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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We get a lot of calls about why (a certain) film isn't playing. For the most part it's up to us, but there's a lot of exception to that. People don't understand that a lot of films we think would be successful in Brainerd, but it's not in the film distributors' marketing plan.
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Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.
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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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We want to try to manage or increase our revenue and reduce our expenditures as much as we can. We've been very good at that over the last several years.
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The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.
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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.
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We're limited to that general area (Five Mile and Beck) because of the needs of the water system, ... This being a state-owned site, with an already existing utility easement right on the eastern border where we're proposing the tank, this made more sense.
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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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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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My philosophy is to support local businesses, to try and keep my money as close to the community as possible. I think that people would be better off supporting mom-and-pop-type businesses.
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I'm completely against diminishing senior transportation in any way, or increasing the cost. We worked hard to increase the routes and added a second bus ... It's a great benefit for our seniors and I'm completely opposed to this.
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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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