@Vonskippy I know it doesn’t mean having an obvious protrusion on your face obstructing your vision.

Other than that misrepresentation, I like how he powers it through the USB hub first, then the board and periph.’s just draw from there

@kirov: I don’t think they researched why this display technology failed in the 90s ^^. It just looks cool. He’s suppose to be a wealthy A.I. researcher according to his blog..

Nice setup so far, but a diode in series with the battery? You have to be kidding me. At least buy a MintyBoost – or, even better, build a switchmode power supply yourself. It’s not that hard, try a MC34063 for instance.

-Ferdinand

Dunno why my comments are getting eaten, but for the last time:

“@Vonskippy, I totally agree, this is anything BUT elegant.”

I took apart a pair of videoglasses i got on woot and there is a board between the two lensed video screens. it is easy enough to dis connect, but i dont see where he would have stashed that bit of hardware in the monacle…

Electronic birth control…

ok, its not that elegant looking, but you can run Ubuntu from sd card on those beagleboards! full wearable desktop pc

@vonskippy – elegance – a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem

So elegant looking? No
Elegant design? I’d say yes (especially like what Erik J said about it being powered solely through the USB hub)

why does that guy look pissed off?

maybe he was reading the comments on HAD :D

@D_

Definitely look at the new MX version of the beagleboard: double the MIPs and quadruple the RAM for just $30 more.

But definitely consider how you would be using it. A netbook already has a battery, charging system, input and display done. The beagle is just the base.

borg fail

@alex: They don’t know what you mean. Anyway, if he was, his shirt would be magnolia like the wall…

interestingly the aspire one aoa150 motherboards frequently break with BIOS and/or power connector problems, both of which can easily be fixed.

The video out port can be “kludged” using a 2404 e2prom soldered to the relevant pins on the back of the VGA connector so the output is “always on”.
to obtain the code find a broken lcd monitor with one of these and salvage the chip then copy code onto spare chip(s) from old motherboards or graphics cards.

rumour has it that you can simulate TV-Out on the A1 by hacking the description code in this chip to specify a compatible sync range.

So, uh…what do you use it for, other that looking like someone who is in need of human companionship?

Is it for finding human companionship?

-because if you lose the hardware and the sour puss you might get somewhere with that.

To everyone hating on the eye-piece: What would you suggest? A big harness around your shoulders that holds a flat panel in front of your head?

El-e-gant -(adj.): gracefully concise and simple

Looks more graceful and simple than any other design I’ve seen.

I got to go with strider_mt2k on this, the mad scientist runway model look is kind of “ghey.” He has a picture of him without the hardware and in the exact same pose. Almost kind of looks like the henchman to “Le Chiffre.”

And to what I would suggest would be a full blown Myvu, or whatever company that you would like the style of the current glasses. They have managed to hide the monitor a little bit better. At the very least, go for symmetry and put one on the other side, even if it is a dummy. That will slightly minimize the “Evil mad runway model scientist henchman with a monocle” look. Because that look is going to get you killed by Bond even if you are not a henchman. Probably because Bond is going to assume that anyone who looks like that is up to no good anyways.

@bothersaidpooh it’s true that the AAO can output a PAL signal on the VGA port but it is still RGB and not composite – unless you have a TV with SCART on it. You need to hack the driver to reduce the minimum pixel clock and use a custom X modeline and an adapter cable like this:

http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/vga2scart/

This trick can be done with most video cards available today since they are all generic enough to produce all kinds of whacky out-of-spec signals.

Also I think the guy looks more like John Malkovich.

You are all narrow minded he will RUULE THE WORLD. Seriously those are cool glasses.

What i would prefer to see is the eyepiece on the inside of the eye so as not to obstruct the lower-right section of my eyesight.
But considering the size of the eyepiece, it might not be that possible really, or allow for that much of a visibility increase.

Other than that, pretty damn good.
Especially the running times.
With a buffer and the batteries being made in to packs, you could make 2 battery packs and just swap them for roughly 6 hours on the go without powering down. (or more if you spend a lot of time out)

Meh, this works better as a blog page than my profile page. Linux.com is still a bit hard to navigate…

http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/blogger/OjM/

“What i would prefer to see is the eyepiece on the inside of the eye so as not to obstruct the lower-right section of my eyesight.
But considering the size of the eyepiece, it might not be that possible really, or allow for that much of a visibility increase.”

If you mean that the display should be inside of the glasses, that’s exactly what I have done on my blog above. It’s not optimal, but it’s usable and the display is hidden well. Should change the chord to old telephone cord to get the matrix-look. The sunglasses may look a bit odd being a bit further away from my face, but it must be a less odd than having it on front.

I could also get the big optic piece off and use a small magnifying lense and stuff, that would make it a lot smaller as the display itself is pretty flat. A see-through display would also be not that hard to do, Don Papp has done it before and I’ll try it someday too.

Definitely yes, but we have to remember that Steve Mann had a completely hidden system in 90′s.

Check Wikipedia article for wearable computer for pic.

Because a wearable gives possibility to augmented senses, like nightvision for example… Or you could see someone stealing something from a shop, and say “computer record everything that happened in the last 5 minutes”.

Could your notebook do that?

“computer record everything that happened in the last 5 minutes”

You should say: computer, record now.
Wearables still can’t take video of the past.

@bionicghost

Yeah, you just seem to lack some imagination. :)

If one wanted, real-life adblocker would also be possible to do. Possibilities are endless…