All I really want is a network connection, an 80 chars wide Emacs terminal in the window and a chording keyboard strapped to my hand. This assumes a small Linux (BSD?) distro installed. The rest is trivial.
(Iirc, this is a setup one of Mann's students had.)
Edit: OK, I do want a camera too. And video log. And... But 80+% of usability would come from Emacs lisp (or short scripts run from shell)
Edit 2: Love HN. I comment about a setup I read about years ago and have been waiting for buying the hardware -- and of course get answers (I assume that w/out employment contracts, they would have been more detailed). Thanks.
I'm not sure if he still uses it, but when I met him some years ago, Thad Starner (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/) had a chording keyboard hooked up to a HUD emacs.
I remember thinking at the time that it was a very "MIT" take on Ubicomp, a community that is otherwise pretty strongly infused with an Apple-esque "intuitive interface" ethos.
Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time.
... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on Glass.
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks.
Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers. The first item in the papers section (Using Physical Context..., 2003) describes all the extra stuff that the wearable version does.
Goal-wise this reminds me of the Memex [1], albeit with automated creation and display of associative trails.
I wonder, though, if the manner in which it presents information in the Emacs UI (namely, as a list of headlines over a part of the screen that is continuously updated) could worsen understanding and natural memorization in the way some research shows news tickers on television do [2].
emacs sucked, though -- it was a pretty good case for vi, due to the control keys not working well with the versions I used. but it looks like they fixed that.
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All I really want is a network connection, an 80 chars wide Emacs terminal in the window and a chording keyboard strapped to my hand. This assumes a small Linux (BSD?) distro installed. The rest is trivial.
(Iirc, this is a setup one of Mann's students had.)
Edit: OK, I do want a camera too. And video log. And... But 80+% of usability would come from Emacs lisp (or short scripts run from shell)
Edit 2: Love HN. I comment about a setup I read about years ago and have been waiting for buying the hardware -- and of course get answers (I assume that w/out employment contracts, they would have been more detailed). Thanks.
I'm not sure if he still uses it, but when I met him some years ago, Thad Starner (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/) had a chording keyboard hooked up to a HUD emacs.
I remember thinking at the time that it was a very "MIT" take on Ubicomp, a community that is otherwise pretty strongly infused with an Apple-esque "intuitive interface" ethos.
Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time.
... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on Glass.
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks.
Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers. The first item in the papers section (Using Physical Context..., 2003) describes all the extra stuff that the wearable version does.
Goal-wise this reminds me of the Memex [1], albeit with automated creation and display of associative trails.
I wonder, though, if the manner in which it presents information in the Emacs UI (namely, as a list of headlines over a part of the screen that is continuously updated) could worsen understanding and natural memorization in the way some research shows news tickers on television do [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
[2] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08838158509386593, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/stgeorge/artofscientificpresentation...
The old-school (mid-90s) chording input device was the "twiddler"
http://www.handykey.com/
emacs sucked, though -- it was a pretty good case for vi, due to the control keys not working well with the versions I used. but it looks like they fixed that.