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The invention of the first wearable computer (1998) [pdf]

43 points by thinkingemote 4y ago

xor99 4y ago
There's a photo of the original device too: https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=related&kv=75606 https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=rel...
s0teri0s 4y ago
I opened expecting a picture of a pip-boy-like device a-la Fallout.
- spicybright 4y ago
  To be fair, if you click other comment's image link, it still looks like it belongs in the universe (or maybe that's just from oxidation over time!)
defrost 4y ago
If you enjoyed this PDF . . . get the book ! T.A. Bass, The Endaemonic Pie, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1985. ( Still got my first edition from '85 on the shelf )
- pinewurst 4y ago
  That’s a great book!
ahoho 4y ago
This is great for the descriptions of Shannon alone: > Claude also had a swing about 35 feet long attached to a huge tree, on a slope. We started the swing from uphill and the downhill end of the arc could be as much as 15 or 20 feet above the ground. > Claude’s neighbors on the Mystic lake were occasionally astounded to see a figure “walking on the water.” It was me using a pair of Claude’s huge styrofoam “shoes” designed just for this.
melling 4y ago
Edward O. Thorp… 90 and still going strong: https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg Lots of great information in the video. He discovered the Madoff scheme 17 years before it was publicly discovered. So many recommendations: - Poor Charlie’s Almanac - https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/elon-musk-cognitive-biases.html https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/elon-musk-cognitive-bia... - Fundamental Attribution Error - Externalities - Book: The Wolf at the Door https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/publications/books/wolf-door-menace-economic-insecurity-and-how-fight-it https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/publications/books/wolf-d... Here’s a book he wrote a few years ago. https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812979907/ref=sr_1_1?aqid=1662475249&refinements=p_27%3AEdward+O.+Thorp&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812...

43 points by thinkingemote 4y ago

There's a photo of the original device too: https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=related&kv=75606 https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=rel...

s0teri0s 4y ago

I opened expecting a picture of a pip-boy-like device a-la Fallout.

spicybright 4y ago
To be fair, if you click other comment's image link, it still looks like it belongs in the universe (or maybe that's just from oxidation over time!)

defrost 4y ago

If you enjoyed this PDF . . . get the book ! T.A. Bass, The Endaemonic Pie, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1985. ( Still got my first edition from '85 on the shelf )

pinewurst 4y ago
That’s a great book!

ahoho 4y ago

This is great for the descriptions of Shannon alone: > Claude also had a swing about 35 feet long attached to a huge tree, on a slope. We started the swing from uphill and the downhill end of the arc could be as much as 15 or 20 feet above the ground. > Claude’s neighbors on the Mystic lake were occasionally astounded to see a figure “walking on the water.” It was me using a pair of Claude’s huge styrofoam “shoes” designed just for this.

melling 4y ago

Edward O. Thorp… 90 and still going strong: https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg Lots of great information in the video. He discovered the Madoff scheme 17 years before it was publicly discovered. So many recommendations: - Poor Charlie’s Almanac - https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/elon-musk-cognitive-biases.html https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/elon-musk-cognitive-bia... - Fundamental Attribution Error - Externalities - Book: The Wolf at the Door https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/publications/books/wolf-door-menace-economic-insecurity-and-how-fight-it https://shapiro.macmillan.yale.edu/publications/books/wolf-d... Here’s a book he wrote a few years ago. https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812979907/ref=sr_1_1?aqid=1662475249&refinements=p_27%3AEdward+O.+Thorp&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812...