Apple Hires Expert in Wearable Computing

[Cloudane]

This should solve all those statements of "If you don't shut that damn iPhone up, you're going to end up wearing it"

 

[Minimoose 360]

iShades.


That will be the name.

 

[SandynJosh]

Has an infinity focus HUD ever successfully been integrated into an eyepiece? I've never seen it - please correct me if I'm wrong.

...and regarding the 6th sense stuff... I REALLY don't want to walk around with a lanyard projecting stuff. Interesting concept, but I'd much rather use an augmented reality device like an iPhone for something like that.

Don't worry... you will like what this guy comes up with. Trust me, I've seen it.

 

[Gleemen]

 

[woohoo]

are we seeing something like this in the future??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg

 

[Stately]

Attention iPad fanboys: THIS would be a paradigm shift in computing.

Lol, I hear ya. I think the ipad is a paradigm shift of sorts. For example, it's helping to change the face of the way we use computers. However, I agree with you in that it is not at all where many were hoping it would be as far as functionality.

 

[ShiftyPig]

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'.

Ahem.....

Apple's iPad has been felt to represent this shift to an easier computing paradigm.[/url]

As a developer whose company has spent the better part of the past 2 years figuring out how to effectively utilize the real estate of an iPhone screen, I can say that it is really, really awkward to be designing for iPad and running into situations where you literally can't figure out what to do with all of that extra space.

It's a different paradigm to which developers will adjust, but I would expect for the first round of iPad-specific apps to include a lot of interfaces that just feel strange.

The content paradigm begins to unfold.

It would be nice if this announcement might finally make it apparent to the iPad detractors that the device is about content, not hardware...

I simply enjoy the adventure on the Mac forums as Apple continually advances computing and bring paradigm shifts to the industry.

Needless to say, I think that the iPad will be very successful, and that would go for the copycats as well.

It's a whole new paradigm, but what I really want is a Mac Pro with Sandy Bridge architecture.

This kind of fixed idea of yours makes you a dinosaur. It's like you're not hearing anything that Apple is saying here. They've developed a whole new computing paradigm based on multi-touch which will fundamentally change how many of us think of and use a computer.

Good, at least a couple of others in this thread who see what I'm seeing: a new paradigm, one not meant for the techies who have ruled the roost in computing up until now. This is the start of the next era, and that era will be ruled by common folks who don't know about computers, but sure do know how to use their fingers.

Put your precious little strawmen insult away. 215,000 Google results... strawmen... just laughable.

 

[pubwvj]

iBrain

Brain implants anyone?

Always on.
Always connected.
Always computing.

iCybrog!

 

[powers74]

design

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the concept per se. I just don't believe we want to be taking advice about what to wear from Comic Book Guy.

Which is why he is working directly with Ive.

 

[patseguin]

Next Apple will change its name to Graystone Industries.

 

[Stately]

are we seeing something like this in the future??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg

WHOOOOOOA ! I was with you for a while there . . Did I hear at the end what I thought I heard?!?! BRAIN IMPLANTS? No thanks, I rather lug around an ipad with 3g connectivity and have disrupted service and lag times in loading. Ain't touchin MY brain.

 

[CJM]

imPlant

You heard it first here, kids ;D

 

[JGowan]

Wow! He looks like a young Peter Jackson!!!!

 

[theLastBeatle]

This is the hire I'm least excited about.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the concept per se. I just don't believe we want to be taking advice about what to wear from Comic Book Guy.

He's working under Jon Ive. I dont think Apple hired him for the product design.

 

[guzhogi]

a tiny display capable of providing users with non-intrusive and even subliminal information to assist them with memory-related tasks.

Personally, I prefer liminal and super-liminal* information.










*Bonus points if you get the Simpsons reference

 

[broncopde]

Gossip

"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.

I'm sure she's not because she would no doubt want to brag to her friends about what her son was accomplishing.

 

[goobot]

the new iglasses

 

[BigJimmyC]

The Apple i-Eye.

There already is such a thing, just not invented by apple. Evolution beat apple to the punch, and the name's already taken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye

 

[JohMai]

Sad

Further evidence that Apple has turned from useful professional computers to gadgetry.

Where the hell is the MacPro update???

 

[pmz]

The iPatch

 

[Bubba Satori]

How about hiring somebody to get Apple to sell upto date and affordable computers.

 

[jordanh91]

Hmmm, glass that displays information? Sci-Fi too much?


inb4 Saiyan scouter with a reading of over 9000.

WHAT 9000?!

I for one welcome whatever upcoming geeky awesomeness Apple has in store for us... As long as it's not just a "hobby".

 

[3282868]

How about hiring somebody to get Apple to sell upto date and affordable computers.

It would be nice to see Apple re-focus on their computers instead of the next iDevice for the masses. THe displays haven't been revamped since 2003, except for the 24" LED LCD, which is primarily for notebooks.

I have Blu-Ray in my Mac Pro, and while OS X reads/writes data to Blu-Ray discs, until iTunes sells in full 1080P HD, nothing surpasses Blu-Ray movies. I'm sure there is something in the works for better HD quality in iTunes and for wireless content, but until that day comes.

 

[urbanlung]

Novel concept: A wearable iPad.

That reallty would be a sanitary towel.

It's called the iPod Bio and it's install directly into your brain

BiPod

 

[Gold89]

Lovely looking asthetically superb products yes, Apple at the forefront of computer technology ... 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!

This is the reason Apple is at the forefront, concentrating on the important products