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MIThril Jacket Showcases Wearable Computing

Posted by simoniker on 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.

8 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow! A real mithril jacket.

    I know how to test their claims... I'll get my pet cave-troll to stab whoever's wearing it with a giant spear. If they survive, then we can be sure that it's actually mithril.

  2. Its allready been done by Psychotic_Wrath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ducks started doing this a long time ago GIZMO DUCK

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  3. UNIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    UNIX

  4. Re:YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Better luck next time. Might I suggest you consider going to Troll School? Tuition is affordable and you will learn to produce truly great first posts and other trolls, including "Frosty Piss", "GNAA", "*BSD is dying", and much, much more.

  5. GNAA IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did I graduate?

  6. Re:fp by Linux+Newbie+Girl · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's fp?

  7. Re:fp by adeyadey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  8. mistaken by Boromir+son+of+Faram · · 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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