You Might Wear Computing's Next Wave

October 13, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN , AP Technology Writer You Might Wear Computing's Next Wave (AP)

Yochinari Takegawa, of Kobe University, in Kobe, Japan, wears a heads-up display while exhibiting a system that uses a wearable piano keyboard to allows a user to type Japanese characters faster than on a QWERTY keyboard during the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, in Boston, Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

(AP) -- From clothes riddled with sensors to name tags that detect our moods, computing's next wave could unleash small devices that increasingly augment everyday activities with digital intelligence.



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