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So what solutions shall we try?
We'd like to develop a wearable setup which is as efficient, cheap, light and small as possible with commercially available products so it can be easily cloned and replicated. We want it to be as simple as possible but as complete too while being easy to maintain over time. The design should really be about open standards, free softwares and general purpose computers with enough extra room (CPU, RAM, disks) for easy extensions.

Another important goal is to put as much control in the hand of the user. We realized that most needs for this project exist at least partially in some form or another and we think that with some glue with could try and make them all fit together for an interesting result. It would be impossible for us to reinvent the wheel and therefore a solid base of well known free software should be the basis for most of our requirements.

Where knowledge lives is as important as our ability to access it. It is as much a feedback loop as it is a given piece of information and so it happens between people. The less 3rd party acknowledgment we need, the better we can cooperate. Imagine having to ask a server to be able to talk to a friend in a bar: sounds stupid? Well, many protocols work like this either passively or actively. The more complex they get, the more control is owned by the operators. And the fewer the operators, the less benevolent they get, but that we already knew...

I woke up today in a pile of boxes, I couldn't remember last night. My first and now only reflex was to login. "But to do what?", i asked myself. "Oh yes, what i did last night", i thought. And then looking at my activity log, you know to see how efficient i am, i realized that i was unpacking new hardware and plugin it into what was left of space in my home, something I've been doing for most of my life. These cool new things would give me more times i realized. They would allow me to concentrate more on what i really wished to do, liberating me from the tiresome and boring repetitive tasks my predecessors were forced to do. I enjoyed this idea, i cherished it even more everyday.