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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:26:40 -0400
From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
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Subject: [9fans] Wearables
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> lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> But if ever there was a market born to take best advantage of Plan9's long suit, 
> handheld, or 'wearable' has to be the most obvious contender, and on power nd 
> bandwidth consumption as much as CPU cycles or 'local' RAM capacity.
> 

A friend and I are starting a project to create a simple wearable computer. We've
got some hardware to get started; probably will begin with a laptop, our camera
viewfinder HMD, and a keyboard strapped around the waist (crude, I know) or 
some form of home-brewed chording device. I considered using Plan 9, but since
we don't plan to include a pointing device yet, and the viewfinder can only display
low resolutions and in black and white, I think we'll end up going with something
designed to be used 80x24 characters at a time... Linux. If somebody can present
me with some good reasons to use Plan 9 instead, we can try it, but I really
don't think Plan 9 actually is ideal for a wearable.

John