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...April 1, 1998, Yo-Yo Ma ’76 made a shocking announcement...
Crisis was averted when the network clarified that Ma, the world’s most famous cellist, was just helping out with its April Fool’s Day prank...
Problem No. 2 is price. The current model costs between $5,000 and $6,000, far too much for a personal computer no matter how high the cool factor. The thing is, the MA-IV isn't meant to replace your trusty iMac: it is an industrial tool. Xybernaut sells these machines - a few hundred, thus far - to companies that have a large, widely dispersed maintenance staff. Bell Canada's workers, for instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA...
...notion of wearables as a consumer product. "Why would you want to surf the Net or play a computer game while you walk around?" asks Schwartz, a genial 46-year-old who wears his skepticism lightly. "How would you survive crossing the street?" His argument against the MA-IV is that it simply takes a laptop computer and distributes its components around the body. The machine doesn't do anything that a laptop can't. He adds: "There are no compelling applications for wearable computers...
When I talk with Xybernaut's founder and president Edward Newman, 56, another Palm analogy comes up. The small, wiry, onetime CIA operative - who looks like he may burst from enthusiasm - believes the upcoming sixth-generation MA will appeal to "prosumers," the professionals who embraced the first Palm handhelds. "Those guys will show the way for the rest of the consumers," he says. Newman doesn't know this, but he's talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than...