Say you're so hooked to your mouse, keyboard and computer monitor you can hardly tear yourself away from your terminal.
You don't have to. You can wear your computer.
Thad Starner, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, has been walking around with his for nearly a decade.
"Most people who stand in line at the airport are just waiting there, bored. I'm writing the next chapter of my book or reading e-mail," Starner said Tuesday at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers at the University of Washington.
Starner's gear, which costs about $4,500, includes a micro-optical monitor hooked to his glasses, a cell phone-shaped keyboard he straps to the back of one hand and a small black bag that holds a 1 1/2-pound computer.
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