1978 Eudaemonic Enterprises

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the first digital shoe computer
1978 Eudaemonic Enterprises invents a digital wearable computer in a shoe to predict roulette wheels [Eudaemonic Enterprises] Using a CMOS 6502 microprocessor with 5K RAM, Eudaemonic Enterprises (Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard, and others) created a shoe computer with toe-control and inductive radio communications with between a data taker and better.

Taken From: Bradley Rhodes, "A Brief History of Wearable Computing" http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/timeline.html

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