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TODAY'S CYBORGS GET AN EYEFUL

TODAY'S CYBORGS GET AN EYEFUL
New wearable computers and retinal scanning devices are enabling
more people to adopt a "connected" lifestyle. Thad Starner, an
assistant professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, uses a
wearable device composed of a mini-monitor mounted on his
eyeglasses and a portable computer keyboard that he needs only
one hand to operate. Another cyborg pioneer, Steve Mann of the
University of Toronto, uses a viewing device called the Eye Tap,
which allows other people to see what he sees and enter in data
that appears superimposed on his vision. Mann said his wife
helps him buy the correct groceries at the supermarket through
the device by "scribbling" on his retina. Many on the forefront
of wearable computer technology are quick to point out that
pervasive computing is much closer than most realize and that the
popularization of PDAs, cell phones, and computerized health aids
is taken for granted as progress toward real cybernetics.
(USA Today, 2 July 2001)

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