{"id":16,"date":"2004-11-11T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=16"},"modified":"2004-11-11T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-11T23:49:54","slug":"wearable-computing-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Computing Goes Mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/layer8.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/girlshoodio.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=145,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Girlshoodio\" title=\"Girlshoodio\" src=\"http:\/\/layer8.typepad.com\/layer_8\/images\/girlshoodio.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"137\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Gaps+gadget+garment+blasts+your+favorite+tunes\/2100-1041_3-5448628.html?part=dht&#038;tag=ntop&#038;tag=nl.e433\" target=\"_blank\">News.com reports<\/a> that Gap will have a kids&#8217; fleece jacket with an integrated radio [speakers in the hood, hence it&#8217;s IMHO unfortunate name &#8211; &#8220;Hoodio&#8221;] in stores on Monday for $68.<\/p>\n<p>This is, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irobot.com\/consumer\/product_detail.cfm?prodid=18\" target=\"_blank\">the Roomba<\/a>, notable as it marks the first real application of a new technology in a form that could conceivably result in large scale adoption.  That&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Hoodie seems like a bit of a contradiction &#8212; it&#8217;s a jacket with integrated electronics, but it only lets you access a has-been medium (FM).   One can only hope that there&#8217;s a headphone jack for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPod<\/a> connection its users will certainly want (though integrated iPod controls would be so much cooler).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/portable-media\/index.php#gap-hoodio-jacket-with-builtin-radio-025466\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a> has more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com reports that Gap will have a kids&#8217; fleece jacket with an integrated radio [speakers in the hood, hence it&#8217;s IMHO unfortunate name &#8211; &#8220;Hoodio&#8221;] in stores on Monday for $68. This is, like the Roomba, notable as it marks the first real application of a new technology in a form that could conceivably result <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=16'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}