Well, Eye’Ll Be

Sat., Nov. 27, 1999

Japanese camera maker Olympus and the Japanese unit of IBM came out with a prototype “Wearable PC” on Friday and said the gadget could hit stores soon. The firms developed the machine for those who can’t be bothered to carry laptops around. The 13-ounce computer has an Intel Pentium processor, 64 megabytes of memory and runs the Microsoft Windows operating system. The tiny screen flips out from a headset and covers one eye, projecting the image of a much larger monitor. A banana-shaped handle with a touchpad and two buttons is used to select icons in the “Eye Trek” virtual screen. The Wearable PC doesn’t have a keyboard yet, but users can open and look at files and play audio and video.

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