Article: Thad Starner 24, Somerville

OCCUPATION: Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student in media arts & sciences

HOBBIES: "Augmenting humans" with computers

FAVORITE MUSIC: The Rez Band, a Chicago "hard-rock band"

LAST VACATION: In Australia, to deliver a paper on handwriting recognition

TRANSPORTATION: Rides the T

HARDWARE IN HIS OFFICE: Silicon Graphics workstation linked to the MIT Media Lab net

HARDWARE EVERYWHERE ELSE: Starner's own "wearable computer." Display by Reflection Technology of Waltham; one-handed keyboard by HandyKey of Mt. Sinai, N.Y.; central unit by Park Engineering of Spokane, Wash.

USE OF TECHNOLOGY AT WORK: With a small computer display glued to one eye of his goggles, ...

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