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# Wearable-HOWTO.

## Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juéry <trollhunter@linuxfr.org>

v0.0.9 November 2000

Nomadism is one of the major trends of our society, now most of the people can work with a laptop computer, but few did the next step: to live, or if you prefer to wear one computer that is a wearable.

## 1. Foreword

## 2. What is a Wearable anyway ?

## 3. Advocacy

- 3.1 Why ?
- 3.2 The Wearable concept is not a revolution, it is just an evolution.
- 3.3 The Wearable may give its user an edge.
- 3.4 The Wearable concept: a stealth menace.
- 3.5 Wearable computing: an emerging industry.

## 4. What CPU ?

- 4.1 PDA based Wearables
- 4.2 PC/104 and laptop based Wearables.
- 4.3 Transmeta's processor the Crusoe.
- 4.4 Misc

## 5. Power supply

## 6. OS.

## 7. The Sulawesi project.

- 7.1 Background
- 7.2 The Sulawesi Architecture
- 7.3 Sentence translations
- 7.4 Summary

## 8. `CLI` only

- 8.1 What is `CLI`?
- 8.2 Why does one talk about `CLI` here?
- 8.3 What can be done in text-mode?
- 8.4 Bunch of utilities
- 8.5 Aliases or scripts?

## 9. Input

- 9.1 Variations around the keyboard

## 10. Audio Output

## 11. Visual Output

- 11.1 Head Down displays.
- 11.2 Head UP displays

## 12. Comms

## 13. How can I have my Wearable ?

- 13.1 Commercial Solutions.
- 13.2 Do it yourself.

## 14. PalmPilot and its clone ( IBM, HandSpring, TRG ): a new breed of wearables.

- 14.1 The palm family.
- 14.2 PDAs runing Linux.

## 15. How to carry my wearable ?

## 16. Applications with Wearables.

- 16.1 In the army now.
- 16.2 At the hospital
- 16.3 With the firefighters
- 16.4 Wearable for the disabled.

## 17. A borg's life.

## 18. Nanotechnology: one step beyond.

## 19. Sources of Information.

- 19.1 Non commercial
- 19.2 Commercial.
- 19.3 Reading.

## 20. To do List.

## 21. Revision History.

## 22. Thanks and Credits.

## 23. Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks

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