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A Publication Featuring The Information Services Technology of Maine State Government

Volume VI, Issue 3	March 2003

Are the Jetsons Here?

By Mary N. Cloutier

Image Source: "The Jetson's Unofficial Home" www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo

"… Instead of hearing your cell phone ring, a tiny light blinks on your ring. The phone number of the person calling is displayed on the watch, and you answer by pressing a button on your watch. Next, you hear the call through your earring, which has a tiny embedded speaker. You then speak to the necklace, which has a tiny microphone inside and acts as a mouthpiece."¹

IBM and other companies are continually developing new products incorporating technology into our lives. Responding to our October 2001 survey, several readers discussed routinely "wearing" cell phones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and diabetes monitoring equipment.² I’m curious.

What other technologies do you wear?
What other technologies would you like to wear?
How do you feel about wearing technology? Would you purchase a "phone" that is worn like Jane Jetson’s jewelry? (For fun, check out sketches by French fashion design students which illustrate how they think the "wearables" of the future will look http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/lizzy/out-in-the-world/creapole/creapole-sketches.html.)

Please respond to the above questions via e-mail, to Editorial Board member, Janey Barton (Janey.Barton@Maine.gov), and we will report on responses in an upcoming issue.

[1]A jewelry cell phone for wired women blurs the line between technology and fashion. Tom Spring, PCWorld.com, http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article.asp?aid=33322

[2] http://www.maine.gov/newsletter/nov2001/technology_is_great.htm

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