• Steve Mann -- Worlds first cyborg, attacked in a Paris McDonalds for wearing Augmented Reality glass
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[QUOTE=hexpunK;36813346]He should really have a wig or something to cover that. At least, I'd hope that thought has crossed his mind at least once.[/QUOTE] [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Wearcompevolution.jpg[/t] I don't think he wears it all the time. If he does, I think he wears a hat. [editline]17th July 2012[/editline] [img]http://www.editinternational.com/images/gallery/01-professormann_low.jpg[/img]
Maybe the store was a front for the mafia? or something?
Looks a lot less suspcious with a wig or hat on :v: Maybe some day that technology won't even need all that cabling and sensors to be visible. This attack just seems weird in general, it can't just be because they were scared of it, there has to be more to it.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;36812819]I don't understand this. What was the fuss about? What was their motive? I'm jumping to extreme conclusions here, bordering conspiracy nutjob territory, but what if the McDonald's employees were worried that his eyeglasses would capture something illegal that they were doing? The article said McDonald's employees in France also assaulted someone for taking a picture of a food menu.[/QUOTE] Might be a little far-fetched but corporate espionage? Granted, it still makes this whole business baffling but it's equally likely. [editline]17th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;36813430][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Wearcompevolution.jpg[/t] I don't think he wears it all the time. If he does, I think he wears a hat. [editline]17th July 2012[/editline] [img]http://www.editinternational.com/images/gallery/01-professormann_low.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The thing's attached to his skull. It requires specialist tools to get it off.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36813629]Might be a little far-fetched but corporate espionage? Granted, it still makes this whole business baffling but it's equally likely. [editline]17th July 2012[/editline] The thing's attached to his skull. It requires specialist tools to get it off.[/QUOTE] I thought he was referring to that neural hub thing. He doesn't wear that all the time.
muslim people dont like camera's that much, especially young adult males. if ur gonna videotape them working a shitty job they gad mad real quick. they dont care if you didnt choose to have a camera attached to your face they only care about their own ego. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBV4z2R8Bk[/media] hope the criminals will have to pay up for the repair costs and give a formal apology, bunch of cunts
[QUOTE=Zeemlapje;36813669]muslim people[/QUOTE] What ?
Some guy got attacked at my local McDonalds in London for holding hands with another guy...... It got burnt to the ground and the guy who did it got stabbed to death 3 days later... that is street justice. I hope that happens in this situation as well!
Here is a different article. [quote] [B]Exclusive: Cyborg Steve Mann Details Alleged McDonald’s Assault[/B] [img]http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mannmainlarge.jpg[/img] No shirt. No shoes. No augmented reality glasses. No service. Earlier this month, human cyborg and University of Toronto Professor Steve Mann, claims he was brutalized and kicked out of a Paris McDonald’s after employees objected to his headset and its ability to record photos and videos of his experiences. “I’m not sure why the perpetrators attacked, but ‘Perp. 1′ [Mann's name for one of his assailants] did mention about cameras not being allowed,” he told us in an exclusive email interview. Mann was unavailable for a phone call because his iPhone was also damaged in the alleged attack. Though augmented reality headsets like Google’s Project Glass have just started making headlines this year, Mann has been wearing his own home-brewed “EyeTap Digital Glass” computers every day since the early 1980s. [img]http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Steve-Mann-gear.jpg[/img] Steve Mann Through the Years The current generation EyeTap, which runs on customized WearComp OS, captures images at 120 frames per second in 1080 x 1920-pixel resolution, but according to Mann, these images aren’t stored permanently. “It merely delays rather than records, but when damaged (computer) the leftovers were recovered,” he said. “In this sense Perp 1 [the person who allegedly assaulted Mann] was the person who took all the pictures in the last hour or so, by causing the computer to be broken.” Mann, told us that, on July 1st, he, his wife and their two children were in line to purchase food at the Paris McDonald’s when an employee approached and informed them that cameras were not allowed in the establishment. After Mann presented the employee with a doctor’s note he carries with him that states he needs to wear his headgear, the employee let him through and a cashier took his order. [img]http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cashier.jpg[/img] Cashier According to Mann, after he and his family had received their food and taken a seat by the entrance, another McDonald’s employee, whom Mann refers to as Perpetrator 1, approached and angrily tried to pull the EyeTap, which is permanently attached and cannot be removed without tools, off of his head. “Perp. 1 reached his left hand out and pressed against the frame of my eyeglass, and swung his left hand around a few times pushing and pulling at it,” he told us. Mann then tried to calm Perpetrator 1 and showed him his doctor’s note, which the employee showed to two coworkers, whom Mann nicknames Perpetrators 2 and 3. After Perpetrator 2 crumpled up his doctor’s note and Perpetrator 1 tore up some other documentation he provided, Perpetrator 1 then allegedly pushed him out the door and onto the street, damaging his gear. [img]http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/perps.jpg[/img] Alleged Perpetrators “My Glass started acting a little erratic but I could still see to some degree, but with crosshatches and kind of a freeze-frame like motion as the Eye Glass stopped and started intermittently,” Mann said. The alleged assault apparently loosened a ribbon cable within the device, causing the eye piece to malfunction and flood Mann’s eye with laser light. However, the device was still functioning until Mann had an embarrassing bodily reaction upon hitting the street, which caused his circuits to short out. [B] “The actual cause of the final stoppage (which happened shortly after he pushed me out the door) is a bit embarrassing as what happened also is that I had had to really use the toilet, at the time, and it was that I’d been going toward using the toilet but got attacked, so as a result, later, it turned out that my pants became the toilet,” he said.[/B] [B]“The cargo pants I wear have large number of pockets most of the way down both legs, so my iPhone and the processing boards, motherboard of miniature PC, control board of Glass, etc., went dead shortly afterwards, and that’s when the Glass went totally dark. My iPhone and some of the other pieces still don’t work.”[/B] Mann said that, after picking himself up and dusting himself off, he sought out Police in the Champs-Elysees area, but none of the many cops he approached were interested in taking a report or investigating. “Some of the parts of me started shutting down at different times afterwards,” Mann told us in an exclusive email interview. “I’m still online now but a lot is not working.” [B]To draw attention to his plight, on July 16th Mann posted an account of the alleged assault on blogspot, causing an international uproar. The incident has so far been covered by more than three dozen major news outlets, including Tech Crunch, Forbes, Mashable and The Verge. A group on Reddit had more than 2,000 comments as of this writing. Sci-fi blog io9 even described the alleged attack as “the world’s first cybernetic hate crime.”[/B] [B]“After first trying with the Police (no luck) and then the Consulate/Embassies (no luck), and then the legal experts and human rights commissioners (no luck), some of whom suggested “the court of public opinion,” I finally brought this matter to the public’s attention, but only after exhausting all other possibilities,” he said.[/B] [B][U]A representative from McDonald’s told us that the company is still investigating the incident.[/U][/B] [B][U] “We strive to provide a welcoming and enjoyable experience for our customers when they visit our restaurants,” the company told us in a statement. “We take the claims and feedback of our customers very seriously. We are in the process of gathering information about this situation and we ask for patience until all of the facts are known.”[/U][/B] For his part, Mann said he is not seeking punitive damages, just enough money to fix his EyeTap Glass and perhaps a commitment from McDonald’s to support vision research as his glasses are also designed to eventually help people with vision and memory problems. No matter how this ends, Mann’s story raises serious questions about technology and privacy. As we carry cameras with us everywhere we go, the question of where and when we can capture our experiences looms large. Google’s upcoming Project Glass will certainly be swept up in the same type of controversy as augmented really eyewear proliferates. [img]http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Steve-mann-vs-glass.jpg[/img] Steve Mann vs. Project Glass In a paper on wearable computing, Mann describes wearable devices and recording as similar to human memory and says that public establishments like businesses should not discriminate against people whose memories are captured by computer devices. He sees a future in which everyone from memory-impaired Alzheimer’s patients to healthy adults uses wearable tech as an extended memory. “The ‘Silicon Brain’ of the Mindmesh thus asks the question ‘is remembering recording?’ As more people embrace prosthetic minds, this distinction will disappear. Businesses and other organizations have a legal obligation not to discriminate, and will therefore not be able to prevent individuals from seeing and remembering, whether by natural biological or computational means,” he writes on Interaction-Design.org.[/quote] [url]http://blog.laptopmag.com/exclusive-cyborg-steve-mann-on-alleged-mcdonalds-assault[/url]
This is why we hate the french so much, they are a bunch of douchebags
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36813629]Might be a little far-fetched but corporate espionage? Granted, it still makes this whole business baffling but it's equally likely. [/QUOTE] Corporate Espionage. At McDonalds. What the fuuuuuck are you smooookiiiiing duuuuude...
[QUOTE=Ardosos;36813358]You shouldn't wear things that obscure your face into businesses because they could think you are robbing them.[/QUOTE] True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE] And I thought my Swiss bank account was supposed to be secure.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE] They probably all had their hands on the silent alarm button. "How can I...help you sir....?"
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[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE] Right, didn't think of that.
He's wearing something I haven't seen before! GET HIM! I don't get it. Fucking retards. [QUOTE=-Xemit-;36813146][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/MannGlassEye_and_MindMesh_2427-2429proc_rotated_cropped.jpg/474px-MannGlassEye_and_MindMesh_2427-2429proc_rotated_cropped.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's very unfortunate facial hair
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE]Were you also wearing a uniform?
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36814409]Were you also wearing a uniform?[/QUOTE] He was on his way to the shooting range, why would he be wearing a uniform?
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah...no, they probably did but you were too caught up with yourself that you thought that no one was passively sprinting out of the bank, and they bank attendants all had their fingers on the silent alarm...
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;36814427]He was on his way to the shooting range, why would he be wearing a uniform?[/QUOTE] AFAIK if hes around 18-21 he would be in Swiss Army/Air Force
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36813888]True. but people in my country aren't as paranoid here(Switzerland). I once walked with an assault rifle on my back into a bank(on my way to the shooting range), and no one gave a shit.[/QUOTE] well yes but since every man in switzerland is issued one it shouldn't be a uncommon sight.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;36814427]He was on his way to the shooting range, why would he be wearing a uniform?[/QUOTE] Because in countries with conscription you'll see a lot of guys and girls walking around like that. If any of you guys have seen Bowling for Columbine the shit that goes on in the US is hilarious. The bank he goes to gives away free rifles when you open an account with them.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36814679]Because in countries with conscription you'll see a lot of guys and girls walking around like that. If any of you guys have seen Bowling for Columbine the shit that goes on in the US is hilarious. The bank he goes to gives away free rifles when you open an account with them.[/QUOTE] honestly, as long as you are carrying the rifle properly (ie in a case or sling on your back/shoulder, [B]unloaded[/B]) and non-threateningly nobody will bat an eyelash. if the police stop you they will easily let you go after showing your license and explaining that you're transporting it/going to the range.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36814679]Because in countries with conscription you'll see a lot of guys and girls walking around like that. If any of you guys have seen Bowling for Columbine the shit that goes on in the US is hilarious. The bank he goes to gives away free rifles when you open an account with them.[/QUOTE] Bowling for Columbine is one of the worst movies I've seen.
Is he actually a cyborg per sae?
Smart move assaulting someone who has a video recorder for an eye. :rolleyes:
no recording in mcdonalds otherwise people on the outside will realise their food is shit and their furniture is tacky!!!
Wow, really, nobody posted it? All right then: [video=youtube;n1GgzZe_x24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GgzZe_x24[/video]
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;36813146][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/MannGlassEye_and_MindMesh_2427-2429proc_rotated_cropped.jpg/474px-MannGlassEye_and_MindMesh_2427-2429proc_rotated_cropped.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I don't know why I find this so unsettling.
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