Surfing on a Matchbox (1999)
10 months ago
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- The smallest web server, one-tenth the size of a Palm Pilot, was built by Professor Vaughan Pratt at Stanford University.
- The matchbox-sized server is part of the Wearables Laboratory's initiative to develop computers that can be incorporated into clothing.
- Future versions aim to include voice recognition software and more powerful components like a credit-card-size Pentium motherboard.
- A major challenge for wearable computers is the lack of an easy, compact data input method; solutions like a Thumbcode-recognizing glove are being explored.
- The previous smallest web server, by Phar Lap Software, was over 10 times larger and demonstrated embedded systems' connectivity to the web.