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If the Computer Fits, Wear it!
Wearable pioneers Thad Starner and Greg Priest-Dorman in conversation with Museum’s Internet History Program Founder Marc Web
- When
- Mon Aug 3, 2015
- Where
- Computer History Museum
- Time
- 12 pm
- Cost
- Free
- Tags
- Museums, Science Museums, Technology, Multimedia
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Description
Pioneers have experimented with wearing computers for half a century. Yet aside from a few specialized applications like fitness trackers, our bodies remain largely free of the smart tech that fills our pockets and purses.Why? Besides larger questions around how wearable computing might fit into our everyday lives, the technology wasn't ready. Early devices were too bulky, hot, isolated, or hard to use to be consumer products. But that may be changing.
Thad Starner and Greg Priest-Dorman are major pioneers of consumer wearable computing, and early members of the Google Glass team. They also share another unique qualification – they have been wearing computers in their daily lives since the early 1990s.
The traveling exhibit we are hosting this summer, On You: A Story of Wearable Computing, shows consumer, professional, and home-made devices. Curated at Georgia Tech by Starner and design researcher Clint Zeagler, the exhibit explores the four key technical hurdles to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. Have they been solved?
Come find out on August 3, and learn more the technology that yearns to be on you!
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