Also, Howard Rheingold's article, which was originally slated to appear in Wired, has been picked up by Technology Review's online site: [snip] "Clothes Make the Network" http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_Rheingold120402.asp?p=1 Wearable computers create ad-hoc wireless communities. Gerd Kortuem likes a catchy tune, but considers himself clueless when it comes to seeking out new music. However, instead of asking his friends what they are listening to, his iPAQ PocketPC does it for him. Whenever Kortuem sits down with another participant in his ongoing experiments at the University of Oregon's Wearable Computing Lab, his iPAQ establishes a Wi-Fi link with his colleague's device. It checks the user's identity, and if the person is someone whose taste Kortuem has noted as trustworthy, it downloads an MP3 playlist ranked according to frequency of plays. Later, Kortuem culls through the lists he has harvested. "I rediscovered David Bowie and the Talking Heads," says the 38-year-old assistant professor, who recently moved to Lancaster University in England. "I knew I liked them, but I had forgotten all about them." [see link for rest of article] ...and on a related note, our very own Mel McGee (http://www.melmcgee.com/) makes an appearance in Howard's latest book, "Smart Mobs". See the weblog and related material and links at http://www.smartmobs.com/ Enjoy! Andrew. -- Andrew Plumb, VE3SLG mailto://andrew(at)plumb(dot)org http://www.plumb.org/tekmage/ Today's High: http://todayshigh.webhop.net/ Gnu/PGP: 4608A249 -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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