eWEEK editor Carmen Nobel recently attended a wearable-computer trade conference, where she ran across keynote speaker Steve Mann. Mann's personal wearable computer runs “WOS” (WearComp Operating System), which is based on Linux. Nobel writes . . .

“At a wearable-computer trade conference last month, a woman asked keynote speaker Steve Mann if she could call him at his office the following week.”

“Mann adjusted his glasses and pointed to the red spot of light that beams into his right eye 16 hours a day. 'This is my office,' he said. 'You can get in touch with me here.'”

“A professor at the University of Toronto who has been wearing a computer on his head for almost 20 years, Mann is certainly an extreme presence in the field of wearable computing. (He grew his hair long in the back 'to cover the wires.')”

“But that field, once considered the realm of geeks and vertical markets, is gaining more acceptance in corporate America as demand rises for increasingly portable, wireless solutions.”

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