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Article: Fashion forward: material handling meets high style and high function with wearable computers.
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- Industrial Engineer
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Portable computers are nothing new. From the time man first toted an abacus to augment his arithmetical acumen, we've kept computers in tow to ease our personal workload. Calculators, laptops, and PDAs followed. But while these computers have made a significant contribution to productivity and made our lives more convenient, they are limited by their simplistic capabilities and their poor attention to human factors.
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Enter the wearable computer.
Designed to work in concert with the human body as opposed to just traveling with it, wearable computers can take many forms. From waist-mounted units that evoke Batman's utility ...