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Article: Wearable Computers Wave of Future
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- October 9, 2002
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SEATTLE (AP) _ Say you're so hooked to your mouse, keyboard and computer
monitor you can hardly tear yourself away from your terminal.
You don't have to. You can wear your computer.
Thad Starner, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, has been
walking around with his for nearly a decade.
"Most people who stand in line at the airport are just waiting there,
bored. I'm writing the next chapter of my book or reading e-mail,
" Starner said Tuesday at the International Symposium on Wearable
Computers at the University of Washington.
Starner's gear, which costs about $4,500, includes a micro-optical
monitor hooked to his glasses, a cell phone-shaped keyboard ...