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In our "tech stuff you can wear on your head" section, we see that forbes.com has an article about these wearable displays that offer a "17-inch screen" of viewing area in a small enough attachment that would clip onto a normal pair of glasses, so you could glance over to view your Pocket PC or Computer. They mention how you'll be able to sit on a train or plane and watch your DVD movie with privacy and without having to strain your neck looking down at a small screen. "But the reality will probably be a lot more interesting. Thad Starner, an assistant professor of computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been using a heads-up display that he built, along with a wearable computer, since 1993. "I was wearing a mobile computer when laptops were just coming out, and people were wondering why anyone would want [a laptop]," he says. "That's because they were still thinking in terms of spreadsheets." Now, of course, most of us use laptops and PDAs to do all sorts of things on the go, including access the Internet.
Starner expects that the advent of mass-market floating displays will similarly expand what we do with mobile computers. He and his peers predict that someday we'll all be operating in "augmented reality" with the help of our wearable computers. All that really means is we'll eventually have the ability to bring the Web--or some form of it--with us wherever we go."
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