You Might Wear Computing's Next Wave
From: Associated Press - 10/12/2007
By: Brian Bergstein

At the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computing in Boston,
several research teams displayed electronic devices that could soon be worn
by everyday people, including miniaturized displays that attach to eyepieces.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers displayed a stretchable,
thread-like sensor that can be woven into fabric to monitor the wearer.
University of Bremen researcher Stephane Beauregard displayed a shoe sensor
with tiny accelerometers that can be used to provide real-time location
tracking in places that satellite navigation systems cannot reach or are
inaccurate. Beauregard plans to market the sensor to firefighters and other
emergency responders. MIT graduate students wore plastic badges that could
analyze several behaviors, including motion and speech patterns, which could
be wirelessly sent to a computer or phone and analyzed. Carsten Mehring of
the Colorado School of Mines demonstrated a prototype glove with sensors that
can control portable music devices with minute finger movements, allowing for
eye-free control during activities such as snow boarding or driving. 

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Links:
International Symposium on Wearable Computing
http://www.iswc.net/

Pedestrian Navigation  
http://www.xsens.com/index.php?mainmenu=applications&submenu=human_motion&subsubmenu=pedestrian_navigation

Carsten Mehring
http://egweb.mines.edu/faculty/CarstenMehring.htm

Tech's next wave? You could be wearing it
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21270358/