My new web page location is http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu, so this www page is out of date

orbits.html

and

Steve Mann's personal www site has moved to http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann

Please update your links to point to my new WWW pages

The links below will be broken, "file not found", because they have been moved to my University of Toronto site

Personal hobbies, research interests, and the like:

If you have a really fast Internet connection, you might want to look at a more highly graphical version of this page.

Wearable Wireless Webcam and the personal visual assistant.
- See what I'm seeing right now (or what I've last transmitted).
- See a gallery of what I've seen recently (takes a little while to load).
- Load a larger gallery if you have a fast net connection or a lot of patience (takes quite a while to load all images).
- See a picture of the apparatus (me wearing it), and an earlier version (~=1990) as hand-drawn by Adam Oranchak.
- Research papers:
  - Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled)
  - `Smart Clothing'
  - Tetherless computer-mediated reality in the real world (PostScript file available from VisMod home page, TR260)
  - Smart clothing: Turning the tables (how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive)
  - Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing (collaborative work with Thad Starner, etal)
Projective geometry
- Periodicity in perspective
- other ways of going beyond traditional digital photography.
Wearable electronic flash with some "kick":
- See some of my work, as well as works by other artists, at the Edgerton Center online gallery.
- This is how I hold and aim the world's most powerful electronic flash (40kJ), which I configured as a body-worn tetherless apparatus. (I use it for architectural "lightpainting".)
- Take a closeup look at the most powerful lamp in the world (energy per flash up to 40kJ). If you have a fast net connection, you can load a larger picture of the lamp just before ignition, and during ignition.
`Smart clothes' and Wearable computing
Light as well as a humorous look at darkness, the absence of light.
Privacy issues pertaining to light and virtual light (e.g. video, etc.)
Amateur radio My callsign is N1NLF. A fellow amateur radio operator, N4RVE, is also interested in ham radio on the move.

I am part of "VisMod", also known as the "vision and modeling group", in the Media Lab at MIT.

I live in Edgerton House which has a view of Boston, across the Charles river, a pleasant atmosphere, even in the basement (e.g. a long brightly lit corridor with a renaissance sense of perspective), and a laundry room with nice new machines, though the controversial Card Key system has recently been installed at Edgerton House, as well as other dorms across campus.

Events or places of interest in cyberspace:

Events or places of interest in physical space:

MIT swapfest: a flea market by and for ham radio operators
meetings of the ham radio club:

I also have an "official" home page, describing my work at the Media Lab and listing some of my publications.

Send comments to webcam-owner@media.mit.edu.

My Snail mail (US postal address) is also on that same page.

Blue ribbon designates Free speech (ribbon used instead of setting background color to black because this would be a Notscape specific feature).

This page written primarily for Mosaic (e.g. lean and mean) but if you like some of the ``pork'' in Netscape, you can do things like try a little try a little bit of push-pull. Then when you get tired of that you can go back to using the more ``lean and mean'' Mosaic browser. If you're still a believer in "pork", you might want to consider looking at the "NotScape" page.