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Article: The future of wearable computers: from assisting the disabled to serving as secretaries, wearable technologies will see their practical uses expand. (Visions).
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- The Futurist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Wearable computers offer hands-free access to pieces of information in two seconds or less--a major improvement m efficiency over laptops arid personal digital assistants, says wearable computer guru Thad Stainer, an assistant professor at Georgia institute of Technology's College of Computing. Add a tiny camera and microphone to the wearables, and their capabilities could boom exponentially.
Wearable computers equipped with integrated cameras and microphones could soon be able to "see" and "hear" as we do. In Stainer's vision, these breakthroughs will lead to wearable computers that function as virtual secretaries, or "intelligent assistants," that would be far ...