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Article: ENHANCE YOUR WARDROBE WITH WEARABLE COMPUTERS.(Business)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1996
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Byline: Warren Wilson Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It may be a few years before they show up at Nordstrom, but wearable computers are just over the horizon.
Not just big, heavy helmets and backpacks but small, lightweight processors that we'll view through normal-looking eyeglasses. But we won't just view them. We'll also talk to them, and they'll talk to us. They'll even communicate with each other and look around on their own, depending on how they're equipped.
At a three-day workshop recently at a Boeing facility in Renton, researchers from universities around the country described a wide array of potential uses for wearable computers.
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