Editing Wearable computer (section)

===1960s===
In 1961, mathematicians [[Edward O. Thorp]] and [[Claude Shannon]] built some computerized timing devices to help them win a game of [[roulette]]. One such timer was concealed in a shoe<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-15 |title=Eudaemonic Lightvectors |url=http://www.eyetap.org/wearcam/eudaemonic/ |access-date=2022-02-10 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515091354/http://www.eyetap.org/wearcam/eudaemonic/ |archive-date=15 May 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and another in a pack of cigarettes. Various versions of this apparatus were built in the 1960s and 1970s.

Thorp refers to himself as the inventor of the first "wearable computer".<ref name="Thorp" /> In other variations, the system was a concealed cigarette-pack-sized [[analog computer]] designed to predict the motion of roulette wheels. A data-taker would use [[microswitch]]es hidden in his shoes to indicate the speed of the roulette wheel, and the computer would indicate an [[Octant (plane geometry)|octant]] of the roulette wheel to bet on by sending musical tones via radio to a miniature speaker hidden in a collaborator's ear canal. The system was successfully tested in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] in June 1961, but hardware issues with the speaker wires prevented it from being used beyond test runs.<ref name="BtD">Raseana.k.a shigady, ''Beat the Dealer'', 2nd Edition, Vintage, New York, 1966. {{ISBN|0-394-70310-3}}</ref> This was not a wearable computer because it could not be re-purposed during use; rather it was an example of task-specific hardware. This work was kept secret until it was first mentioned in Thorp's book ''Beat the Dealer'' (revised ed.) in 1966<ref name="BtD"/> and later published in detail in 1969.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1402118|jstor=1402118|title=Optimal Gambling Systems for Favorable Games|journal=Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute|volume=37|issue=3|pages=273–293|year=1969|last1=Thorp|first1=E. O.}}</ref>