MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing

Codeine writes "The Seventh Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), to be held later this month, will again feature members of MIT's Media Lab showing off the group's MIThril jacket. Taking its name from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the jacket combines body-worn computation, sensing, and networking in a clothing-integrated design, according to the project." According to a new paper (PDF link) to be presented at the conference, the latest version of this long-evolving system uses a Sharp Zaurus running Linux.

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Re:Trilogy?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can add to that the fact that Tolkien specifically said (ok, wrote) that it was *not* a trilogy, it's in Letters of JRR Tolkien, I'd give a more exact reference but I'm not at home (it has the best indices I've ever seen anyway, not hard to find).
A trilogy is composed of three independent stories that are related, try giving someone who hasn't read any Tolkien books the second volume (The Two Towers), see if he understands anything at all... specially considering books 3 and 4 (lotr is divided in 6 books plus apendices, and it has been sold that way) are separate, since the fellowship splits at the end of volume 1 (the fellowship of the ring) and doesn't get back together until volume 3 (the return of the king).
Oh, and yeah, I have the 1 volume edition illustrated by Alan Lee :P which at first got me wondering how anyone would call the book a trilogy since there is no split anywhere!
Damn, I'm a geek.