Real Life Examples and Research

Real Life Examples and Research
a few representative platforms and applications


`The Lizzy`	the first MIT general-purpose wearable http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/lizzy/index.html The Lizzy was designed by Thad Starner and Doug Platt at the MIT Media Lab back in 1992/3
`Bradley Rhodes Remembrance Agent`	why your editor needs context Remembrance Agents are a set of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situation. While query-based memory aids help with direct recall, remembrance agents are an augmented associative memory. http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/
`Thad Starner's Swarm of Locusts`	IR localization, privacy, and a cool name The Locust infrared system provides inexpensive messaging and location information without batteries and without its own network.
`US Army Land Warrior System`	soldiers need wearables, too Land Warrior program is the US Army's program to modernize the soldier by providing a highly integrated body worn system which integrates into a close combat fighting system to enhance the soldiers situational awareness, mobility, and training.
`Task Specific Wearables`	The Wearable Operator's Assistant. CMU and Inmedious, Inc A wearable computing system designed specifically to enhance Shell oil rig technicians capability to perform their job.

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Bradford J Snow and Richard W. DeVaul

The second annual "I Wanna Be a Cyborg" event, a borglab production.