https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Thad_Starner%27s_wearable_computerThad Starner's wearable computer - Revision history2026-04-24T09:31:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Thad_Starner%27s_wearable_computer&diff=2929&oldid=prevCaseorganic at 18:27, 27 January 20112011-01-27T18:27:40Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Either I could pay attention in class to what the lecturer was saying and get some intuition about what was going on, or I could spend all my effort on writing notes. But I could not do both. So if I spent time paying attention to the lecturer, I would remember it for about two hours and feel like I actually understood the material. But after two hours, I couldn't remember a thing. If I spent time writing it down, I got no intuition. I got the material down off the whiteboard, but it meant nothing to me. And my handwriting was so bad that I even lost that after two weeks. I couldn't read my own notes.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The other thing I discovered was that most of my education was not coming from classes. It was coming from face-to-face conversations with the researchers, the grad students and professors that I met in the hallway, or working on my projects.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That's why I made a wearable computer. I started out with a laptop. A laptop of course doesn't work when you're walking around, and it also doesn't work well in a classroom. It turned out that having the laptop screen close to me meant that I was changing the physical focus of my eyes from very near (the laptop display) to very far for the whiteboard. That process took too much time. And even though I could type much faster than I could write, the change of physical focus slowed me down too much. I found a laptop couldn't do it.</ins></div></td></tr>
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