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6 unusual facts about Steve Mann


Exocortex

In 1981 Steve Mann designed and built the first general purpose wearable computer.

Ivan Ulz

Although he did not perform on the album, legendary blues guitarist Steve Mann co-wrote two of the tracks on Ice Cream Man: "Beginning to Find My Way" and "Circles Under Squares."

Natural user interface

In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Steve Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI).

Steve Mann

Mann has also been described as "the world's first cyborg" in Canadian popular press such as NOW, The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Life but has himself rejected the term "cyborg" as being too vague.

Sensory Singularity, together with Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil, Mann proposed the theory of the "Sensularity" Sensory Singularity.

Welding helmet

In the 1970s and 1980s, Steve Mann introduced the Generation-1 and Generation-2 "Digital Eye Glass", initially as a vision aid to help people see better.



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