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Article: Wearable Computers Move to Mainstream in Georgia.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- November 7, 2000
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Nov. 8--ATLANTA--Wearable computers, under intense study around the world, are now being put to work in practical ways here and elsewhere. And bigger assignments for these advanced communications systems are at hand.
Under guidance of researchers at Georgia Tech, the Georgia poultry-processing industry has workers monitoring and adjusting the systems for turning out chicken products. Meanwhile, doctors at Emory are using tiny vest computers to monitor life indicators of infants.
Georgia Tech is developing programs for parents and caregivers to monitor at-risk children and sick adults within homes and even from remote places.
Just two months ...