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Wearable-HOWTO.

Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juéry <[email protected]>

v0.0.9 November 2000

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. Advocacy

3.1 Why ?
3.2 The Wearable concept is not a revolution, it is just an evolution.
3.3 The Wearable may give its user an edge.
3.4 The Wearable concept: a stealth menace.
3.5 Wearable computing: an emerging industry.

4. What CPU ?

4.1 PDA based Wearables
4.2 PC/104 and laptop based Wearables.
4.3 Transmeta's processor the Crusoe.
4.4 Misc

5. Power supply

6. OS.

7. The Sulawesi project.

7.1 Background
7.2 The Sulawesi Architecture
7.3 Sentence translations
7.4 Summary

8. `CLI` only

8.1 What is CLI?
8.2 Why does one talk about CLI here?
8.3 What can be done in text-mode?
8.4 Bunch of utilities
8.5 Aliases or scripts?

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.

14.1 The palm family.
14.2 PDAs runing Linux.

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. Nanotechnology: one step beyond.

19. Sources of Information.

19.1 Non commercial
19.2 Commercial.
19.3 Reading.

20. To do List.

21. Revision History.

22. Thanks and Credits.

23. Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks

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