The Road To Wearable Computing

This data paper is a condensed text version of ‘The Road To Wearable Computing: Interactive Timeline’, a comprehensive assay of wearable computing at the Computer History Museum of Mountain View, California, curated by Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler of Georgia Institute of Technology in an exhibition titled ‘On You: A Story of Wearable Computing’. This data paper lists a various wearable and supportive technologies that were either prototypes, advancements or retail available products from across a range of sources based on the interactive timeline online, which also provides an option to view device types by category; ‘Power & Heat’, ‘Networking’, ‘Mobile Input’, ‘Virtual Reality’, ‘Video Viewers’, ‘Professional’, ‘Maker’ or ‘Consumer’.