Ok, now I'm getting even more excited about the prospect of a wearable PC.

Pen with camera or USB stick. Watches with running Linux in a small ARM... surely a lot of gadgets are computers each with moderate functionality... but PC... hmm, bit big and bloated huh

Saw this today: neat concept!

integrated into the world around them? seems to me, humans have been quite integrated into the world around them for thousands of years WITHOUT electronics. the man on the bus talking on his cell phone, the teenager playing his nintendo ds in the mall, and the child watching a movie on an airplane are totally disconnected from the world around them.

this kind of technology might actually cause people to submerge even deeper into the virtual electronic world and blind them from the world around them. they'er going to use this kind of device to ESCAPE the world around them--to play games, chat with their friends, and check their e-mail. internet access makes the world around you irrelevant. wherever you are, the internet is the same.

hey, don't get me wrong. i love being submerged, disconnected, distracted, what-have-you. i just found it a bit amusing and thought-provoking that they would make a statement like that. they were "thinking about how a person could be more integrated into the world around them" by manipulating the world around them with this augmented reality--projected images from the internet, an inorganic, cold, digital surreality. a strange concept, i think. a strange connection to make, and an interesting--possibly absurd, possibly revolutionary--way of thinking about gadgets and the internet....

Hey, I've been tinkering with this idea some more and came across a rather interesting way to hack the bluetooth connection to get the effect I want.

Currently the bluetooth device can only do single connections at a time. That's not a problem. Keyboards and mice (or other control devices) only really need to transmit and the device only really needs to receive. Video devices only need to receive but not transmit. If my assumption is right, you should be able to pair two devices and make the bluetooth transmitter think they're one. That way you can connect two devices at once, and get both your video for your display visor (vudu style) and take your input from a mouse, keyboard, or other improvised control device.

The tablet can handle multiple bluetooth devices at ones.

I have had my N800 connected to the net via my phone using bluetooth, at the same time as im typing stuff using a bluetooth keyboard.

when I go to the gym everyday, or so, about one in five patrons is wearing a ipod touch, watching videos, music of course, sometimes surfing, about another twenty percent,or so, have iphones strapped to their arms, doing all the above plus talking...kinda annoying...anyways in California a lot of the people wear mobile computers already ...most from Apple

Yeah, but this isn't a mobile device like what we have now. It's got full hands free IO and either a HUD of some kind or a visor display. What we have now is ok, but we need to take it up a level, sort of like the IBM wearable pc ad from the 80's.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22838/

We just got another piece to the puzzle.

and i think vuzix has a new pair of glasses on the way...
http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_wrap920av.html