[Wear-Hard] Android OS as a wearable OS

[Steve Barr]

Some more interesting information:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/04blind.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
'To show their progress, Mr. Raman pulled his T-Mobile G1, a touch-screen
phone with Google's Android software, from a pocket of his jeans. He and Mr.
Chen have already outfitted it with software that speaks much like a screen
reader on a PC. Now they are working on ways to allow blind people, or
anyone who is not looking at the screen, to enter text, numbers and
commands.

'That development would complement voice-recognition systems, which are not
always reliable and don't work well in noisy environments.

'Since he cannot precisely hit a button on a touch screen, Mr. Raman created
a dialer that works based on relative positions. It interprets any place
where he first touches the screen as a 5, the center of a regular telephone
dial pad. To dial any other number, he simply slides his finger in its
direction - up and to the left for 1, down and to the right for 9, and so
on. If he makes a mistake, he can erase a digit simply by shaking the phone,
which can detect motion. '

Some discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/17b5996caad2aec4#