WIT, an acronym for Wearable Information Technology, is the result of an experimental design project that began in the Fall of 1992. It explored an emerging personal computing paradigm with the goal of merging computing machinery with our garments, therefore, infusing it's hard logic into the wet minutae of daily life. The full weight of this new paradigm can only be felt by experiencing an actual session with this technology. Thus, the author set out to design and construct WIT UNIT(1), the first in a series of wearable computers.
This fully functional prototype was completed back in August of 1995 and served to fulfill the author's Masters of Industrial Design thesis requirements for his studies at Pratt Institute. The project was funded with a grant from The National Endowment of the Arts awarded in March of 1994.
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Special thanx to Thad Starner and MIT Media Lab for hosting this site long before other means were available. My deepest gratitude goes to NEA for their support.