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http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/lizzy/index.html
The Lizzy was designed by Thad Starner and Doug Platt at the MIT Media
Lab back in 1992/3
Lizzy Overview
The Lizzy is a PC/104 based wearable computer designed to be a robust general
purpose wearable computing system, with enough horse power to be a useful tool,
while having low enough power consumption to run for 10 hours. The Lizzy was
originally created to provide a platform which could be used for
general-purpose wearable computing applications.
Lizzy Hardware Specifications
- 486/100MHz to 586/150MHz Ampro PC/104 core
- 720 x 280 monochrome Private Eye display
- or Micro Optical QVGA greyscale glasses display (pictured)
- or Liquid Image M1 display QVGA greyscale
- Twiddler one-handed keyboard
- Sony NP-F730 or NP-F950 batteries (up to ~20 hours battery life)
- Highly reconfigurable
History of the Lizzy Name
Lizzy comes from a talk David Ross
(Atlanta Veteran's Administration R&D) gave at the Boeing workshop about how
the Model T Ford was nicknamed the "Tin Lizzy." Everyone adapted it to whatever
task needed to be done: winching wagons, pumping water, taking the family to
church, etc. "It is my hope that these instructions will enable folks to make
wearables that do tasks we never imagined."
From: Lizzy Homepage
Lizzy Legacy
The Lizzy served as a playground for new wearable computing applications.
Specifically it provided the ability to investigate and test context aware
application agents.
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