Steve Mann
Steve Mann
Steven Mannis a Canadian researcher and inventor best known for his work on computational photography, particularly wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
CountryCanada
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If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.
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He recreated an art form that nobody would tell him. He mastered it and surpassed history. And it wasn't long before he was accepted as an artist.
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There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.
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I think that small businesses have the answers in terms of knowledge of their product. I want someone who has a body of knowledge. And we have that body of knowledge.
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We have lived through two generations of customers. We need to promote the whole hobby of horticulture to young people today.
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What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.