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Re: Sleeve display, who uses a wearable on this list

I'm working on an article on Police Gargoyles for http://igargoyle.com/ .
This kind of information is great to include in the article. Does anyone
have any more input I might want to review?

Thanks,
Tom Longson (nym)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barr" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Sleeve display, who uses a wearable on this list

> Doug wrote:
>  > Can you wash those displays? Don't medical people
>  > have to change garments all the time?
>
> Umm, I thought the obvious solution was a plastic
> window in the sleeve, through which the display is
> viewed/accessed.  Access to remove the display is
> through the inside of the sleeve.
>
>  wrote:
> > Dont know?, but its always the way of such companies to outline users
such as
> > the police, medical, firefighters etc....
>
> I worked for a company that sold to the Law Enforcement and
> Corrections market.  What I could figure out is that the logic
> works like this: sometimes these organizations will get budgets
> with funds specifically set aside for equipment, instead of
> personnel.  These organizations also talk to each other and
> periodically try to adopt common equipment.  So in theory if
> you can get some adoptions of your product you have the chance
> to win a lot more sales through word of mouth.
>
> > The problem for users like these is in emergency situations they dont
really
> > have time to use technology like wearable computers.
>
> 1. Aren't a lot of police already using radios in a wearable
> configuration ("handset" mounted high on shirt)?
>
> 2. Emergency situations are not the bulk of police and
> medical workers time on the job.
>
> > 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 ...
>
> Police could be wearing a video recording system for all
> calls, like some police cars have for traffic stops.
>
> A HMD could show the view through a back-mounted camera to
> help decrease the chances they are attacked successfully
> from behind.  This could be the default view, HMD as rear
> view mirror.  This is something I want to try.
>
> The system could scan the barcode on a drivers license and
> automatically display outstanding warrants on the person.
>
> Likewise medical workers could scan the patient wristband
> or file barcode and have patient data displayed.
>
> Any computerized instrument could broadcast its display
> and it could be automatically displayed by the wearable
> which through geolocation decides it is in proximity to
> the instrument.
>
> None of those uses require much, if any training.
>
> Firefighters could have a display for showing alerts on
> oxygen remaining, rate of temperature change, and toxic
> fume % change.  It could also show location of other
> team members, floor plan of building, that sort of thing
>
> > Who on this mailing list actually uses a wearable computer ?
>
> Ask again in a month. :-)
>
> Steve
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>
>
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