Posts Tagged: Steve Mann
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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