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glinaccess: making GNU Linux accessible to the visually impaired (persons with low vision)
Click
here to locate the first book at BARNES&NOBLE
This book teaches the fundamentals of wearable computing and
mediated reality, the EyeTap principle, the mathematical theory,
as well as the practical details of how to design and build these
systems.
Click
here to locate the second book at chapters.com
This book presents,
to the layperson, wearable, mobile, wireless computing and communication,
and personal experiences of inventing, designing, building, and
wearing computers for the past 20 years, as well as how these inventions
affect society as a whole.
The book is usally found in the cultural studies section of the bookstore:
Here it was found on the third floor of Chapters bookstore,
on Bloor Street, in Toronto. (Fullsize pictures taken from within
Chapters bookstore can be found here.)
``They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.''Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
It is also designed for easy access to the visually challenged, and to be easy to read on a wearable computer or EyeTap device, so if you find large font sizes offensive, then tough.
This site contains no frames, animations, or other viruses, and you will not require any proprietary plug-ins or proprietary or specific browser versions to access the material presented here. You can set your browser width to whatever you like, because I have made no assumptions whatsoever about what screen size you must purchase in order to view this site. This site will view quite nicely, for example, on a standard size 640x480 VGA display or a high brightness NTSC TV picture tube suitable for use by the visually impaired.
If you want a more organized and more desktop computer friendly site, see http://eyetap.org and http://about.eyetap.org
FILM TITLE: Cyberman
Year: 2001
Time: 87 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
``about... the world's first wearable computer...''
``It's a visually intricate look into the head of the world's first cyborg: inventor, performance artist, privacy advocate... a "Roger and Me" for the William Gibson generation.''
(Some of the University of
Toronto ECE1766 Photoborgs getting ready to head out on
a shooting assignment.)
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I am a faculty member at University of Toronto; you may want to visit my official faculty WWW page at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann
Contact info: Prof. Steve Mann, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4 mann@eecg.toronto.edu.
© We're supposed to have a Copyright notice in our Web pages. That circle-C is ASCII 251 in case you were wondering. My Snail mail (Canada Post) is also on that same page.
![[Free Speech Ribbon]](computing/rib_trn.gif)
Blue ribbon designates
Free speech
(ribbon used instead of
setting background color to black
because this would be a Notscape specific feature).
glynx (graphical lynx) based on konqueror
The DEC Alpha has held the record as the world's fastest microprocessor since 1992. This makes it a good computer upon which to run GNUX (GNU+Linux) for a WearComp base station or Interenet gateway.
Don't let Software Barons force-feed you anything that isn't COSHER!
Always ask for ADVANCE payment if you're giving an expense-paid invited lecture, otherwise you're extending what amounts to a high-risk interest free loan. ESR got this one right!
