Wearable-HOWTO.
Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juéry
<trollhunter@linuxfr.org>
v0.0.5, December 1999
Nomadism is one of the major trends of our society, now most of the people can work with a laptop computer, but few did the next step: to live, or if you prefer to wear one computer that is a wearable.
1.
Foreword
2.
What is a Wearable anyway ?
3.
Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks
4.
Advocacy
4.1 Why ?
4.2 The Wearable concept is not a revolution, it is just an evolution.
4.3 The Wearable may give its user an edge.
4.4 The Wearable concept: a stealth menace.
4.5 Wearable computing: an emerging industry.
5.
What CPU ?
5.1 PDA based Wearables
5.2 PC/104 and laptop based Wearables.
5.3 Misc
6.
Power supply
7.
OS
8.
The Sulawesi project.
9.
Input
9.1 Variations around the keyboard
10.
Audio Output
11.
Visual Output
11.1 Head Down displays.
11.2 Head UP displays
12.
Comms
13.
How can I have my Wearable ?
13.1 Commercial Solutions.
13.2 Do it yourself.
14.
PalmPilot and its clone ( IBM, HandSpring, TRG ): a new breed of wearables.
15.
How to carry my wearable ?
16.
Applications with Wearables.
16.1 In the army now.
16.2 At the hospital
16.3 With the firefighters
16.4 Wearable for the disabled.
17.
A borg's life.
18.
Sources of Information
18.1 Non commercial
18.2 Commercial.
19.
To do List.
20.
Revision History
21.
Thanks and Credits