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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:33:00 +0200
From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Wearables
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hello

import wearable_thing_in_front_of_me /n/friend
cp $home/images/friendly_foto.jpg /n/friend

:-?

may be you can speak with Nemo, i think the wearable thing is just the
same work they are doing with planb/plan-c?, so he probably has not
only ideas, but experiencies in doing such things.

slds.

gabi


On 5/17/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> > 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
>
>