Dont know?, but its always the way of such companies to outline users such as
the police, medical, firefighters etc....
The problem for users like these is in emergency situations they dont really
have time to use technology like wearable computers. Their knowledge is expert
and comes from years of training and experience of dealing with emergency
situations quickly in the most effective way. Recently having gone to A&E it
is difficult to see why any one would want to develope a wearable system for
emergency staff they dont have time ...
Farmers ??? Who knows (perhaps it tells them where to plant their potatoes)..
I thought the biggest user group at the moment was Communications engineers at
Bell...
Who on this mailing list actually uses a wearable computer ?
Alan
> Kayoko Tanaka, a PR staff member of Pioneer, tries
> on a prototype of a wearable computer, a jacket with
> a built-in display in its sleeve in Tokyo Thursday,
> June 5, 2003. Using an organic film electro-luminescent
> (EL) display, the wearable computer is being developed
> with a new information technology by a collaboration of
> academic institutes and electronic companies. The development
> is expected to help medical, firefighting, and farming
> workers. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
"expected to help medical, firefighting, and farming workers." !!!
What about everyone else? These 3 markets are not very big consumers of
wearable computing products. I wonder why they were chosen as target
markets.
-Tony
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