Posted on 04/05/2012 3:25:14 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses.
On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.
The glasses are not yet for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public.
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(and a pair of them gasses as well)
Steve Martin’s movie ,The Jerk comes to mind
I'm in too!
lol. prophetic on at least two levels.
Do we really need to be on-line every step we take?
Nah, sometimes I walk ten feet or more before I hit reload.
It’s already too much.
Too many gadgets complicating our lives as it is.
My 18-year-old kid agrees with you. He brought his laptop over to me and showed me the Google vid about the glasses. He thought it was great.
Yeah, it’s great that Google already knows what you’re interested in reading, what you write about in your private emails to your friends, what you buy online. Now they’re going to know exactly where you go, who you talked to, what you spent money on, what you said, what you even looked at, 24-7. They ask to maintain your medical records too. They want your life. They want control. I swear to heaven, this is terrifying.
Makes me long for the early 1980s or better, the 1950s, even more than I already do.
This is not for me. I can not tell you how many sunglasses I have lost or sat on.
I used to think that the digital revolution would empower individuals.
It wasn’t long before I realized it does the opposite.
while there are many things i enjoy about the digital revolution the overuse by the next 2 generations is doing more harm than good..
technology is enslaving them and actually making them dumber. they are dependant on electronic devices for too much.
I was traveling recently and staying at a hotel across the street from a college. Thirsty for a beer, I walked across the street to one of the university bars and sat down. This was a Friday night and what I saw depressed me. The place was packed with young college students and practically each one of them was privately engrossed in their smart phones. there was almost no interaction between them!
I recalled my college bar scene from twenty years ago and I remember it being very social and lively. Of course, nobody had smart phones and even email and the World Wide Web were technologies we were only beginning to utilize in their most primitive forms.
as if texting while driving isn’t bad enough.
Conceptually, I see this as a very good idea. If it can be bluetoothed to PC’s, smartphones, tablets, etc., you could either do away with or at least not have to view a fixed monitor or a small screen. Sure it has downsides, but I like the freedom and convenience it would allow.
Next, we need to conquer those itty bitty keypads.
I figured this out as a technology in the 1990s.
I am hoping I will live to see the direct brain implant thus doing away with all input devices. I just thunk it and it happens and all is displayed directly in the brain without need for external devices.
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