Posts Tagged: Steve Mann

New York Cyborg Artist Visits Engineering Professor

When New York artist Wafaa Bilal visited Toronto recently, he got together with inventor Steve Mann to compare notes on mounting cameras on their heads. Then they jumped into Mann’s hot tub to play some music. Bilal, an Iraqi who…

Toronto Filmmaker Trying to Perfect Prosthetic Eye Camera

When he was nine years old, Rob Spence used a gun to explode a pile of cow dung at his grandfather’s farm. The recoil seriously damaged Spence’s right eye. Twenty-five years and many painful surgeries later, Spence had surgery to…

Water Flute Gives a Glimpse of Future Interfaces

A fish-shape musical instrument that spouts water jets into which users dip their fingers is being hailed as an example of a new user interface. The instrument, called a hydraulophone, involves putting your fingers on tiny water jets and producing…

Thought-Control Technology Can Make Toast

Using your brain waves to control the environment around you, like the lights in your home or even your toaster, is already a reality. One Toronto-based company has developed a system called thought-control computing, and it is exploring a range…

Toronto tech firm illuminates CN Tower from Vancouver Olympics

Chris Aimone, former student of Professor Steve Mann (ECE), is part of a three-person firm in Toronto called InteraXon. Their technology will allow visitors to the Ontario Pavilion at the Vancouver Olympics to use mental activity to illuminate the CN Tower, Niagara…
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