Man Claims Wearing Google Glass-Type Eyewear Led to Bizarre Attack

Can't wait for Google Glass to become available in 2014? This may temper your enthusiasm: A Canadian man wearing similar eyewear in a French McDonald's claims he was physically attacked when someone in the store tried to rip the device off his head.

Steve Mann, a Toronto resident, blogged on Monday that the incident occurred on July 1 at a McD's in Paris. After ordering two Ranch Wraps, one burger, and one mango McFlurry, the attacker "angrily grabbed my eyeglass, and tried to pull it off my head," Mann wrote. Mann notes that 'the eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools."

According to Mann's blog, the attacker was not a McDonald's emplo…
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