Google-style glasses led to attack in McDonald's, professor says

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I know those Google glasses make everyone but Sergey Brin look quite odd.

But could they look so odd as to cause someone to rip them off your head?

This question is reverberating around the minds of furious futurists after Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto, was allegedly assaulted in a Paris McDonald's -- by people who allegedly work for McDonald's.

I know that working at McDonald's is extremely stressful. However, Mann's tale, which he committed to his blog, tells of a situation that has caused some indigestion.

Mann says he was wearing his Eye Tap Digital Eye Glass. This has conceptual similarities to Google's Glasses and is similarly novel in appearance.

Mann says that, while in a McDonald's on the Champs-Elysees with his wife and children, someone who claimed to be a McDonald's employee asked him about the Digital Eye Glass he was wearing.

A glimpse of how Mann presented his case on his blog.

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This employee was allegedly satisfied when Mann showed him documentation about the contraption. Although, frankly, what business was it of his anyway? If ... [Read more]