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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 15, 2012
If you frequented Kendall Square in the 1990s, you may have encountered one of the pioneers of wearable computing, students who ambled around Cambridge wearing special goggles with built-in cameras and display screens, toted computers in backpacks and messenger bags, and palmed special one-handed keypads so they could enter data. Sprouting wires everywhere, they looked like cyborgs late for a Halloween party.
Thad Starner (Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) was part of the bunch, who called themselves the “borgs.”
"It was clear to me that this was going to be a lifestyle that was compelling," says Starner, who began wearing a computer and display regularly in 1993. "Wherever I was, I could pull up local maps. I would learn stuff from having hallway conversations with other researchers, and I had a system that let me take notes to remember what they said." The rest of us, however, just weren’t ready to don computers.
