So Steve Mann went ahead and got himself into an odd situation. Again. Back in 2002, airport security broke some of his equipment causing over $50,000 of damage. What equipment, you might ask? His wearable computer system. Yes, that’s right. Designed to augment his memory & keeping a check on his life-sustaining signs, while at the same time enhancing his vision, he wears electronic sensors & a computer wherever he goes. And back in 2002, while on the way to Toronto via St. John’s International Airport in Newfoundland, he went through a three-day ordeal where he was searched & stripped of his contraptions by security personnel. By the way, Steve Mann is the pioneer of wearable computing and a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto..



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