What kind of wearable device do you want? Assuming it will work and feel like you imagine it would

Otter@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 61 points –

It's getting cold and so I'm fumbling with my phone and other devices.

I like the idea of a large screen on my forearm, but I'm not sure how it would work. Maybe it would be cool?

I see some company tried in 2014 and probably didn't get anywhere (see Arubixs Portal), and there was that infamous Kickstarter too

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Smart glasses.

With locally processed data

*Contact Lenses

Ah yes. Can't wait to get ads injected straight into my cornea. While driving my car. Wonderful.

Ha - they wouldn’t do that! It’s not like Waze puts a full screen ad up every time you stop at a traffic light… oh, wait. Damn you capitalism!!!

Cyborg eyes.

Enjoy your macular degeneration fleshbags.

You only need one to be cyborg eye… the other one can succumb the way nature intended… to diabetes and television.

Yup. Don't care how heavy or ugly it is either. I'd probably buy the apple headset thing if it was cheaper, ran Linux, and wasn't made by Apple. Can't wait for the technology to come down in price.

I'm with you.

In fact, I made my own. It's fugly and dorky as hell, but it's everything I want and nothing I don't.

I used a VuFine LCD eyepiece and hooked a raspi Zero W to it. Input via Bluetooth keyboard. Not a lot of screen real estate, so I went full CLI and wrote my own TUI with widget support so I can have an "active" app, plus a bunch of passive data widgets.