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Commercial Aspects of Wearable Computing

Cadex battery chargers
If you use batteries, you will need to charge them. Cadex offers chargers for every type of batteries you might chance upon.

Electrofuel Batteries
A battery with spectacular energy density available in a flexible form factor. This is ideal source of energy for your wearable computer.

Ampro computers
Ampro invented the PC/104, PC/104-Plus and EBX standards and hence sell both as well as accessories. They've been around for a while and say they are the leading supplier of embedded PC's.

Credit card sized single board computers
Just like the title says, EMJ Embedded Systems sells 486 to P299 computers the size of a credit card.

Jumptec DIMM-PC's
Jumptec's smallest computers which are smaller than credit cards and come with several different options

Jumptec PC-104 computers
Jumptec has PC-104 standard computers in addition to the credit card computers. A more reasonable price than the DIMM-PC's but you have to sacrifice size.

Ruputer
Not exactly what we all have in mind when we think of a wearable computer, the ruputer is in their words a 'Full-scale wrist-type information terminal'. It is better known to general public as watch.

TIQIT matchbox computers
If you thought EMJ had the smallest, look again. TIQIT has a matchbox sized computer. Weighing in a 3.3 oz's and dimension's of 70x50x24mm this tiny computer is easily wearable.

Circus Systems Wearable
Although in developing stage, this young upstart promises to sell its systems to the public as early as 2001. We'll keep our eyes on them.

Cyberknight Voice Activated Head Mounted Computer
Genesis Technology Group created a Xybernaut (see below) clone. Generally providing for the US Government, this company is likely to be around for quite some time.

ViA II PC
From the Creators of 'Computers that fit people': Their latest, the ViA II PC.

Xybernaut MA-IV
The Xybernaut Mobile Assistant IV is the latest in the line of commerically available wearable computers from Xybernaut.

IBM Microdrives
IBM has released one inch hard drive with over a gigabyte of capacity.



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