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Wearable-HOWTO.

Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juéry <trollhunter@linuxfr.org>

v0.0.9 November 2000

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Nomadism is one of the major trends of our society, now most of the people can work with a laptop computer, but few did the next step: to live, or if you prefer to wear one computer that is a wearable.

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1. Foreword

2. What is a Wearable anyway ?

3. Advocacy

• 3.1 Why ?
• 3.2 The Wearable concept is not a revolution, it is just an evolution.
• 3.3 The Wearable may give its user an edge.
• 3.4 The Wearable concept: a stealth menace.
• 3.5 Wearable computing: an emerging industry.

4. What CPU ?

• 4.1 PDA based Wearables
• 4.2 PC/104 and laptop based Wearables.
• 4.3 Transmeta's processor the Crusoe.
• 4.4 Misc

5. Power supply

6. OS.

7. The Sulawesi project.

• 7.1 Background
• 7.2 The Sulawesi Architecture
• 7.3 Sentence translations
• 7.4 Summary

8. CLI only

• 8.1 What is CLI?
• 8.2 Why does one talk about CLI here?
• 8.3 What can be done in text-mode?
• 8.4 Bunch of utilities
• 8.5 Aliases or scripts?

9. Input

• 9.1 Variations around the keyboard

10. Audio Output

11. Visual Output

• 11.1 Head Down displays.
• 11.2 Head UP displays

12. Comms

13. How can I have my Wearable ?

• 13.1 Commercial Solutions.
• 13.2 Do it yourself.

14. PalmPilot and its clone ( IBM, HandSpring, TRG ): a new breed of wearables.

• 14.1 The palm family.
• 14.2 PDAs runing Linux.

15. How to carry my wearable ?

16. Applications with Wearables.

• 16.1 In the army now.
• 16.2 At the hospital
• 16.3 With the firefighters
• 16.4 Wearable for the disabled.

17. A borg's life.

18. Nanotechnology: one step beyond.

19. Sources of Information.

• 19.1 Non commercial
• 19.2 Commercial.
• 19.3 Reading.

20. To do List.

21. Revision History.

22. Thanks and Credits.

23. Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks

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