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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...
...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...
...gray-and-black three-armed wonder connected to a console that doesn't have anything witty to say. It looks exactly like what it is: a machine. But by allowing doctors to access and see parts of the body as never before - without large, open incisions - this tool is speaking the language of surgery in a whole...
...restrict Internet access. But Web users can easily use "anonymizer" sites to circumvent the blockers and surf freely and in secret. "Our technology restricts the ability of governments to censor the Internet," says Stephen Hsu, founder and CEO of an anonymizer called SafeWeb, from where users can load a tool for blocking traces onto their browser windows before they begin surfing. "It promotes freedom of expression and the right to privacy...
Within two years, FAhraeus predicts, most network operators will follow Vodaphone's lead. The Anoto concept gives them a cool new service to offer subscribers - and a way to collect new fees. Paper-makers, naturally, are sold on the prospect of turning their centuries-old product into a digital tool for a fraction of a cent per sheet...