Apple hires ‘Senior Prototype Engineer’ for work on wearable computing – Computerworld Blogs
By Daniel Miessler on March 18th, 2010: Tagged as Apple | Technology
Richard DeVaul’s Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple, Inc. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company is looking far ahead into the future of mobile computing.
DeVaul has a background in wearable technologies as you can see from his personal homepage, as well as a PhD. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT. At MIT, he worked on new human-computer interaction techniques for wearable, mobile, and portable applications.
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Forget the iPad. The wearable stuff is where it’s at. This is major news; it means Apple is looking at the “real” future of computing.