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...Kevin S. Schwartz' 01 will receive the Sophia Fruend prize today, an honor awarded each year to the highest ranked summa cum laude graduate in the College...
...David Schwartz...
...everybody thinks Xybernaut is on to a sure thing, though. Over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, scientist Steven Schwartz and researcher Richard DeVaul scoff at the 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...
...work as a "mental prosthesis" for people with memory and recognition difficulties, like those who have suffered a stroke or are in the early stages of dementia. "For a product to be viable in the marketplace, it has to have some sort of specific benefit to humanity," says Schwartz...
...think Schwartz and DeVaul are missing the point. Wearable computers, when they are mass-produced, will be a consumer product, not just a work tool. Their allure will lie not in their utility but in their look and feel. Nobody needs a personal computer to be tangerine-colored and lodged in a translucent plastic shell, but try telling that to the millions who have bought Apple's iMac. The academicians are also under-estimating the attraction of ultra-portability. In the public consciousness, wearables are the logical future - the destiny, if you like - of computing. Think of all those neat...