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Re: Commercial wearable

"R. Paul McCarty" <> wrote:
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>> http://www.dwave.net/~fwpc/
> This looks strikingly like the via wearable, I wonder if this is the form
> factor all commercial wearables are going to take.  Not a bad form factor,
> but its a difficult package to try to create with a homebuilt wearable.

I guess that it is not the best package for serious permanent usage either.
To be able to wear the computer at least 15-20 hours per day it should fit
comfortable and not be an obstacle. A belt like the VIA computer and some
other may be that. For a reasonable long time, however, there will be a lot
of people that will only use their wearable in their job, but not as their
ubiquitous sensory and brain extension, in the same way as there are a lot
of people today that have chosen to only use computers at their job and not
use them at home. For those people I guess that the belt-version, like VIA
will be much used.

For us others, were the wearable will be/is a more or less integrated part
of us, like glasses, watch, socks etc, we need something more comfortable.
For my own I will make a westcoat version were the weight and size of
batteries and and all the hardware will be rather well distributed on
all sides of the body. 

I have one problem though. Cooling! I intend to go for the P54-133 CardPC
but that little thing dissipates some heat and is specified to use a fan,
but I don't like fans. All my computers except my lap make a lot of noise
due to the fans, which may be silent in the beginning but soon start to
rise their noise, often after just a couple of days usage.
I don't want any noise from my wearable!

Has anyone any experience with some passive soft cooling material that
could, e.g. be spread out over the westcoat?

Has anyone any experience with liquid cooling for wearables?

	Best regards
	Roland Orre

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