13. How can I have my Wearable ?

13.1 Commercial Solutions.

Some companies sells Wearables ready to use out of the Box, hereafter is a list of them.

• Genesys Technology manufactures a Wearable that uses a HMD display.
• handsfreemobile sells the Mid Riff Brain, it is mostly an LCD touchpad based solution and the unit is in a pouch fixed on the waistband.
• Teltronics sells the Mentis. It is a modular wearable.
• Via sells the VIA II PC a Wearable that is worn on the waistband.
• Xybernaut sells the Mobile Assistant IV ( MA IV )

13.2 Do it yourself.

As wearable computing is in its very early beginning you should make various experiments and share them with your peers. Doing this with an open and versatile OS such as Linux should give you a lot of fun ( after all, desktop computer is just a plain vanilla computer), because you play with both the OS and the hardware. If you are unsure of the technical decisions you are going to make, you can start with a proven design such as the

Lizzi design and then change some components. Thus you will not have to reinvent the wheel and you will avoid some pitfalls.