November 20, 2009
Call the bluff
Identify the device in the image above. It’s considered the first of its kind. Also identify its inventor.
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Answer:
The worlds first wearable computer, co-invented by Edward Thorpe and Claude Shannon. The computer was designed to guess where the ball would end up when dropped on a roulette wheel.


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November 21st, 2009 at 3:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1258773784 )
Ed Thorp , and His Highness. Claude Shannon.
The wearable computer, used for favourable roulette wheel decision making.
the story behind it, in an awesome paper.
http://graphics.cs.columbia.ed.....iswc98.pdf
November 21st, 2009 at 6:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1258785236 )
Roulette Wheel prediction computer co-invented by Claude Shannon
November 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1258792647 )
First wearable computer!
Actually its a device to predict where the ball in the roulette will end up. It was invented by Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1258808428 )
first wearable computer – edward thorpe and claude shannon
November 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1258829465 )
Thorpe and Shannon’s Roulette predictor. (wearable computer)
November 21st, 2009 at 8:14 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1258834471 )
Ed Thorp’s wearable computer to predict routlettes.
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1258873020 )
The roulette prediction device built by Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon.Claim to fame: First wearable computer.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1258935485 )
the Analog computer for prediction of the roulette by shanon and thorp, apparently the first wearable/handheld computer