{"430401":{"#nid":"430401","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thad Starner Examines the History and Future of Wearable Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGoogle Glass, Fitbits, and the Apple Watch are just the latest products in a long evolution of wearable technology. One of the earliest examples was developed in 1955: a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cs.virginia.edu\/~evans\/thorp.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecomputer the size of a deck of cards\u003C\/a\u003E, wedged in a shoe, to help gamblers up the odds on roulette in Vegas. Then, in the early 1990s, Georgia Tech computing professor Thad Starner started wearing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/exhibition\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehis homebrew computing device\u003C\/a\u003E: safety goggles with a personal display glued to them, attached to a small handheld controller and a wireless modem. He later went on to work on Google\u0027s Project Glass.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-08-03 10:49:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"John Lewis Student Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segment\/07\/31\/2015\/wearable-technology-goes-way-back.html","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"416531":{"id":"416531","type":"image","title":"Thad Starner","body":null,"created":"1449254258","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:38","changed":"1475895155","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:35","alt":"Thad Starner","file":{"fid":"202549","name":"thad_starner_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thad_starner_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thad_starner_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":120584,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thad_starner_2_0.jpg?itok=CYln5AeS"}}},"media_ids":["416531"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"82341","name":"Google Glass"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1944","name":"Thad Starner"},{"id":"115211","name":"wearable tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}