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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Advocacy</A> </H2>
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<P>Some people may want to know why you want to build a wearable or you may have
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to sell your idea to the people who are responsible for the purchase.
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Here are some ideas you may use.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Why ?</A>
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<P>Because, you want to experiment by yourself, because you think that
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Human Computer Interaction is not a matter of designing the n-th
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windowmanager, because you feel that enhanced reality is the cutting
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edge of your evolution.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 The Wearable concept is not a revolution, it is just an evolution.</A>
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<P>Some people are afraid of revolutionary or so called products, thus
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the good news is that the wearable may look like a revolutionary
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concept but it is actually just an evolution of the computing hardware.
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Let me explain that : At first there was the Mainframe, then came the
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desktop computer enabling people to work in their office, latter the
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PC enabled these people to work at home too, as time passed the
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portable PC enabled people to work in a Hotel room, or everywhere they
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could find a power plug ( yes an Osborne or an IBM's convertible were
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definitively not laptop computers ), at the same time some pocket
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computers appeared on the market : Sharp PC1500, Canon X07, Casio
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PB100 then the first one weighted less and less, the second one
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disappeared but the LCD screen was, with other things their legacy
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allowing the laptop to emerge, as the laptop went mainstream,
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its size went smaller allowing people to work in the train, at the
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library ..., then palmtop PC's such as the HP95LX and PDA's appeared,
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( at this time the most successful is
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the PalmPilot family and its clones ) allowing people to work on the
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move, so the wearable is just the next step in this move towards
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miniaturization.
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( If you want to learn more about Laptops and Linux you should read
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the Laptop-HOWTO, the latest version can be found at Werner's Heuser
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<A HREF="http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html"> Homepage </A> )
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 The Wearable may give its user an edge.</A>
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In today's competitive world it is very important to get an edge over
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the other company, thus for example in a plane repair company the
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engineers who are using wearables do not waste time in asking for
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blueprints but instead have the blueprint and the technical data at
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will while performing their job, thus they will be able to repair the
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planes faster. You may choose an example in your job.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.4">3.4 The Wearable concept: a stealth menace.</A>
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</H2>
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<P>When they made their first appearance on the market, some products or technologies
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were, to say the least, less than perfect. This is a stealth menace,
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if you read Clayton Christensen's book "The innovator's dilemma: when
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new technologies cause great firms to fail" or Andy's Grove "Only the
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paranoid survives" you will see that some corporations that relies on
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a product and that have a king of the hill may fall down because they
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overlooked a new product/technology that was clumsy at its beginning
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and was at first in a market niche, then the contender took over the market.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.5">3.5 Wearable computing: an emerging industry.</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The people who decide to fund your project are not always very found about technical
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details, thus you will have to use other arguments, otherwise your pet
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project will be sent to /dev/null.
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If one reads again chapter 2 of AP Sloan's book: "My years with
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General Motors" it is obvious that the Wearable industry is
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going into the same changes as did the automobile industry in the US
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at the turn of the century : it turned from a Hobby with some small
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manufacturers to a mass market Industry. It took nearly 30 years to
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the automobile industry to change, but the wearable industry should
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have done this changes in less than 5 years, so if they don't invest
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on this product others will do.
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