The Origins of ENGwear

University of Toronto, engineering F!ROSH week 1999:
Each year, every member of the incoming class receives a hardhat to decorate and embellish - an engineering fashion statement. This year, however, a number of students will go further, transforming their hardhats into EyeTaps that allow their eyes to function as cameras. Blending in with the other hardhats, moving unnoticed in and out of F!ROSH week activities, they will form a wireless network providing first-person, unobtrusive news coverage of the week's events by instantly transmitting whatever they see to the World Wide Web for as long as their batteries last.

The next-generation hardhats will be worn by graduates and students of Professor Steve Mann's course ECE1766: Personal Cybernetics (sometimes called The School for Cyborgs).

James Fung

Will Waites

Stephen Ross

Eric Moncrieff

Steve Mann
The pictures above link to images taken and notes made by those involved.

Here is a gallery of all the F!ROSH images.

Here are some miscellaneous ENGwear-related images.
Contact: Professor Steve Mann at mann@eecg.toronto.edu