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Article: Thad Starner 24, Somerville
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1994
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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, ...