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Oh yes, I'm rather imaginative tonight. I want a wearable computer but I can't afford one, nor have I found one I like. What I do have, however, is a netbook. So, tonight's brainstorm is...
Attach the netbook to a set of football shoulder pads!
It then becomes not just a wearable computer, but a *FOOTBALL* wearable computer! Then I add pieces to it one by one as budget allows. I already have a headset with mic that electri-fire (Mathe) gave me. Then I can add satellite wireless or a projection display (there is a miniature one available now), or a chorded keyboard/mouse that operates with one hand, etc. I can even add my accelerometer device to it...
This is too cool, either that or I'm up way too late. You tell me...
Les
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you can call it NERDWARE®
and ill buy one... heheh
as we were talking about last night...ive often had ideas of similar things when I was gigging a lot.
was curious to know why and what you would be using it for?
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Les can you build one of these for me please... 
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| shanemorris wrote: | | Les can you build one of these for me please... |
Just think. If our species weren't so full of war we'd be developing these things for the handicapped -- sigh.
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| bachus wrote: | | shanemorris wrote: | | Les can you build one of these for me please... |
Just think. If our species weren't so full of war we'd be developing these things for the handicapped -- sigh. |
The Japanese are doing exactly that. 
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| Muied Lumens wrote: | | bachus wrote: | | shanemorris wrote: | | Les can you build one of these for me please... |
Just think. If our species weren't so full of war we'd be developing these things for the handicapped -- sigh. |
The Japanese are doing exactly that. |
Indeed they are Bacchus as Rob said ... the "HAL" suit is being developed (supposedly) for handicap purposes as well. I would link the youtube but its banned on my network here at work.
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| I would go for a forearm mounted computer... a very small widescreen would do. There are cheap mini-notebooks available now, you could have the screen on the forearm and tastefully detatch and route the keyboard section onto the bicep. |
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| Muied Lumens wrote: |
The Japanese are doing exactly that. |
Whoopeee! My knees are so ready for that!
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Uh.. been mentioned but this one is wearable. Needs more processing power but...
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-38263.html
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Not sure it takes much processing power, my phone does most of what he was trying to do with the sixrh sense. Google (mostly) does the rest.
(See google goggles, and any enhanced reality app for android) |
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not quite the same ...  but OMG!
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| shanemorris wrote: | | not quite the same ... but OMG! |
Yea its potential as a midi interface is quite interesting.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:
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| bachus wrote: |
Just think. If our species weren't so full of war we'd be developing these things for the handicapped -- sigh. |
You can say that again. |
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| This topic reminds me of a television ad I saw years ago, in which a young man is sitting in the park, with a tiny VR eye-clip in front of his face, buying and selling stock. He leaps up and yells BUY! Ok... SELL! SELL!!! and a ton of pigeons flutter madly off, upset by all the yellin'. Cos he wasn't gellin'. Money he was smellin'. What he was sellin', he wasn't tellin'. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:40 am Post subject:
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@ Inventor
i had a similar notion. keep us posted |
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| bachus wrote: | | shanemorris wrote: | | not quite the same ... but OMG! |
Yea its potential as a midi interface is quite interesting. |
LoL Bachus ... yeah you can really get some bass out of that machine
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The wearable computer just became a broadcasting studio! I received a $1,000 patent royalty check so I'm going to spend half of it upgrading the netbook with kbd/mouse and cd/dvd then buy a Lexicon Omega recording studio package with a Korg nanokontrol and a mic with stand. Wow that will upgrade the quality of my radio shows tremendously. The wearable is back on the drawing board. Ho ho ho, merry Christmas and happy holidays!
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| destroyifyer wrote: | | I would go for a forearm mounted computer... a very small widescreen would do. There are cheap mini-notebooks available now, you could have the screen on the forearm and tastefully detatch and route the keyboard section onto the bicep. |
Hmmmm,....
Like a Pipboy!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:19 am Post subject:
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| Inventor wrote: | | The wearable computer just became a broadcasting studio! I received a $1,000 patent royalty check |
Awesome! 
Now I need to invent something and get a nice royalty check so I can take my better half on a nice holiday. |
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| Uncle Krunkus wrote: | | destroyifyer wrote: | | I would go for a forearm mounted computer... a very small widescreen would do. There are cheap mini-notebooks available now, you could have the screen on the forearm and tastefully detatch and route the keyboard section onto the bicep. |
Hmmmm,....
Like a Pipboy! |
Andy, you're gonna look like a Pipboy with this chainmaille ring I'm sending you next time i get to the post office. noice!
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