ZDNet Definition for: Glogger

(cyborG LOGGER) A person who streams live video or repetitive stills from a wearable camera to a Web site. Numerous types and sizes of cameras, computers and wireless systems were stitched together over the years to create wearable cameras; however, today's gloggers can use tiny Webcams and minuscule computers as well as download an application from www.glogger.mobi that lets them glog their daily life from their camera phone. Also called "lifecasting," "lifeglogging," "lifeblogging," "lifelogging" and "mobile blogging" (see moblogging), as of 2009, there were more than 30,000 gloggers worldwide. See souveillance.

Steve Mann - The First Glogger
Steve Mann was the first person to transmit his daily view of the world in real time to the Internet. In the late 1970s, he invented a radio technology and Internet protocol that enabled him to transmit from a video camera on his head to the nearest Internet node that permitted him access. The processing was done with an Apple II strapped to his back. Mann, who later became a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, was also instrumental in creating the predominant site for glogger streaming as well as developing wearable cameras at the university's EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab. For more information, visit www.glogger.mobi and www.eyetap.org. See cyborg.




Left: 1980 - Right: Late 1990s
In 1980, with an Apple II in a backpack, a video camera on his helmet and transmitting via his own radio system and Internet protocol, Steve Mann glogged wherever he was able to install his wireless base stations and gain access to the Internet. Some 20 years later, he wore an eyeglass camera connected to a computer embedded in the fabric of his undershirt, both of which he invented. In his hand is a remote control. (Images courtesy of Steve Mann, from his book "Intelligent Image Processing," John Wiley, 2001, ISBN 978-047146372.)

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