Engadget’s got a nifty story this week about what was probably the first wearable computer, built by MIT professors Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon (yes, that Claude Shannon) to beat roulette tables. Given that it was 1961 and electronics weren’t exactly miniaturized yet, it didn’t work very well, but still…
Thorp went on to do minor stuff like invent card counting at blackjack and figure out the algorithms that made hedge funds possible.