Phenomenal Augmented Reality: Advancing technology for the future of humanity

Steve Mann...brought with him an idea...and when he arrived here, a lot of people sort of said "wow this is very interesting...." I think it's probably one of the best examples we have of where somebody brought with them an extraordinarily interesting seed and then...it grew, and there are many people now, so-called cyborgs in the Media Lab and people working on wearable computers all over the place. -Nicholas Negroponte, founder, director, and chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab