MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @09:03PM from the but-does-it-translate-entish? dept.

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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Its allready been done by Psychotic_Wrath · 2003-10-01 21:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ducks started doing this a long time ago GIZMO DUCK

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Re:fp by adeyadey · 2003-10-01 22:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"First Post". Its a competition around these parts for some..

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mistaken by Boromir+son+of+Faram · 2003-10-02 02:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ITYM troll, not ogre. Tolkein never mentioned ogres living in Middle Earth. Frodo was stabbed by a mountain troll.

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