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Steve Mann
Personal blog · eyetap.blogspot.comhardwareculture
Steve Mann's personal blog at eyetap.blogspot.com covers hardware and culture. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Steve Mann physicaly assaulted by McDonald's staff for wearing Digital Eye Glass”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Steve Mann's blog as a source on his experience wearing computerized eyewear for 35 years, including the McDonald's assault and the sousveillance scenario he has written about.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Steve Mann physicaly assaulted by McDonald's staff for wearing Digital Eye Glass4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-17
What Hacker News says?
pg, I have discovered in my many years that the truth is often simpler than we expect. Your theory is interesting, but I have http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdon... . Thank you for pointing the way.
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on “Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass”Submitted Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services as a story · 76 points
HN discussion>The impact and fall injured my leg and also broke my wearable computing system, which normally overwrites its memory buffers and doesn’t permanently record images. But as a result of the damage, it retained pictures of the car’s license plate and driver, who was later identified and arrested thanks to this record of the incident. This image retention also happened when he was attacked at a McDonald's in Paris last…
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on “What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear”Submitted Steve Mann physicaly assaulted by McDonald's staff for wearing Digital Eye Glass as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSo if you're going to go through the trouble and expense of getting prescription lenses mounted onto this thing, then maybe it's also worth your while to get a second pair? You know, to avoid situations like this? We've seen people get into trouble with stuff like this before [0]. This is a new, socially unproven device meant for developers. As an early adopter, you should expect to run into occasional resistance un…
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on “AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user”This guy qualifies for gargoyle in my book. http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdon...
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on “Google Glass - If I Had Glass”I can’t find anything recent but it’s a topic he’s thought a lot about over the years: http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-sousveillance-scenari...
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on “What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear”