It’s an exciting time for the wearable-computing industry. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared in a recent interview that wearable computers were the next big thing for Silicon Valley, and the ...

Chip makers are responding to the hot wearable-computer trend with new processor designs as they also seize the opportunity to breathe life into existing chip technologies that previously failed to ...

Sometimes we come across a wild idea that really tries to re-imagine things, and re-conceiving wearable computing as a distributed system of “fiber computers” embedded into textiles is definitely that ...

When it comes to thinking up the next big thing, computer researchers at chipmaker Infineon look to dirty laundry for inspiration. Literally. Werner Weber, director of Infineon's Laboratory on ...

Pimoroni’s new Badgeware line of wearable electronics are basically high-tech replacements for paper badges that hang from a lanyard around your neck or “hi my name is” stickers you affix to your ...

Hitachi has promised that its wearable PC will begin shipping to customers in America and Japan this spring. However, Europeans will have to wait before they get the chance to buy the fashionable ...

Heavily funded through NASA and the non-profit SETI (Search for prototype `Mars suits’ built by Hamilton-Sundstrand, the makers of spacesuits for NASA. “Xybernaut equipment will help pioneer human ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Thad Starner, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, has been wearing his computer for nearly a decade. "Most people who stand in line at the airport are just waiting there, ...

Jeanne Gides is director of special services of the Coventry, Ohio, school district, and her school district has been testing wearable computers in the classroom for approximately one year. Assistive ...

Last year, Google announced the long-rumored Google Glass project, with developer versions of the device shipping out later this year. A minimalist design with a lens piece that essentially creates a ...

In the office, you can sit in front of a computer. Out in the field or in a warehouse, that’s not possible — but it is possible to wear one. “We increased our ...