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Article: Irvine Sensors Working With Boeing on Wearable Computer Procom Changes Its Pitch at Cruttenden Conference
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- Orange County Business Journal
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- March 9, 1998
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It's what all the fashionable soldiers will be wearing. Costa Mesa-based Irvine Sensors Corp. has a $1.3 million order from the Boeing Co. to develop the innards of a wearable computer using its three-dimensional, chip-stacking technology.
"Wearable computers are the key to integrated communications and information management systems for the next-generation warfighter," said Michael Bailey, principal investigator for Boeing. The project aims to pack the power of a high-end workstation into a half-pound device about the size of a deck of cards.
The computer will be fully voice-activated and integrated to the body, something the companies call "advanced humionics." No word on whether that ...