“DeVaul has a background in wearable technologies as you can see from his personal homepage, as well as a PhD. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT,” Weintraub reports. “At MIT, he worked on new human-computer interaction techniques for wearable, mobile, and portable applications.”
Weintraub reports, “DeVaul will be working under Jonny Ive in a secret lab focused on wearable computing technology where only seven people besides Ive and CEO Steve Jobs know what he is doing.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The “secret lab” needs a new name. How about “not-so-secret lab” or, “that room where Richard wears funny hats and an A6-powered monocle?”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
The new SNAPPY decoder ring.
When I worked at BBN, one of my coworkers checked his email on his sunglasses, part of a project at MIT. In 1997.
Here comes the iMpod, surgically implanted.
New Apple hardware today?? What’s the word on the street. My wife need a new MBP.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
OK great ……. Finally catching up to “Dick Tracy”. Hay, how about an ‘In Your Ear’ iPod……. OR a ‘Heads-Up’ eye glass iPhone like, voice directed device …… OR …….. Hey, I want this guys job ………
It’s a given* that the next shuffle will be wearable.
*MDN Magic Word
After*, we’ll slide a touchscreen pad onto a forearm.
* MDN Magic Word
Mark my words . . . contact lens displays and computer device in pocket.
A fellow named Ari Benbasat from AWare has joined Apple as well. Look at LinkedIn.
Could be something like this:
Looking forward to reading more of MDN’s skinny on wearable technology.
@ occams razor,
“New Apple hardware today?? What’s the word on the street. My wife need a new MBP.”
It’s simple, if you buy a new MBP this morning, new MBPs will be announced this afternoon.
If you don’t buy a new MBP this morning, no new MBPs will be announced this afternoon.
It’s all up to you.
@Dirty Pierre le Punk
Maybe. I think there are more practical options for the Secret Lab, such as:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8471362.stm
I knew that “iPod” would eventually morph into a “wearable” computing platform. The very first application is already here; the Nike+iPod device, where a sensing device goes into your running shoe, and your iPod (or iPhone) monitors and keeps track. The next application may be medically related; a sensing device for heart rate, oxygen level, blood pressure, etc., with the iPod (or iPhone) providing continuous monitoring and recording.
From such initial specific functions (accessories and software that enhance an iPod or iPhone) will come a more general “wearable computing” platform. And Apple will once again benefit from having tens of millions of recent iPods and iPhones already in use worldwide, along with the iTunes App Store.
Wonderful, who will be able to resist such a great idea.