT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Charlie Uniform November Tango

    It's hard enough to get decent jackets for wheelchair use. We gonna get fux0red over again?

    Hey son, don't wipe on your sleeve... damn, you've Slashdotted your nose again..

  4. Demo Movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/ oc.html

  5. Hmmm, the possibilities are endless by Phoenix666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even better would be a fabric that stops all wavelengths of light save one narrow band. With the right polarized glasses you'd see right through it. Give your girlfriend that snazzy outfit for her birthday, take her to a fancy restaurant, put the glasses on, and you're literally undressing her with your eyes...

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  6. Indecent Exposure by vespazzari · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is it still indecent exposure if you are wearing clothes that are merely displaying whats underneath? A bikini would be so awesome!

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  7. Re:Karma whoring... again and WORKING LINKS to pho by f0rt0r · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thanks for the link. I looked that the picture of the girl with the display on the sleeve of her jacket, and couldn't help but think what the MPAA would do after this comes out. I mean, there you are on the subway, watching a DVD you rented, you, know the kind that says "Not for public display" or some such garbage, I wonder how long before someone gets stuck with a lawsuit. Sound far fetched? Not compared to some of the other stories I have read here on /.

    Anyhow, I need to get some coffee, cyas.

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