Consolidation

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

Gadget creep sucks.
Consolidating applications into an integrated context-aware environment allows for the elimination of redundant batteries, wireless network interfaces, packaging, etc. More importantly, it allows a top-level attention manager to broker all of these applications to make the best possible use of the wearer's personal bandwidth.

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Introduction to Wearable Computing
Richard W. DeVaul
The second annual "I Wanna Be a Cyborg" event, a borglab production.