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2.0? That falls fare short of what wearables were doing decades ago.
by njharman 13y ago
2.0? That falls fare short of what wearables were doing decades ago.
- aaronem 13y agoReally? Which wearable, decades ago, had the ability to pair with a smartphone and access the Internet to retrieve information for display?
- lnanek2 13y agoWearables decades ago were generally big computer bricks on your waist or otherwise strapped to your body, then a separate display up at your head, and often a separate input in your hand like a Twiddler chorded keyboard. They did tend to range in power and capabilities up to matching laptops of the day, though.
- njharman 13y agoThey didn't need to depend on a smartphone. One of Steve Mann's many wearables used radio to base station. He may of later had cellular.
- mikestew 13y agoWhat do you mean? A decade ago it was Microsoft SPOT, which could do Microsoft Messenger, weather, stocks and news. Is there something else you're thinking of?
- kylec 13y agoWell, there was Fossil's Wrist PDA that ran Palm OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA
- mikestew 13y agoFair enough. Though at 108g, just 4g shy of the weight of an iPhone 5S, it begins to stretch the meaning of "wearable".
- TheAnimus 13y agoIn otherwords slightly less than an Omega Seamaster? Which is 111g as per: http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/ARTICLES/TwoOmegaSeamaster/A%20real%20and%20a%20fake%20Omega%20compared.htm http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/ARTICLES/TwoOmegaSeamaster/A%20r...
- njharman 13y agoFor the people woefully ignorant of wearable history and pathetically incapable of doing their own search... Read about Steve Mann and MIT Media Lab. Wikipedia article is a good start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer