An International Symposium on Wearable Computers, in Boston, was held yesterday, Oct. 12th.

Products, some ready for mainstream commercial production and some not -

Kobe University - wearable piano keyboard that allows Japanese to type characters faster than using a QWERTY keyboard. 

I reckon you could wear the thing if you had strong

neck muscles.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Techonology introduced  "stretchable, threadlike sensors that can be woven into shirts to detect their wearers' posture." Aim is to help those with back pain.

Germany's University of Bremen - "shoe-borne sensor whose tiny accelerometers perform electronic dead reckoning — providing real-time location tracking in places satellite navigation systems either can't reach or can't describe with precision."  Firefighters and emergency responders won't get lost.

MIT - "black plastic badges around their necks that analyze multiple factors — including motion and speech patterns." Are you really listening to me? And to set up office space.

Colorado School of Mines - "embedded sensors into gloves so that snowboarders or motorists could control portable music devices with the faintest squeeze of their fingers." Wear your remote, not carry it. Nike are you interested?

What would you like computers to do for you? 

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Wearable Computing at Boston International Symposium