Whereables?

d4 asks: "Thad Starner has been using a wearable computer daily since 1993, and Steve Mann has had an impressive amount of press coverage over the years. But if you want wearable computing in 2005, it seems you must build your own system. Why, after all this time and attention, are wearables still not commercially available?"

Reboot?

[orangeguru]

I don't want to reboot by pants! And I don't want a virus in my jacket ...

Because

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Even geeks want to try and find a date!

Why I don't use wearable computers Reason #1:

[rocjoe71]

I can't use wearable computers since my tie keeps getting caught in the CPU fan.

Where...able ?

[Wudbaer]

Where did I leave my frigging whereable ? Maybe I look it up on my wearable.

Re:Reboot?

[a1englishman]

A virus in your pants sounds far worse.

One more.

[jfisherwa]

4. Basements- Having a wearable computer would mean that geeks would actually have to enter the unforgiving world that awaits beneath the scorching sun.

Re:Because

[gstoddart]

Even geeks want to try and find a date!

Obviously neither of the two gentlemen listed in the story -- think Harold from Red Green gone horribly wrong.

The reason that there are no wearables.

[bastardoperator]

This is the reason why there are no wearable Heat problems [theregister.co.uk]

Many alternates

[krikat]

Wearables haven't become popular because the people that would possibly use wearables realized that rather than wearing an expensive computer, they can wear armor or a startrek uniform and still look like just as much of a jackass.

Re:a solution in search of an application

[Defender of Property]

How appropriate that a pirate, a thief, a vandal of intellectual property rights such as yourself, would advance such a criminally stupid argument.

Re:Three words...

[ferkelparade]

> If you have to stop surfing to cross the road

There's a chicken joke somewhere in there, but I can't quite lay my fingers on it...