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Also, there is J. Doyne Farmer [1], who was part of a group that used computers in their shoes, early 1980s, to "game" roulette tables in Los Vegas. Story is told in Thomas Bass's interesting book, "The Eudaemonic Pie". [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

The full story of the invention of the first wearable computer is told in Ed Thorp's memoir https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SEFEYCI/

Highly recommended!

pretty sure you mean Ed Thorpe, though Thorpe did eventually collaborate with Shannon.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf

According to Thorp himself they were collaborators on the roulette scheme.

“The first wearable computer was conceived in 1955 by the author to predict roulette, culminating in a joint effort at M.I.T. with Claude Shannon in 1960-61. The final operating version was tested in Shannon’s basement home lab in June of 1961. […] The Shannons and Thorps tested the computer in Las Vegas in the summer of 1961.”

It was just an idea before they jointly developed it.