Editing Wearable computer (section)

==Military use==
{{see also|Future Soldier}}
[[File:Wristband computer.png|thumb|Wristband computer]]
The wearable computer was introduced to the US Army in 1989 as a small computer that was meant to assist soldiers in battle. Since then, the concept has grown to include the Land Warrior program and proposal for future systems.<ref name="Zieniewicz 2002">{{cite journal|last=Zieniewicz|first=Matthew J. |author2=D. C. Johnson |author3=D.C. Wong |author4=J. D Flatt|title=The Evolution of Army Wearable Computers|journal=Pervasive Computing|year=2002|volume=1|issue=4 |series=4|pages=30–40|doi=10.1109/mprv.2002.1158276|s2cid=37122041 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1276059 }}</ref> The most extensive military program in the wearables arena is the [[US Army]]'s [[Land Warrior]] system,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Troops in Iraq give thumbs up to Land Warrior |author=Matthew Cox |date=23 June 2007 |work=[[Army Times]] |url=http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/army_warrior_070623p/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721194332/http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/army_warrior_070623p/ |archive-date=21 July 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=27 October 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which will eventually be merged into the [[Future Force Warrior]] system.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Army's Future Force Warrior passes major milestone|url=https://www.army.mil/article/15/armys_future_force_warrior_passes_major_milestone|access-date=2021-07-20|website=www.army.mil|date=8 September 2006 |language=en}}</ref> There are also researches for increasing the reliability of terrestrial navigation.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=B.|last2=Demczuk|first2=V.|last3=Piekarski|first3=W.|last4=Hepworth|first4=D.|last5=Gunther|first5=B.|title=Digest of Papers. Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Cat. No.98EX215) |chapter=A wearable computer system with augmented reality to support terrestrial navigation |date=October 1998|pages=168–171|doi=10.1109/ISWC.1998.729549|isbn=978-0-8186-9074-7|s2cid=7845475}}</ref>

[[F-INSAS]] is an Indian military project, designed largely with wearable computing. The goal of F-INSAS is to equip soldiers with state-of-the-art technologies that improve their combat effectiveness, including wearable computers to aid in communication, navigation, and situational awareness.