Your Body is Vital

Don't let it remain a mystery; with sousveillance you can expose what matters.

Pictured: Multiple-exposure photograph of the CNAP (Combined Neuron Action Potential) flowing along S. Mann's ulnar nerve, due to electrical excitation ranging from 137 to 400 volts, 1 msec pulses, at 2cm intervals, made visible by SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine).

About

Here at MannLab...

Professor Steve Mann is widely regarded as the Father of Wearable Computing, having created the world's first wearable augmented reality computer more than 40 years ago. [1]  Mann is the inventor of the smartwatch, digital eye glass [2], and high dynamic range imaging (HDR) [3], which is used in nearly every digital camera and smartphone today, including the iPhone.

MannLab researches, develops and commercializes the inventions of Professor Mann and his closest collaborators.  With locations in Toronto, Canada, Shenzhen, China, and Silicon Valley, California, MannLab is a global ecosystem, where entrepreneurs, professors, students, product designers, engineers, and creative visionaries of all kinds have come together to shape how humans and technology will interface for the next 40 years, and beyond.

Our Team

Steve Mann

Founder & CEO

Dan Braverman

Chief Operating Officer

Kyle Simmons

Chief Prototyping Engineer

Ryan Janzen

Lead Research Advisor

We are all Makers

Following the MIT models, at MannLab everyone engages in "jam sessions" (akin to playing jazz music) where we collaborate on ideas that motivate us, bringing about the greatest successes. Employeeing "demo-or-die", projects move through the lab quickly, receiving the full dedication of our forces each and every day to produce a new visible result.

Recent from Our Lab

01 November 1995
Steve Mann et al.

Chirplet Transform

The Chirplet Transform: Physical Considerations http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/ChirpletTransform_IEEE_TSP1995.pdf “Abstruct- We consider a multidimensional parameter space formed by inner products of...

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01 November 1998
Steve Mann et al.

Wearcomp

Humanistic Computing: “WearComp” as a New Framework and Application for Intelligent Signal Processing http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/HumanisticComputing_Mann1998_ProcIEEE.pdf “Humanistic computing is proposed...

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01 August 2000
Steve Mann

Comparametric Equations

Comparametric Equations with Practical Applications in Quantigraphic Image Processing http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/comparametric.pdf “Abstract—It is argued that, hidden within the flow...

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01 March 2018
Steve Mann et al.

Virtual Reality Games in Sensory Deprivation Tanks

Virtual Reality Games in Sensory Deprivation Tanks http://wearcam.org/gem2018/08516266.pdf “Abstract—We present a new form of game-playing that takes place...

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