Boffing Carsten Mehring demontrates his wearable computer
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@JetJL Voice command isn’t ideal. You can get mini keyboards on ebay. I have been eyeing some wireless mini keyboards to use on the wearable I am building.
@IceMetalPunk There are displays that look like glasses. Unfortunately those can be hard to get and expensive. Seems like head mounted displays come and go all the time. Wearable computer hasn’t become popular enough for cheap high res displays to be available. The one in the video looks to be an old xybernaut display (no longer manufactured). There are much nicer and less bulky displays out there.
that…or you could get a blackberry
You are probably referring to the Key-Glove design by R. Paul McCarthy (1999) or a modification of this design, the KeyGlove by wirejunkie. If you would like to better understand the differences of the described KITTY system and those earlier gloves please review the publications about the KITTY system listed on UCSD’s VisLab site or download an earlier white paper directly (just google: Portable Input Device Survey and KITTY Prototype)
It’s not ingenious, people have been doing this ever since computing devices became light enough to carry around. I made the same keyglove back in 2000 based on an idea that had been on the net several years at that time. Yet he managed to get a patent for something he obviously didn’t invent….
Resistance is futile?
This is interesting, but no one wants to re-learn how to type just so they can type everywhere… Not to mention I don’t know anyone who’d walk around with such an ugly HUD. Can’t they just use displays that look like glasses, at the very least?
-IMP
I think this is the right way to go. But I had a thought: if you replace the electrical contacts with pressure sensors, you could type by tapping your fingers against any solid surface (table top, your leg, and yes, your own thumb, but then again…). Finger/thumb touches could then be mouse clicks: index for left, middle for right, ring for scroll wheel.
Throw in speech recognition and you have a wearable that does (virtual) keyboard, (virtual) mouse, and voice.
This is for people who are already working all day. This way, they can get out in the surrounding environment, instead of being in the office all the time all the time all the time.
isn’t voice commands easier? well my idea is to make a portable computer with a net book and and a heads up display and a hand held mouse as well as mic w/ speech recognition program. It would be fun but i don’t have the money.
nice, now play doom with it
If you a referring to “Minority Report” (2002). No chance …. The provisional patent on the KITTY system was filed in Febr. 2001. By the way, the “Miniority Report” gloves were loosely based on the
Pinchglove which never was intended to take advantage of the row and column layout on which touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard is based. It’s just the latter idea on which the KITTY QWERTY keyboard is based upon…. Fruit for thought
cool but everything created or being creayed I have seen already in a scifi movie which trips me out because all these so called inventers do is watch scifi and steal ideas. Well its not technically stealing because these thigns are only props in a film, but still it makes me smile when someone else see’s it that does not watch much scifi. But this is cool & I want one as soon as they go forsale.
This is fucking awesome, where can I get one?
Exactly… but not until the whole package can be truly wearable and not look awful. I’d give it a try.
And we see the first real life gargoyle.
sooo stupid. i’ll give it creative but not practical. who wants to be working all day not enjoying the surrounding environment?