Thursday, June 27, 2002
AAMAS Workshop on Ubiquitous AgentsFirst workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices to be held July 16 at the University of Bologna. Siemens, Univ of MD, Motorola, Zayed University are well represented.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
IBM Develops Digital Jewelry - IBM is developing digital jewelry as part of its "pervasive computing" project that's based on the idea that soon people will be connected everywhere. Among its prototypes is a necklace with a microphone, earrings with speakers to take your calls, and a watch and bracelet with screens to view text and images. Also in the pipeline are rings that glow different colors when particular user-selected events occur, such as a stock hitting a certain price. IBM also is working on a prototype in which a small eyepiece on a headband is the monitor and the central processing unit, that weighs less than a pound, clips to a belt.
