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Contents 1 Too much text 2 Issues section 3 American football? 4 Eyeglasses? 5 Advertisement? 6 Merge? 7 Split? :-) 8 External link(farm) 9 Info to be included? 10 Plagiarism

[edit] Too much text

There is way too much text. Suggest breaking into Introduction, Applications, History, Companies involved, and See also. Shashank Shekhar 16:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Issues section

The section entitled "issues" does not cite sources.

So what's up with the "issues" section? Someone added the prophecy template. Does anyone think that micromanagement/surveillance has already happened because of wearable computers? --65.148.145.95 11:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It does seem to be more prophetic than stating fact. The article should illuminate the topic of wearable computing, and the "Issues" section should illustrate the issues that the topic faces or the issues created by the technology. This current point might be a risk, but not an issue. Blathering1

• I think issues brought up in research papers are appropriate, especially if they are cited by others. But definitely no rampant speculation etc. --Treekids (talk) 02:32, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] American football?

Every once in awhile I'll see the quarterbacks in professional football games (as in NFL) doing what appears to be 'typing' on some sort of thing worn on their forearm. It looks like some sort of computer, but I don't know what it is or what it does. Does anyone know anything about this? PolarisSLBM 14:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)pankaj

[edit] Eyeglasses?

How are eyeglasses wearable computers? In what way do they compute? Pocket watches, okay, they compute the time, but glasses, no. --Raulpascal 16:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Clearly Raulpascal is not a glasses wearer. I agree that glasses aren't anywhere close to a general-purpose wearable computer. But glasses do have a few similarities to wearable computers. Glasses give Image_editing#Perspective_correction_and_distortion, giving a "better than reality" Augmented reality. I can't think of anything that is not a computer that can do that. --75.48.165.135 23:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Rather than argue over it, would it be better to quote "A brief history of wearable computing" Bradley Rhodes? --75.48.165.135 01:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advertisement?

I'm pulling the following from "Commercial Viability", the buzzwords and general description (along with a non-captioned photo) make it seem like an advertisement:

"Currently, Arcom Control Systems (a member of Eurotech Group) offers the latest in wearable computers, the ZYPAD. The ZYPAD is a rugged wrist wearable touch screen computer with GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The ZYPAD runs a version of embedded Linux Kernel 2.6 with a complete GTK desktop GUI and also Windows CE. The ZYPAD can run a number of custom applications such as Wireless RFID, GPS and Zigbee applications. " -- 69.243.168.118 23:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I think this is a good example of a wearable computer though, Perhaps the entry could be re-written in an acceptable format? Darkeye11547 18:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I re-added it to commercialisation (after the merge gave a lot of text that looked ugly). I think it is a good image of peoples idea of a comercialised wearable computer. I cut the adjectives out of the text, so it sound less adverttising.Yobmod (talk) 08:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wearable computing. (Discuss)"

• I vote yes --Treekids (talk) 02:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
• I think yes as well. There is a lot of overlap between the two - can easily be combined into one. --User:Bradka 14:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• I say yes also. These two are clearly the same thing, just different suffixes. Xonybubba (talk) 12:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• I say yes - it was very confusing having 2 articles on identical subjects, with essentially the same name!Yobmod (talk) 10:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

So, i've done a first pass at the merge. Only thing lost was "Vision" section, which was poor and OR. History section here seemed to be a summary of the other articles essay, so probably needs to be edited down / re-written (check the history).Yobmod (talk) 08:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split? :-)

After doing the merge, i think it is time for a split :-). Specifically the "in fiction". If no-one object, i'll spin it off into an "in popular culture article", with a very short summary here (emphasising it's use in SF). Reason: I think it doesn't add anything substantial to this already long article, and if we are defining WCs as wrist watches, then almost all ficiotn since the invention of the pocket watch applies. And it is all unreference, and i don't see that changing any time soon.

This article seems to have enough info and images, that with cites, it could become a good article.Yobmod (talk) 08:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External link(farm)

I'm copying the long external link list here, so help decide which should be kept. I'm dubious about any that link to a specific product or specific research group. Seem too much like advertising, and don't give a useful amount of info to the average reader. Many could probably used for references tho.Yobmod (talk) 13:29, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

• ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Wearable Computing Lab
• University of South Australia Wearable Computer Lab
• UCLA Embedded Reconfigurable Systems Research Lab (ERLAB)
• Eyetap Personal Imaging (ePI) Lab
• Eleksen Plc:- World leader in smart fabrics
• Georgia Tech College of Computing wearables group
• MIT Media Lab wearables group
• Andy Felong's wearable computing resource
• Artificial Intelligence in Wearable Computing (Special Issue in IEEE Intelligent Systems)
• Eyetap Wearable Computing Webpage
• The theory of Humanistic Intelligence
• Visual Memory Prosthetic (Wearable Face Recognizer)
• Wearable Face Recognizer web link
• Wearable Computing for the Blind (cross-modal vision)
• IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Academic Conference)
• Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences.
• International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance.
• WearIT@work: a large European research project on wearable computing at work.
• Project iWear: a project developing a framework to enhance wearable development
• IBM Almaden Research Center's half-keyboard belt computer
• A brief history of wearable computing
• The Tummy PC: A Practical Wearable Computer
• What am I wearing today? Details from decades of daily wear
• Wearable RFID technology

I disagree with the above part about advertising. In a developing and controversial field such as this, all the information possible should be easily accessible. These links are not easy to sift out of a web search like google, and had I known these links where available earlier, my life would've been a lot easier. An average reader would more than likely not be reading this topic. Only ones with interest and who would like to know more would stumble upon this. 66.8.242.209 (talk) 13:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Info to be included?

tumhari maa ki chooth on Systems & Devices For The Disabled, June 1-3, 1977, Seattle WA.</ref> On the consumer end, 1977 also saw the introduction of the HP-01 algebraic calculator watch by Hewlett-Packard.^[1]

[edit] Plagiarism

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... The commercialization of general-purpose wearable computers, as led by companies such as Xybernaut, CDI and ViA Inc, has thus far met with limited success. Publicly-traded Xybernaut tried forging alliances with companies such as IBM and Sony in order to make wearable computing widely available, ...

Appears to be lifted (or vice versa) almost verbatim from Application design for wearable computing By Dan Sieworek, Asim Smailagic, Thad Eugene per (Google Books) --208.80.117.222 (talk) 06:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC)