Fashion for Wearable Computers …
I have been putting together my own wearable computer over the last couple of years, and it’s getting real close now. One of the items that I have been looking at is the clothing that will contain a wearable PC. This is really going to become fashion, as demonstrated by Charmed and Levis … they get it! Even Nokia and the other cell phone vendors understand how electronics are becoming fashion as described in this article.

There are a couple of ways that this can be done, such as modifying existing clothing, or using a vest under a jacket. I have been looking at a couple of different sources for vests, including camera vests and fly-fishing vests. At our recent Novell Brainshare conference, Erin Quill and I did a presentation [Session IO148] on our work with Wearable Computers and using Novell’s ZENworks to manage them. We called the presentation Automated Management and Configuration of a Wearable Computer Workforce … it was a blast! One of the people that was attending our session was Mike Avery, Reviews Editor for Network World. He was wearing a really cool camera vest made by Domke, and he bought it here. I’m thinking that I am going to have to go buy one of these … it really seemed to have all of the pockets that I am after, and it’s a mesh vest for summer usage … cool stuff!