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Apple Hires Expert in Wearable Computing

Forefront of technology; you're avin a laugh!!!

Lovely looking asthetically superb products yes, Apple at the forefront of computer technology :confused: ... don't make me laugh!

Sorry, but when you can't buy an Apple with a Blue Ray drive or a core i7 machine for less than £1,500 (and thats only just become available!), I'd hardly call them cutting edge! They cant even produce a mouse or keyboard to match the iMac (i.e. black keys)

... and before anyone says iPad ... its just a big iPod touch ... and the cutting edge is S/W not hardware ... if you can even say that seeing as it doesn't even run flash.

A BIG Hmmmmmm!
 
Duh don't you people get the whole iName since you'll eventually become the case. Joke two upgrades must suck
 
Just a curious one. Who else sees a wifi-z enabled 3D pair of sunglasses that you can use to "fully immerse yourself in the game" when using a mac. Imagine that. Safari in 3D lool:D

ptp
 
chadley_chad said:
you can't buy an Apple with a Blue Ray drive or a core i7 machine for less than £1,500
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Do you buy your dead horses by the crate or individually? And do you rent a truck to drag them out at every thread involving some form of new technology, or do you own one of your own for that purpose?
 
It's called the iPod Bio and it's install directly into your brain
 
"DeVaul will be working under Jonny Ive in a secret lab focused on wearable computing technology where only seven people besides Ive and CEO Steve Jobs know what he is doing."

i hope his mom is one of the seven.
 
iAndroid?
hopefully this goes beyond virtual reality simulations.
I wonder what "headgear" will refer to in 20 years?
 
ShiftyPig said:
Attention iPad fanboys: THIS would be a paradigm shift in computing.
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No one's calling the iPad a 'paradigm shift'. Put away your strawmen.
Its simply the first widely usable implementation of a tablet. That in itself is significant. Key word is 'usable'.
 
For a really good look at what a near future world with pervasive 'wearables' looks like, check out Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End". Good feel for what 'extended reality' really implies, and the POV's of users who've grown up with it vs older users being training in it is well thought out.
 
I love this story- clearly this is this guy's total wet dream of a job! His LinkedIn already links to apple.com.

Looks like a talented guy with lots of good ideas though. Maybe Jonny Ive can give him a helping hand with aesthetics.
 
I can see them now... iPanties! With 250Mb or 500Mb if you need more storage. Multitouch, videocamera, GPS and heat sensors.. Damm... can't wait! :rolleyes:
 
Ugh, I don't want to wear glasses that are constantly feeding my information.

And even still, how would you have a device that provides focusable information less than an inch from the eye overlaid on the real world? That's an optical nightmare, and I don't see any possible way for it to work.
 
chadley_chad said:
Lovely looking asthetically superb products yes, Apple at the forefront of computer technology :confused: ... don't make me laugh!

Sorry, but when you can't buy an Apple with a Blue Ray drive or a core i7 machine for less than £1,500 (and thats only just become available!), I'd hardly call them cutting edge! They cant even produce a mouse or keyboard to match the iMac (i.e. black keys)

... and before anyone says iPad ... its just a big iPod touch ... and the cutting edge is S/W not hardware ... if you can even say that seeing as it doesn't even run flash.

A BIG Hmmmmmm!
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Wow... Blu-Ray and Flash... the epitome of future technologies.
 
knewsom said:
Ugh, I don't want to wear glasses that are constantly feeding my information.

And even still, how would you have a device that provides focusable information less than an inch from the eye overlaid on the real world? That's an optical nightmare, and I don't see any possible way for it to work.
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Uh, where did anyone even say that's what this guy will be working on?
 
DotCom2 said:
I wish I could live another 100 years to see what freaky stuff people are using then.
Course, that's what they said a hundred years ago about us!
Garage doors that open by themselves??? "OH MY!" :)
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But it's never something cool like flying cars or freeways without traffic jams. It's always something banal like a garage door that raises itself, a remote control so you can turn your lights off while on vacation, or a phone that lets you talk to three people at once, all on crappy connections.

Rocketman

Futurist :D
 
knewsom said:
Ugh, I don't want to wear glasses that are constantly feeding my information.

And even still, how would you have a device that provides focusable information less than an inch from the eye overlaid on the real world? That's an optical nightmare, and I don't see any possible way for it to work.
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Infinity focus, like in heads up displays.

NT1440 said:
Uh, where did anyone even say that's what this guy will be working on?
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What else is he going to be working on? It's hard to say "wearable computer" and dodge the assumption that there will be a heads-up display involved, unless you're talking about a wrist computer.

Ive could handle putting an iPhone onto the wrist, they don't need this guy. This is the glasses guy.
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
What else is he going to be working on? It's hard to say "wearable computer" and dodge the assumption that there will be a heads-up display involved, unless you're talking about a wrist computer.

Ive could handle putting an iPhone onto the wrist, they don't need this guy. This is the glasses guy.
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Take a look into Sixth Sense technology.
 
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