1966 Eudaemonic Pie

 MIThril, a borglab production. Richard W. DeVaul, Jonathan Gips, Michael Sung, Sandy Pentland

Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon are really smart
1966 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon reveal their invention of the first wearable computer, used to predict roulette wheels [MIT]

The system was a cigarette-pack sized analog computer with 4 push buttons. A data-taker would use the buttons to indicate the speed of the roulette wheel. and the computer would then send tones via radio to a bettor's hearing aid.

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A Short History of Wearable Computers
Bradford J Snow and Richard W. DeVaul
The second annual "I Wanna Be a Cyborg" event, a borglab production.