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Pioneer's Wearable Computer Jacket
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."
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...
Oh, wait, you actually meant rain coat, like you wear to keep from getting wet when it's raining. Nevermind.
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Japanese Transparent Skirts and Optical Camouflage Research> . Now that is what I call cool tech.
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are going to love these. You know, the kind of old ladies that wear personalized 'My grandson is cuter than yours' sweatshirts they buy at little booths in malls.
You say that like a cotton t-shirt isn't smarter than the average American.
Wow. It's the first product that seems to be ill-suited for porn...
I mean, what good would the display be if it's moving back and forth so much?
than a yuppie driving down the road talking on a cell phone. Can you imagine someone talkin on a phone, typing emails, while trying to drive and drink coffee? God help us all.
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Just wait for the whole back and front of the thing to be a OLED with ads.
And how far off are OLEDs from billboard useage?
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Untill someone hacks your T-Shirt and puts a goatse picture on the back, or DDoSes your pants.
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A wearable jacket. I've been waiting for one of these for a while.
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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What happens when it gets to hot to wear a jacket? Will you have to go with out your email on your arm?
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
This shirt will go great with my shoe phones...
(Hopefully someone remembers Get Smart)
"Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more." -Edward H. Harriman
A pair of pants would be great because I could wear those just about any time, but then you have the issue of frequent washing. (OK, well maybe not everyone on /. has that issue, but I do. :P) Having to dry clean the thing would be a show-stopper, I wouldn't buy it. I think it may be entirely possible to make wearable computers washable with the removal of a few components, so I'd rather go the pants route than get a jacket I'll only use sometimes.
Ideally, I want body jewelry with processing power. It comes in the shower with you, but that's probably less damaging than being thrown around in a washing machine... and you'll always be wearing it. I can't wait until my cell phone consists of an earring and a lip librette.
For those who are not so punk, how about belts that sync when you hang them on your belt rack? That way you can always accessorize well without sacrificing your computing needs.
I just want to point out that wearable computing will not catch on with women until they start offering products that match our nail polish and make our butts look good.
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