This month Steve Mann, a computer engineering professor at the University of Toronto, was attacked for wearing an augmented vision device he’d developed called an EyeTap. Like Google’s Project ...

It's also street-ready today. While on vacation with his family, the Ontario-based "father of wearable computing" was sporting his EyeTap as he walked down the aforementioned French avenue ...

Earlier this week Dr. Steve Mann claimed he was assaulted in a Paris McDonald’s because he refused to remove his Eyetap, an augmented reality headset. Yesterday McDonald’s denied the alleged ...

Though augmented reality headsets like Google’s Project Glass have just started making headlines this year, Mann has been wearing his own home-brewed "EyeTap Digital Glass" computers every day ...

Like Google's Glass augmented reality glasses, the experimental EyeTap both displays information in Mann's field of view and functions as a camera. Unlike Google Glass, however, this device was ...

By the late 1990s, his wearable device evolved into the EyeTap Digital Eye Glass, an eyepiece equipped with a camera that can help people see better. And according to Mann's newest post on his ...

Since then, Mann has slimmed his "eyetap" apparatus down to a more manageable size and has purchased a former Toronto nightclub to use as a home, a design laboratory and a sort of tech-art gallery.

Steve Mann, described as “the world’s first cyborg,” is the inventor of the EyeTap. The device enhances his vision and transmits information directly to his retina. Writing on his blog this ...

who tried to remove his EyeTap digital eyeglass, even though, as he noted, it was “permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools.” Mann’s permanent attachment to ...

The photo comes directly from Mann’s "EyeTap Glass" headset -- a home-brewed computer he has worn every day since the early 1980s that captures images at 120 frames per second . He was wearing ...

Professor Mann actually developed HDR (high dynamic range) photography several decades ago, and has been making heavy use of it in his own Eyetap wearable computer. There, three simultaneously ...

To achieve this, the team's EyeTap helmet uses a pair of cameras take multiple exposures of the same view and combine them in real time, in such a way that no part is too dark and no part is too ...