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Re: Hardware

 (Grant Stockly) wrote:
> I'm new to this (at least what I think it is) wearable computer list.  I'm
> very interested in something of this sort.  Is there a web page documenting
> one of these projects with pictures?
You have found this mailing list but not:
http://gn.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/
how come? 
and there are others like:
http://wile.thetech.org/~brudy/wearable.html
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/Oregon/
and commercial one like: http://www.xybernaut.com./
and http://www.dwave.net/~fwpc/

> I also want to ask what the object of this list is.  Is it to build a
> wearable computer to sell as profit, or is it to gain popularity on the
> internet for building the first best free design computer?
Here I speak completely from my own point of view. A lot of people on this
list, including myself, want a wearable, comfortable computer. All people
may not want to build. Some build because they are interrested in it,
som people build because they may be cheaper that way. And some people,
like the people started this list, build because that has been the only
way. Nowadays there are coming more and more opportunities for buying
ready to go (unfortunately ready to go with W95 or so...), I've seen
some of the commercial speaking about other unixs like SCO, but none has
mentioned Linux/GNU which is probably the best one suited for a wearable,
as for most computers, BUT that depends on you profession, interest
and need of course. No one should be expected to be using or forced
to be using a certain operative system. Everyone should choose the
one which is best suited for ones need and taste.

I guess that very few of the people on this list is going for constructing
something commercial. There are a lot out there doing this already.

	Best regards
	Roland Orre

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