What a great idea - part of the Hannover Messe is TecToYou (speak: Tec2u ;-), an initiative for teens. Many companies and universities organized special events over the whole week for young people. Because the government supports Tec2u many school classes are invited.

TectoYou. a week dedicated to young people, technology and the future. From 16 to 19 April 2007 various pavilions will create an interdisciplinary platform for presentations, displays and discussion of central future-focused themes.

One part are workshops in the "Open Lab" where Wearable Computing is one of the main topics.

Ok, on the other side it is "high time" for Germany not to increase the technological gap while in Japan UMTS is everywhere and in Korea 40% of the people have an CyWorld account.. You know what I mean.

More here: HANNOVER MESSE - TecToYou.