| While working at
Charmed
Technology, I was extensively involved in the development of demonstration
applications, business proposals, and initial sales of the CharmIT
wearable computing kit. This kit was based on Prof.
Thad Starner's "Lizzy" wearable which he developed as a MIT Media
Lab
graduate student.
Starting in late
1999, Greg
Priest-Dorman revised the "Lizzy" kit with upgraded components and
a new case. These revisions made the design attractive to
wearable
computing hobbyists and researchers. The kit became known as the
"CharmIT". Georgia Tech researcher Dan
Ashbrook built many of the first CharmIT's sold in December-March
2001.
Our effort to
develop and
market the CharmIT kit was documented and published in Harvard
Business
School Case 502-012: Moon, Youngme E. "Charmed Technology."
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