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Oct 4, 2023 · Mann invented digital eyeglasses in 1984, decades before Google Glass came out in 2013, and a wristwatch videophone in 1998, 16 years ahead of the Apple Watch. Among techies, he is perhaps best known for pioneering high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging, which enables many cameras today—including iPhone cameras—to produce better pictures ...
SixthSense. Pranav Mistry wearing a similar device in 2012, which he and Maes and Chang named "WUW", for Wear yoUr World. [2] SixthSense is a gesture-based wearable computer system developed at MIT Media Lab by Steve Mann in 1994 and 1997 (headworn gestural interface), and 1998 (neckworn version), and further developed by Pranav Mistry (also at ...
Aug 13, 2022 · The forerunner of today’s smartwatch hit the market in 1927. If you define a smartwatch more strictly, Hewlett-Packard introduced it in 1977. An independent developer created the Linux smartwatch in 1998. Microsoft followed up with the SPOT in 2003, building on HP’s research and partnering with that company and three other watchmakers.
Steve Mann is widely regarded as “The Father of Wearable Computing” [IEEE ISSCC 2000]. His work as an artist, scientist, designer, and inventor made Toronto the world's epicentre of wearable technologies back in the 1980s. In 1992 Mann took this invention from Toronto to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding the MIT Media Lab's ...
Feb 27, 2017 · Steve Mann (artist, deigner, and inventor) takes us through his work with augmented reality (AR) technologies. This includes the first wearable augmented rea...
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Steve Mann, inventor of the hydraulophone, created the Hydraulikos Water Centre in 2011, bringing together Waterfront Toronto, University of Toronto, and others, to map out a strategy for Toronto as the world’s epicenter of water and smart cities. Mann is researching fluid flow, underwater acoustics, underwater sensing, ultrasound, and ...
Feb 1, 2008 · Steve Mann is an inventor, artist,musician, professor, scientist, engineer and the creator of the hydraulophone, a combination waterfeature/musical instrument that uses water to generate sound. He currently teaches in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and has written 139 research publications, two ...
