Wearable Tech

This portion of the textbook intrigue me, especially on page 126 that describes Steve Mann's WearComp.  Mann created several technologies, head gear devices that the user can wear that records the field of view and streams it live on the internet.  This device would be great for vlogging but what intrigue me was that "These devices raise questions about art, cyborgs, and surveillance in an era when augmented and virtual realities are increasingly being incorporated into the understanding of perception."  This quote reminded me of another artist who develop a wearable technology that records an abstract perception.

Takehito Etani created a device called "The Third Eye" that is mounted on the user's head that allows himself to view himself in "third person", much like how the protagonist is viewed in games like Grand Theft Auto and Batman: Arkham Asylum.  It's a very unique experience and experiment.  There are videos of Takehito wearing the device out in the city and he receives peculiar looks and mockery, even sometimes fear and anger.  That is where the reactions of these wearable devices intrigue me.  Like the book says, it raises questions about art, cyborgs and surveillance and in this video, people are not yet ready to accept these "third eyes" or "second skins".