Self-Described 'Cyborg' Reveals Promise and Dangers of Wearable Computers

Engineering professor has been wired for 20 years

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Toronto

If you saw the world through Steve Mann's eyes -- actually, through the glasses attached to his wearable computer -- you'd always have a computer display floating in your field of vision. As you walked across campus, you could simultaneously surf the Web...

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