would you wear those google-internet-cyborg glasses?

YES

log cabin

from the teaser video it looks like a good way to get run over by a car

log cabin

nooooooo

I have seen enough episodes of nu-Doctor Who to know some villain is going to make a hivemind army out of us as soon as they're adopted en masse.

from the teaser video it looks like a good way to get run over by a car

haha yeah I thought the same thing, manhattan would be a really bad place to wear these

I voted for the 2nd option

not adopting vaguely posthuman tech until we get all the sex/drugs stuff Iain M. Banks promised along with it

Before this becomes mainstream and popular we're gonna have a few years of rich yuppies yelling into extra-large glasses, huh?

"NO MEET ME AT THE BOOKSTORE SHIT I FORGOT TO TURN THERE I GOTTA GO"

i'm guessing these things track eye motion to trigger events, which kind of enhances the "crazy person or bluetooth user?" quandry with an exciting new dimension

100% yes

hold on i gotta check my email
*eyes roll back in head*

worse than wearing a bluetooth.

I am a tech nerd and I think these are the worst idea

it's like some tech ppl get so enamored with technology that they kind of forget about basic survival

was really hoping that video would end with the guy jumping off that roof

http://www.atlantainjurylawyer-blog.com/Homer%20Simpson%20Distracted%20Driving%20Blog%20Photo.jpg

"did you just check out that girl in the red miniskirt?? wtf"
"no, i swear, i was, uh... reading wikipedia...?"

I'd be so flipping excited to have something like this. Really, I already use my phone/iPad about 6 hours a day and constantly while I'm commuting, so not having to pull it out of my pocket/bag would be fantastic. I expect this will become common in maybe 5 years? Probably sooner.

i love the hopeful assumption that we'll all be sharing stuff to our google+ circles

google has become like that nerdy kid who makes up his own slang and uses it really ostentatiously hoping it'll catch on

yeah I should have included "I will wait til apple comes out w/ a pair"

My only beef would be I'm sure it's connecting via cellular, which would drive me mad because I already spend 3 of those 6 phone hours a day yelling at AT&T for having a shitty data connection.

pretty sure it's wired

I'll plug the other end into my bioport.

jacks in to the base of the skull at the occipital lobe iirc

xp ha

no i mean the wire plugs into your computer, it's just really long

was really hoping that video would end with the guy jumping off that roof

hahaha I thought the same thing. "can I show you something really cool?" *shares view* "AAAIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

IMO the coolest function of these is being able to take a picture of something you're looking at

you can already do that!

you could do that 100 years ago!

anyway I'll wait for the wireless contact lens version that's controlled by my thoughts. talking out loud to your eyeglasses pffffffffft

the coolest thing would be watching movies when someone boring is talking to you

you could do that 100 years ago!

eh not by just blinking or whatever

wonder if people will be able to see what's on your screen from the other side

finally, a discreet way to view pornography on public transportation

Can these futuristic spectacles be adapted for use with my future hearing aids?

First thing I'd do is probably load up skype w a friend who's also wearing them and experiment with the resulting feedback and hopefully mind blowing digital video noise.

you could do that 100 years ago!

eh not by just blinking or whatever

au contraire, it was just prohibitively expensive

http://www.oocities.org/steph_private_collection/VCD/IMAGES/sixmilliondollarman.jpg

touche

not sure if my dislike was more from the glasses or the ukelele dweeb wearing them. anyway, i quite literally thought "i'm gonna have to move to a cabin in the woods at some point, aren't i" before even reading the options itt, so there's my vote.

I'll be in my log cabin

I like tech/gadgets etc but we are living in 2012 and I don't have a goddamn jetpack yet. I don't want a pair of glasses to watch porn and lolcats, tyvm

A few years ago this would be "would you ever really watch a movie on your phone?" or something like that.

idk, having heads-up-display computer vision on your face is kind of a big leap from watching video on a portable device.

look at how far we've come...

I remember how amazing it was to have VHS tapes to record things on!!!

and you're like blahblah video on a portable device when there are elephants starving in arctica

the step between 'basically never being offline' and 'really, actually, never being offline' might just be another step but it does seem different

They would make arguments IRL more like arguments online, in that you could instantly Google whatever it is the discussion's about and appear much smarter than you really are.

look at how far we've come...

― og (admrl), Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:09 PM (3 minutes ago)

Pro tip: take them off during sex.

Our version of "being offline" when I was growing up was when you were in the middle of moving the rotary phone from the coal cellar to the icebox!!!

a "portable device" weighed about 150lbs in those days

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Education/Pix/pictures/2009/9/25/1253881780376/The-Monty-Python-team-try-001.jpg

They would make arguments IRL more like arguments online, in that you could instantly Google whatever it is the discussion's about and appear much smarter than you really are.

haha I already do this :/

it helps that I am always right tho, I wouldn't recommend it for other people

But with the Google glasses you could do it discretely!

Too many goddamn millennials on ILX these days stinking the place out

I used to own a Compaq Portable, and although it didn't weigh 150lbs it certainly felt like it sometimes.

wait I misread that I don't use google to learn more in arguments I just use it to show other people why they are wrong

this technology will surely introduce a new breed of internet celebrity / amateur porn star

imagine, if you have shapely feet you could just look at them all day and be paid for it

http://lemonsblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/terminator_vision_02.jpg

WASTE OF AMMO

nice

shit I can't believe I am really posting a simpsons image on a message board but it's too apt
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loh0bjOB2W1qztjn5o1_400.png

its ok you already got compared to monty python

o yeah

This is going to make bootlegging movies infinitely easier.

Not that I ever do such a thing.

Yeah, actually also from a documentary filmmaker's point of view these seem like a gift.

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s5/5x06/thegame015.jpg

this would actually be really useful for those moments when I think "wow, what I am looking at is so beautiful, if only I could film it exactly as I see it so that others could experience it to." Then I could play it back later and realize "oh, I was just high."

http://scifiblock.com/images/caprica/1-1-daniel-holoband.jpg

Yeah, actually also from a documentary filmmaker's point of view these seem like a gift.

― og (admrl), Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if this means all docs are gonna be shot POV-style that's gonna suck imo

No, I would stand on a tripod. Really still

and ride cranes and dollies, etc.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/playback-strange-days.jpg

http://www.alphanerd.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/brainstorm.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2011/04/lennysquid.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/GeordiLaForge.jpg/250px-GeordiLaForge.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
"The goggles, they do nothing!*"
(*except turn you into a hipster tossbag)

YEEEEEEEES
sign me up for brain implants

this seems terrible and inevitable

when I get brain implants I'm changin my name to Case fyi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ak4N36CMo

should poll which Google X project we hope they perfect next

- driverless car
- space elevator
- I don't know what else they're working on

a TV that watches YOU

i don't know how to participate in this thread without being debbie downer

will happily run over anyone wearing these

Since they'd probably be surfing while they were walking, and thus oblivious to their surroundings, you could probably get away with telling the police that they were jaywalking.

jerkwalking

Or maybe say that you thought they were a Borg drone?
http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content05/cellborg-hgh.jpg

YES

If I had a $1 for every time I said, "I wish we'd get on with HUD technology already" I could probably afford these things on their first release. I would like them to be integrated with my regular glasses, though, to avoid looking like a complete and utter tool.

Verner Vinge basically predicted the future in Rainbow's End, imo.

So glad someone reffed TNG ep "The Game"

why does everybody have to be log cabin or YES...I want more "this really bothers me, but I am gonna buy them"

why would you want to buy something that bothers you

"the food here is terrible, and in such small portions" etc

because if I didn't own a pair people would think I was some lame old dude, for one

We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.

lol its glasses, it is in the way, fn nerds man

this would actually be really useful for those moments when I think "wow, what I am looking at is so beautiful, if only I could film it exactly as I see it so that others could experience it to." Then I could play it back later and realize "oh, I was just high."

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha otm

i need banaka's opinion on this

eventually everyone will film their most beautiful moments and put them on youtube and the best ones will become popular so we can collectively experience the most beautiful moments in the world

We are already living that dream. Most people have no concept of true beauty.

a happy dancing baby getting married to a corgi pup in front of double sunset rainbow

"share this with my circles"

http://aka-img-1.h-img.com/media/img/b/hn/3744891/4728508459502718300.400_600r

Every speedrun of "Castlevania Dracula X: Rondo of Blood".

Is that a real game title

Dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sME5_tyRbkg

Only the best Castlevania game ever!

https://twitter.com/#!/antimega/status/187613473524559872

one positive I could see from this is that amateur POV porn will be better

someone else probably has mentioned that itt I dunno

"better"

via that link: can you use animated gifs as twitter profile pics now?

yeah I've seen some

"better"

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, April 6, 2012 12:48 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

better camera work yeah

via that link: can you use animated gifs as twitter profile pics now?

not everything displays it correctly but yeah

all you have to do is change the gif file extension to .png and twitter is tricked into displaying the animation, its been like that

More prolific.

This is probably EXACTLY what it will be like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRF0rBXIeg

dear google, call me when you have an internet browsing device i can stick my dick in

yours truly, consumer

I'd deal with ads to get the convenience.

NZA: http://gizmodo.com/5878901/confirmed-fleshlight-developing-ipad-case-you-can-bone

good god

I am kind of shocked that you were not already aware of this.

Not because you would use one!!! Just because that seems like the kind of thing you would gleefully mock.

most of my internetting is at work so I generally learn about NSFW lols through ILX links

Then I guess I'm surprised nobody has linked this before. It's been around for awhile. I don't want to think too much about how I've known about this for so long.

i'm on their press list for some reason so i'm surprised i didn't know.... unless they removed me from the list?
it's sad it was a fleshlight

Your DN is somehow appropriate to this conversation.

prescient

Never mind all the internet surfing stuff, if they could just make googles that block out shit like that then I'd be happy.

they already do! there's a filter on Google searches coming from our IP address that filters out certain words like "porn" (which was a bummer when I was searching for "torture porn" pics to tease jjj with)

I mean that if you were on the bus, and some pervert started masturbating with his Fle5hlight enhanced iPad, then the googles you were wearing would automatically pixilate that area of your vision.

there's already a low-tech solution for that called "averting your eyes"

also bus experiences must be vastly different in the UK as opposed to here

no...not really

No joke - right now I'm on a bus across the aisle from a guy talking out loud to himself about sexing the sexy ladies.

xp A Google search for 'bus pervert uk' convinces otherwise.

xp wait, you're on a bus with Foghorn Leghorn?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Foghorn_Leghorn.png/175px-Foghorn_Leghorn.png

Also this Fleshlight/iPad strap gadget should be called the iPud.

talking out loud about sexing the ladies on the bus is a very different thing from using your $1K+ masturbatory aid on the bus

maybe I'm crazy for making a distinction here

it's a slippery slope

Using $1k masturbatory aid on your solid gold private bus vs talking about sexing the ladies on public bus

apparently it's a slippery bus seat

fnar

The only thing that keeps me sane on a bus is not thinking about what fluids might have soaked into the seats on previous journeys.

it's true that there are few things more disheartening than sitting in a warm seat on public transportation

Tell me about it. One time the pair of jeans I was wearing were ruined because the person who had sat in the seat before me had wet themselves and soaked the upholstery with urine.

the only way to stay sane in general is to pretend that nothing actually exists that you can't see

there are hidden fart residues everywhere you go, remember that

Uhh... Maybe Google could build a fart residue sensing tricorder.

Or maybe Open Source it...
http://www.tricorderproject.org/

i SOOOO glad they decided to go the futuristic route instead of trying to put a screen in some dweeby warby parker frames

still thinking about hidden bus farts

exciting advancements in the field of teledildonics

we need to set up a lab

dildos... from afar?

i didn't even make that up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

fun fact: the same dude who coined the term 'hypertext' also coined the term 'teledildonics'

teledildonic markup language

holy shit I totally thought that was a made up word

the world is so fucking weird, you guys

I wrote an essay about teledildonics while I was at technical college.

okay so now I really want a labcoat with TELEDILDONICS embroidered on it.

logo: dildo encircled by a stylized atom

Probably a department at Aperture Science.

I'm gonna guess the US gov't (and possibly local police) will have 100% access to video taken through this?

if you post it to Google+, I'm sure the answer is yes

although honestly if that's your #1 concern, might I suggest not recording yourself doing illegal things with them?

imho the greater concern is becoming an unwitting google surveillance module

Live updates to Google Maps Street View via people's Google Glasses.

imho the greater concern is becoming an unwitting google surveillance module

quite honestly, if they are live recording everything everyone who is wearing these things is seeing, they either have more storage than god and some unholy unstructured indexing algorithms to make something useful out of all of that data, or they understand that only about 3000 geeks who all spend time with each other are going to get these and the only things they're going to get surveillance of is Fleet Foxes concerts and video journals of failed P90-X attempts

holy shit I totally thought that was a made up word

the world is so fucking weird, you guys

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 6, 2012 12:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

there's an ilx poster, teledyldonix or something

my theory is that exciting new advances in teledildonics + WoW + IV drips + industrial capacity poop socks will lead to the end of the world

fill all our holes and give us output stents and tv land
romney 2012

they either have more storage than god and some unholy unstructured indexing algorithms to make something useful out of all of that data

I thought it was generally assumed that they have this.

industrial capacity poop socks?! does google make those too?

http://www.midlandpowerhoists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/chute1.jpg

That video seemed like a nightmare scenario on par with Come and See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Ro0SZf438

What problem do these glasses think they are solving? Are there people who are entering bookstores screaming WHAT DO I DO FOR 5 SECONDS HOW DO I FIND ANYTHING OR GO ANYWHERE AND WHY DON'T I HAVE INFORMATION BEING RECORDED BY A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION RIGHT NOW

"Are you just seeing holograms and talking to yourself all the time?" - what someone next to me said when I played the video

Google Glasses: the high tech product that makes you act and perceive the world like a meth head.

yeah i almost got taxi railroaded in nyc when i was listening to my walkman, so definitely wouldn't wear this thing around the streets.

if they added some extra AR visuals, to give me an option to 'theme' my world view that would be awesome.

imho the greater concern is becoming an unwitting google surveillance module

unwitting? more like WILLING. more like "I WILL PAY YOU TO LET ME TURN MYSELF INTO GOOGLEDRONE 2.0 THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER"

well it's possible that google-driven cabs will be programmed to not hit anyone w/ google-glasses on

they either have more storage than god and some unholy unstructured indexing algorithms to make something useful out of all of that data

I thought it was generally assumed that they have this.

they do have this. the company's reason for existence is to own as much information as possible.

xp
what about Apple and Microsoft driven cabs?

from what former employees of Google tell me, it's basically Hank Scorpio Corp. over there

xp

I think we all need to watch out for microsoft driven cabs

They crash more often than the others.

hur hur

you can spot them from far away however because they're blue

also...they suck

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/Taxi%20Crash.jpg

That's what you get for trying to run DoubleSpace.

Or Norton System Doctor (which put a frankly pointless traffic light in the system tray and s-l-o-w-e-d the computer down so much)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://fashionchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/diane-von-furstenberg-google-glasses3-540x405.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE

This Google Glass thing makes exciting things happen when you wear it - going up in hot air balloons, handling a big yellow snake, skiing, throwing a toddler around - but the catch is you have to listen to Arcade Fire while you do it.

how I can crash into pole while walking

one thing that I haven't seen mentioned is that you are walking around w/ $1500 on your face. hopefully they'll include some gps type theft protection but this would be like stealing 3 iphones at once, also easier to just grab somebody's glasses than an object that they are holding.

tho maybe criminals will avoid cyborgs out of fear

this guy is a total asshole but this is a look into the design aspect of glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Tsrg_EQMw

$1500 prototype available now, they plan to have $500 pair out by the end of the year.

i still fucking hate these things, and it still seems inevitable. there's nothing more annoying to talking to someone and they keep getting distracted by their phone. the wave of the future version of that is that you're talking to someone and they keep glancing toward their mini-screen in the upper-right corner of glass. the guy only does it twice or so in the clip above and i already want to die.

jeez $500 really

I hope apple comes out w/ some cyborg gear fast so I don't have to give my money to this evil company

xvido - why the hell would you need abookstore when you have yrou kindle in your google glasses

"ok glass take a picture" definitely gives you the split second control needed for getting just the right shot.

kindle is only in your amazon-glasses, which also automatically provide a pricetag on any object you look at

Will probably be an early adopter. Can't wait to piss every one off with them.

and yeah, they look dorky as hell but i'm sure within a few years apple will make it sexy somehow. then there's this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdD5-woi_os

which brings up DARPA's explorations of augmented-reality contact lenses that projects images onto the lenses themselves. obviously a huge improvement on glass - now, instead of people irritatingly glancing to their upper-right while purportedly having a human interaction with you, they'll instead stare blankly into the center of their contact lens, catching up on Parks and Recreation while you bore them to the death in the background with stories about your sister-in-law.

"ok glass take a picture" definitely gives you the split second control needed for getting just the right shot.

yeah, but you could just as easily say "ok glass take a video" and then grab a still from it later. don't worry, glass has got you covered for everything you want. "ok glass, poop for me"

how does glass prevent someone else from using your voice controls

like lets say you have a twin w/ the exact same voice as you, can't they just fuck w/ your glass

and what if they both are wearing them and sitting next to each other

I hope apple comes out w/ some cyborg gear fast so I don't have to give my money to this evil company

dying

I am not a fanboy, apple is just less evil because it exists as an alternative to the creepy company taking over the world

it's like canada, canada still does shitty things but its existence as an america-alternative makes it relatively-virtuous

I thought you were being sarcastic

dying less

don't die dan you will miss out on the cyborg age

it's okay, you will have the technology to rebuild me

personally, i can't WAIT until advertisements are directly beamed into my retinas

of course, i could pay an extra $30 a month for the premium/no-ads plan. what's that, homeless person dying in the middle of the sidewalk? leave me alone! i'm TRYING to determine my optimum google glass payment plan here! ok glass, play goldengirlsmarathon stream, place video over homeless people.

that homeless person may be dying but he has google glass on and he thinks he is a wealthy man on a private island

Actual TVGoHome sketch made actual.

(a disproportionate amount of the results of GIS on 'TVGoHome virtual reality' feature Momus - because they're from ILX)

i can see some clear and obv uses for this but god i hope it doesn't come to a point where i think i 'need' one of these in every day life.

I think the real problem w/ these is that they are not symmetrical, wouldn't look so weird if they just had another piece of plastic on the other side just to match the camera. until they get that right everyone is gonna stare at you, just like people stare at people who wear eyepatches or w/e.

like you make it symmetrical and these just look like weird/shitty sunglasses and not some device that's gonna shoot lasers

I guess the early adopters kinda want to be stared, esp for $1500, at but I just want to read the internet in peace, as a cyborg

stared at*

that homeless person may be dying but he has google glass on and he thinks he is a wealthy man on a private island

Until it malfunctions then it'll be like the intro to Syndicate Wars...

"Either put on these G00gle glasses or start eating that trash-can!"
http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/they-live-glasses.jpg
(L-R, ZS, DJP)

in the "I Used Google Glass" video above the designers go out of their way to stress that they want glass be easily accessible, "closer to your senses", so that you can then ignore it and move on with your (augmented) life. hence the little viewscreen in the upper-right corner of your vision. but it's easy for me to imagine a large subset of people who would rather make the glass part Full Screen, and relegate the "real life" feed to the corner of their vision.

One thing this would be good for though - albums on Glass that project cool images while you listen to music.

while driving to work

The problem with that is, if someone can afford to throw out $1500 on reality augmenting/blocking glasses, their life probably doesn't suck enough for them to need them.

google car is driving you to work, duh

'This rollercoaster sucks' *listens to Exai* 'That's better'

unless you don't have a job cause silicon valley decided yr industry was in need of 'disruption'

xpost in that Full Screen scenario, it would then be relatively easy to be able to point and click on objects/links in your glass view. you could just reach out into the open (real life) air, and it would able to recognize your unique hand/fingers and what you were trying to click.

spooky. i can see hordes of people on the train, outstretched arms like zombies

You don't need Google Glasses to see that...

http://www.ignisfatuus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/alex.jpg

GLASS it is called glass

glassES are for 20th century bags of flesh

GLASS is for ambitious 21st century beings who realize the limitations of their 'birth body', for example, you can't take pictures w/ it

lol @ 'birth body'

'Glass', got it. Rhymes with 'ass'.

anyway, the "augmented reality" aspect of glass is kind of besides the point because so many of us are already living in an augmented reality. it's just cumbersome augmented reality because we have to reach into our pockets and grab phones and manually type in things. or ask siri to do it for us. glass does many of the same things, it just makes it easier, while adding a few cool new features. so yeah, it's just as inevitable as the massive adoption of cell phones was. you can say you won't use them, but three years from now you'll be wondering when Ocean's Fourteen is playing at the local theater, and while you fumble for your phone your dorky friend with the augmented reality contact lenses will swipe at the air for a few seconds and then say "3pm, 6pm, 8pm, 9:30pm and 11pm". oooooone of uuuuuuuusssss

'local theater'? I am just gonna watch it on my glass

you know what would be a good name for the apple glasses? iPatch

omg

OMG yes; so long as they don't turn me into a vegetable

either iPatch or iPiece

maybe iSpy if they want to be less literal?

iball

ispy just sounds creepy

iYiyi

ipeep

iWear

iwitness (barf)

iStrain

pinki

when will they come out with the google dildo

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and head of the company's Glass project, said the computerized eyeglasses are more masculine than smartphones.

http://www.computerworld.com/common/images/site/features/2013/02/sergeybrin_google_glass_338.jpg

sergei brin is more masculine than a smartphone at least until smartphones can grow beards

"more masculine" just stop it

this argument is moot until I get firm stats on how much google glasses can benchpress

the contemporary conversation around masculinity is doing a good job of diluting the meaning of the word. I can't even guess at what he means by that.

really, nothing says "masculine" to me quite like pastel-hued eyeglass frames

I blame agriculture.

"OK Glass, wikipedia Dick Proenneke"

I wonder which porn site is going to be first to have Google Glass-optimized content

* registers the domain 'assforyourglass.com' *

glassbottomboat.com

may your foist eyeglass be a maaasculine eyeglass...

the more I think about this the more I think it's gonna be a total failure

if not google, whoever utilizes this as a space warfare gaming peripheral is going to be rich.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080812122002/memoryalpha/en/images/a/ae/Jemhadar_hud.jpg

this is gonna be like a google plus account you can wear

http://theinteractivist.com/messages-from-the-future-the-fate-of-google-glass/

People who left them on in social situations were openly called “glassholes”.

http://creativegood.com/blog/the-google-glass-feature-no-one-is-talking-about/

teaser:

Google Glass might change your life, but not in the way you think. There’s something else Google Glass makes possible that no one – no one – has talked about yet, and so today I’m writing this blog post to describe it.

^actually a good article for real though

The Google Glass feature that (almost) no one is talking about is the experience – not of the user, but of everyone other than the user. A tweet by David Yee introduces it well:

There is a kid wearing Google Glasses at this restaurant which, until just now, used to be my favorite spot.
The key experiential question of Google Glass isn’t what it’s like to wear them, it’s what it’s like to be around someone else who’s wearing them. I’ll give an easy example. Your one-on-one conversation with someone wearing Google Glass is likely to be annoying, because you’ll suspect that you don’t have their undivided attention. And you can’t comfortably ask them to take the glasses off (especially when, inevitably, the device is integrated into prescription lenses). Finally – here’s where the problems really start – you don’t know if they’re taking a video of you.

Now pretend you don’t know a single person who wears Google Glass… and take a walk outside. Anywhere you go in public – any store, any sidewalk, any bus or subway – you’re liable to be recorded: audio and video. Fifty people on the bus might be Glassless, but if a single person wearing Glass gets on, you – and all 49 other passengers – could be recorded. Not just for a temporary throwaway video buffer, like a security camera, but recorded, stored permanently, and shared to the world.

Just think: if a million Google Glasses go out into the world and start storing audio and video of the world around them, the scope of Google search suddenly gets much, much bigger, and that search index will include you.

maybe I'm just pessimistic but one million seems like a laughably large userbase for this

there's gonna be a lot of great video of people getting repeatedly jacked for their Google Glass tho

i dunno, everyone thought the ipad was doomed too

the ipad would have been doomed if it was called the ihat

I still think the OG iPad is dumb

the iPad Mini makes much more sense to me in terms of size profile; by the time your tablet approaches iPad size, I'd rather just have a laptop

I have used an ipad as a laptop for a year now, about 10% of time I'd rather just have a laptop, about 90% of the time I prefer the ipad, about 0% of the time I'm thinking "I wish I could wear this"

you don’t know if they’re taking a video of you.

They'll have to make them with a light that comes on so that people know they're being videoed...
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060124160958/memoryalpha/fr/images/7/7b/Locutus_de_Borg_2367.jpg

haha imagine if the iPad came with a headband accessory

it only would really work as a top hat

Not even Flavor Flav would wear an iPad on a neck chain.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2010/05/28/apple-ipad-headbands-and-japans-neverending-lines/

http://online.wsj.com/media/IPAD_D_20100528025917.jpg

apparently a gimmick but still, lol

i'm going to ahead and make the bold prediction that at least 1 million people will be using glass (or a similar product by a competitor) by 2015

it's cheaper than an ipad, for one thing (supposed to be $500, right?)

"glassholes"

I think yr average person is pretty self-conscious about how they look to strangers and I really don't think by 2015 someone wearing these will just look normal. like segways aren't even 'normal' today. I think some early adopter young techie dudes will love this but everyone else will get embarrassed pretty quickly. in other words...google plus.

I see a lot fewer people wearing cell-phone bluetooth headsets now. Have they become more discreet, or did people get properly shamed?

People don't talk on the phone as much.

I'm not going to be interested in these until I can 3D print them directly onto my face.

it's cheaper than an ipad, for one thing (supposed to be $500, right?)

baseline iPad Mini is #329 new

lol nice typo, me

most phones don't allow you to turn off the "shutter noise" do they? that was a similar issue - ultimately I can't see this ever be a social norm - maybe like the iPod earbuds where people (mostly teenagers) realize "wow I can have these in all the time" for a week

most phones don't allow you to turn off the "shutter noise" do they?

iPhone definitely does, I think my old Palm Treo did too

most phones don't allow you to turn off the "shutter noise" do they?

I think that's just in Japan.

i have a galaxy and either you can't or i'm too stupid to figure out how

how many glassholes will get punched in the back of the head so it can't be recorded?

"Google now is unveiling the largest database of knuckle topology known to man"

these are so not going to happen come on now

this is why you obviously buy two pairs

i plan on buying a million pairs, hating them all, just so i can win my 2015 bet that i am sure will be closely monitored even though nothing is at stake

i will add a left parentheses sign for every new pair that i acquire

Glass users will need to upgrade to a Glass built into a crash helmet, like the dorky camera-on-a-crash-helmet thing Mick Jagger wore in Freejack.

Thousands of people utter the phrase, "You looking at me?", for the first time.

actually the #1 reason Google Glass probably won't take off is the inability to take a good selfie with it

Just upgrade to Google Mirror.

how many people have used wii or played dance dance revolution? people looking silly is not a deterrent to adoption, at least at home.

right, at home, I would wear google glass at home

in front of my 3D television

but putting these on and walking around is like putting rainbow clown hair or something, like if you're the type of person who just doesn't give a shit or (even better) likes strangers talking to you, that's one thing

putting on*

People who live in Glass houses shouldn't Google stones...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Billy_Joel_-_Glass_Houses.jpg

pretty sure some mcdonald's or walmart exec is going to get the bright idea to make all employees wear them, making shame trumped by "i need a job"

no executive at Walmart or McDonald's remain in their job for very long if they start forcing their legion of employees to wear $500 worth of equipment, particularly in McDonalds' franchise business plan where all of those costs would get pushed down onto franchise owners and devour their profits (not to mention what it would to to shareholders' dividends)

the costs will come down, and they're already paying for headsets, inventory-entry tablets, custom POS etc... anyway.

all the "you'll look dorky in them therefore it will never take off" arguments kinda fall flat (imo) because that's just a design issue. it'll look stupid for a year and then at some point they'll be redesigned fifteen times and there will be a version that's not so laughable. we're not all still using zack morris phones, people, things change

tbh I think they aren't large enough to be ostentatious status symbols like the original car/cellular phones

and that doesn't even really fit in with the modern aesthetic anyway; they'd be better off making them brushed aluminum/matte black/pearly white if they want them to read like modern wealth/taste indicators

i thought the e-cigarette was the ultimate example of "this'll get killed because it looks so dorky" but I see people smoke out of them all the damn time

haha e-cigarettes made complete and total sense to me

permanent nerd goggles hooked up to the internet make a little less sense to me

I've got a wandering/lazy eye and no binocular vision so I'm probably safe from Google glasses.

maybe if they made them look like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/GeordiLaForge.jpg/250px-GeordiLaForge.jpg

we're not all still using zack morris phones, people, things change

i didn't mean that in a status symbol way, i just meant that when cell phones started coming out they looked big and stupid, and eventually they were redesigned to the point where they're no longer ridiculous

Astigmatism in both eyes so I imagine this'll mess up my eeysght even more.

and my typing

and i can see them taking off just because i have a hunch that a lot of people would LIKE to be on the internet all the time. lots of people would not, and lots of people would. every time i look around at the train stop it's just a bunch of people staring at their little screen.

the point, though, was that no one cared that the original phones were huge and super noticeable because they made you look rich and successful; based on the picture linked in this thread, the current iteration of Google Glass just makes you look like a dork

it was also very easy to identify a mobile phone or a car phone and be like "wow, that dude/woman is walking around WITH A PHONE, amazing!" but with Google Glass the initial sight impact is "wow that dude/woman has super ugly glasses"

if your livelihood or lifestyle demands that you look ridiculous, you will succumb.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mjYk8W5sHhw/TWx2r6LpATI/AAAAAAAAAtY/s4onLXP5ipc/s1600/hot_dog_on_a_stick.jpg

phones also give off the impression that people need to contact you

but...my point is that the super ugliness/dorkiness thing is temporary. give it a couple years and someone will come up with a design that no one minds.

cell phones still kind of look ridiculous/amazing to me.

Philip I know you are desperately trying to salvage a stupid joke but it's never gonna work, just let go

if Google Glass looked like this, I would be much more optimistic about its chances for success:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iX9vxsx6zv0/Tf3_aBdrNXI/AAAAAAAAAcc/rsn60FkIN7E/s1600/Most-Expensive-Sunglasses-01.jpg

i'm not joking!

xpost
and maybe they won't even be glasses - maybe they'll be contacts, or whatever, or something else. but if it's purely a design issue, that'll be overcome. when people were first using giant supercomputers with punch cards they probably weren't thinking that tiny, exponentially more powerful iphones were coming just a few decades later

but...my point is that the super ugliness/dorkiness thing is temporary. give it a couple years and someone will come up with a design that no one minds.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:22 (1 minute ago) Permalink

they screwed up the initial design of the segway and they've never overcome that imo

also, i'm sure google would be amenable to allowing third parties to design frames that can be switched out at will with the retail version

i'm not sure that segway is the best comparison here

for one, i don't think that if segways looked really cool that everyone would get one. even if they were free and made you look like a young don johnson, i wouldn't get one, because i don't want to be really lazy

they screwed up the marketing of the Segway, not the design

the whole "Project Ginger will revolutionize your life!" mystery drum-up followed by someone leaking the Segway and them being all "no no it's definitely not a scooter, honest" and then... they unveiled a giant scooter

it also didn't help when their CEO rode a Segway off a cliff to his death a few years ago

what?! please don't let that be a joke

not that i would lol at the death of a human being, but

the segway looked exactly like a scooter, that's the problem

The UK's Daily Telegraph has just reported that Segway company owner Jimi Heselden died after accidentally riding one of his company's machines off a cliff.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/202078/scitech/segway-ceo-dies-after-riding-two-wheeled-scooter-off-cliff

looooool

sorry

"the creator of google glass died this morning after he google glasses himself right into a sheet of glass"

I feel like in general people are way too confident about their predictions about this shit. Even if you're running a hedge fund you need to at least have some doubt as to whether people want to put their cellphones on their fucking retinas.

You don't need to map out every exact use to see that some sort of adoption is inevitable.

On the bus now I see no less than 15 people on those phones right now. I expect to see at least 5 google glasses per bus in 6 months.

hold the phone, er...hold the google glass (dad joke) - is it even out in 6 months?

"Glass, run bugs.exe" *starts swatting at imaginary bugs, slowly goes insane*

I think doubt kinda goes out the window once every man woman and child already spends 90% of their waking life looking at a screen.

personally i can't wait to stare blankly to the upper-right, muttering "i can't...it won't update the...why does the java need to be updated again...wait....there we, yep there we go. now we're good" to myself

Do they still use segways at google?

hahaha digging for a little more about ppl are saying about Google Glass led me to this:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/21857/opinion-google-glass-wont-match-hype

In a moment of comedy gold, Brin even managed to claim that smartphones are somehow bad for your genitals -- and he wasn't referring to the regular scare story of mobile phone masts creating cancer clusters:

“Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people?” he said as he used his smartphone. “It’s kind of emasculating.”

I'm not sure what Brin meant by this. I can't figure out any way in which a smartphone can be seen as disempowering (I even tried a Google search to find a reason). Brin's statement's also a little misleading, as Google's glasses need a smartphone's power and connectivity for full effect.

I know we covered the "smartphones are emasculating" comment upthread but I don't think we really grappled with the fully fleshed-out "smartphones are emasculating unless they are connected to your Google Glass" implication behind that statement

if they weren't freaking out about this failing he wouldn't be saying embarrassing shit like that already

He's probably saying cellphones are weird and awkward to use.

if I tell it "okay glass, let me out" will it play Apoptygma Berzerk at me? if not, that's a dealbreaker

btw sorry if I am reposting things that have already been discussed, but lol:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/03/04/could-google-glass-hurt-your-eyes-a-harvard-vision-scientist-and-project-glass-advisor-responds/

In terms of a change in phoria, which can may happen any time a person uses their eyes for near work when binocular vision is interrupted for an extended period, that shouldn’t be an issue, Peli said. “Google Glass is supposed to be used for micro-use. You look up for a second or two,” he explained. “The interruption of binocular vision is so brief and so small limited that I don’t expect to see any changes in the phoria when it is used as it is intended.”

so basically, this is completely safe as along as ppl don't use it the way everyone in this thread seems to be saying everyone will use it

I dunno what shape the product will take but I'm pretty sure people will use it more than is healthy.

the shape matters a lot in that case

yeah this seems like something that will really fuck with vision+cognition+motor skills etc. sorry I just don't see it. it is entirely different from operating a screen with your hands.

tbh I am just delighted that I was able to introduce Z S to the full spectrum of Segway ridiculousness via this thread

the giggles at the funeral must have been painful to endure

Can you wear one of those cool Bluetooth earpieces AND glass at the same time?

is there an ecigarette thread?
i've been considering starting smoking, but just with those things

Wait dean kamen is still alive right?
The guy I know with an e cigarette still smokes because it's not as good but it helps him cut down.

it wasn't the inventor, just the CEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQthFDpYCys

This is totally not fair, but for the lols:

From: Salivatee thee thusly! The Apple Phone

I really couldn't care less about this thing, even though it comes equipped with a "breakthrough Internet device".
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:52 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know I should be attracted to a "revolutionary phone" but I'm just not feelin' it. (I do like how the description of the "revolutionary phone" makes it sound like a Treo knockoff.)
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:54 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay seriously, the more I read about this thing, the more the entire thing seems like a gigantic joke! The only things interesting here are:
- widescreen iPod
- flip interface for useless shit I don't want to look at on my phone anyway
- random access voicemail
Everything else is something I can already do on my Treo (including listening to MP3s). I am really not caring about this thing at all.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:57 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(xpost) As somebody with a Treo, this looks like a big sack of balls being sold as magic beans.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 2:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dan Perry, you've gotten stupid in your old age. The big things is the modern web browser, the multi-touch and the thing runs OS X.
My prediction is that this thing will have more apps than every other smartphone platform except windows mobile within a year or two
Also, everyone I know who has a Treo kind of hates it.
― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 2:15 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahaha hi Jon!
I think my point is really more "This thing does not satisfy any needs I have that are not already satisfied by my current phone, so why should I care?" than anything else. I don't give a flying fuck about OS X. I don't give a flying fuck about having a fully-fledged web browser on my phone. I don't care about "the multi-touch" (HELLO PRIEST etc). I already have a contract with Cingular so I don't even care about that.
So, back to my original point; given that this thing does not satisfy any of my needs, why should I give a flying fuck about it?
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 3:25 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dan wants this phone so badly!
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 3:34 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, okay! HERE APPLE HAVE MY $600 DOLLARS
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 3:34 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys i hate phones. tell me why i should care about this.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 3:45 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know I didn't respond to the "tiny laptop" comments way upthread but that was mostly because this thing looks like it is not going to satify any of my needs as a tiny laptop, either (fuck a photo album).
This whole thing seems to be an extended exercise in convincing people that they need to buy some bullshit.

(xpost: hahaha s1ocki)
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 3:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still want to punch their marketing people in the nuts. WTF "breakthrough Internet device".
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 6:03 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, the day one of you catches me mooning over zooming in and out on pictures on my phone is the day I give carte blanche permission to all of you to kick my ass because I will have clearly become lost in utter tooldom.
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Forgive me!

ftr I think the iPhone sucked until the 4

I'm skeptical about this because apple isn't doing it

To be fair, to this day there are people who hate iPhones.

and I think they know more about consumer products than google xp

more apps than every other smartphone platform except windows mobile within a year or two

tbf I don't think glass is analogous to the first iphone, it's more in line with the first cell phone, but I suspect some version of this will be ubiquitous within the next few years.

At some point, oakley & ed hardy will team up with google & there will be so many high fives at spring break and youtube will fly off the tracks

I'd use this product right now (although I have a hard time calling it "Google Glass" with a straight face) if there was a version that I could clip onto my regular glasses.

also, get ready for put-em-on-the-glass jokes

I was born ready

this kind of application presents visual and neurological issues that previous products didn't tho. imho I think we're about reached the limit of how much information the human mind can visually process, there's only so much crap we can look at and make use of. our eyes have limits.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/google-glass-women-problems

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/guessedgendergoogle.jpg

ha I was going to post that yesterday but decided I'd reached the limit of lol google results I could post to display my healthy skepticism

"Rachael
22 hours ago

As a female and someone who didn't apply for the Glass Explorers program, I find that your article will have no adverse affects of me consuming the Glass. I think this is a bit over hyped. Most women don't even read TC. "

consuming the glass

Quiet
1 day ago

if cell phones are emasculating, why do so many male professionals have 2 of them? oh wait, maybe theyre not? Maybe what google is getting at is that hands-free alternatives, like the mega-douchey bluetooth headsets (jawbone) are often seen as professional status symbols for men (among douches). If glass comes with such capabilities, which it ought to, it could be the new top-douche headgear for men. Thats probably what google meant, they want to capitalize on insecure men, not that they mean to alienate women.

Not really, but that argument has about as much credibility as this techcrunch article.

that's actually something I never thought of - I don't think I've seen a woman walking around w/ a bluetooth headset in my life

women talking on Bluetooth earpieces as they walked down the sidewalk was a Back Bay staple in the late 2000s

boston doesn't count, cmon

I've seen plenty of women talking hands free, but most of the people I see walking down the street are talking via earbuds with mic. Or they're just crazy ppl listening to tunes.

I would wear google glasses if they looked like this

http://i.imgur.com/Bcx4Y5h.jpg

i see women with bluetooths about as often as i see men with bluetooths
it's gender unbiased and terribleperson specific

my wife wore a Bluetooth

i'm so sorry

I'm not, she's awesome

well i was sorry about the bluetooth but now you're making me feel guilty

I got a Bluetooth for my buddy so he won't die while driving, but he still texts, so I might have to get one of these things as well so he doesn't die.

xp: I would just like everyone to know that I just made a breakthrough in Recognizing the Line and Not Crossing It just now and I expect to be showered with praise and gifts

If he still uses his cel while driving ill kill him

seems counterproductive

I am pretty sure these will be illegal while driving

that's why you buy a google self driving car

http://i.imgur.com/bPqLUlG.jpg

there is one person in the universe that can pull off clogging and chatting on their bluetooth

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIpQVHqCAAATrxW.jpg:large

googleglassofokcupid.tumblr.com must be on its way

Big kerfuffle in the developer camp about Google's restrictions in creating apps. No ads (which is good if not great), but you're also not allowed to charge money for apps.

Is it going to be one of those things that's ad free for a few glorious years and then, gradually, you're like "ok glass, close the Home Depot commercial and open up my Doritos(tm) email"?

Mmmmm... Doritomail....

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/4/28/17/enhanced-buzz-wide-15409-1367186091-7.jpg

Just whatever you do, don't look down otherwise you'll get PE spam.

how low can you go

that photo is an instant classic

nyt claiming that the future of glass is THOUGHT CONTROL

link?

i'm gonna guess forks is talking about this: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/disruptions-no-words-no-gestures-just-your-brain-as-a-control-pad/

or this http://bit.ly/12URC6y

yes to both

http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/

that is excellent

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/inherent-dorkiness-of-google-glass/

Where is this world where people don't wear Bluetooth earpieces?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/google-glass-developer-writes-an-app-to-snap-photos-with-just-a-wink/

Some hipster girl on a bike yelled “FUCK YOU AND YOUR GOOGLE GLASS!”

from (http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-serves-you-free-champagne-when-you-pick-up-your-487281745)

http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/02/Screen_Shot_2013-05-02_at_3.57.40_PM_610x393.png

how is that even a legal passport photo i mean

lol, the aerials

http://www.manifestdensity.net/2013/05/02/project-glass-is-scary-enough-to-deserve-some-respect/

I'm way more excited for the hypothetical iWatch. Part of it because I agree with the dork effect those glasses have.

Where is this world where people don't wear Bluetooth earpieces?

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The world of 2013.

Jesus, that dude sure is sensitive about his google glasses. Xpost

concludes by belittling Glass’s lack of coolness — as if coolness was an objective quality rather than something constructed collectively by people like the author himself. It’s a bit mind-boggling that anyone could so thoroughly fail to see the arbitrary nature of culture. (The best reply to the Wired piece is probably this great post by Bianca Bosker discussing the history of eyeglass adoption. But for a shortcut, the next time you see a world leader wearing a business suit, reflect on whether Europeans just happened to come up with the objectively awesomest formal attire.)

This is a pretty poor argument. "Coolness is arbitrary! We can make anything cool!"

I'm way more excited for the hypothetical iWatch. Part of it because I agree with the dork effect those glasses have.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, May 6, 2013 10:00 AM

well you're in luck because it's probably going to be out this fall: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4258272/apple-tim-cook-teases-exciting-new-product-category

interesting moment anyway -- if the glass is successful, it will make an "iWatch" look kind of quaint. I'm not convinced yet that people will want to wear the internet on their face, but then I didn't believe people wanted it on their phone either. The problem is that not anyone can make something cool. The cool kids can make something cool. Apple has always been the cool kids, and Google less so.

And also, I really don't think the "coolness" of Apple products is arbitrary, it comes out of very fine attention to design and functionality.

one thing to keep in mind, though, is that the version of google glass that everyone's using now isn't really a consumer product yet; it's for devs, press, and tech enthusiasts. the "iwatch" or whatever it'll eventually be called, if it's released in the fall, will be released then as a consumer product, meaning that a lot more people will have their hands on a finished version of it before they have their hands on a finished version of google glass.

another thing to think about is that glass as it stands is still a peripheral to a smartphone that requires a smartphone in order to operate. we don't know what apple'll do with the watch yet, but they could conceivable make it a full, autonomous ios device, which would be interesting.

whether or not you'll be able to write apps for it is another open question.

interesting moment anyway -- if the glass is successful, it will make an "iWatch" look kind of quaint. I'm not convinced yet that people will want to wear the internet on their face, but then I didn't believe people wanted it on their phone either. The problem is that not anyone can make something cool. The cool kids can make something cool. Apple has always been the cool kids, and Google less so.

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, May 6, 2013 8:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was clear that people wanted it on their phones before the iphone, as there were tons of phones w/ internet before the iphone. they just kinda sucked.

like there's a huge gap between 'more useful version of object you already have and use' and 'object that requires you to walk outside looking like a cyborg'

i'm not sure how i feel about wearable computing in general. i wear regular glasses right now but i'm not sure i'd wear glass or an apple watch. i'm kinda not into wearing extra shit i don't have to. but maybe there'll be some sort of societal shift towards most people wearing these things, and i'll go along with it, or maybe there won't be.

fwiw, i don't sense a lot of excitement coming from the parts of the apple world i follow about an "iwatch"

gruber doesn't seem excited

wearing an iwatch is just like wearing a cool watch

it's not so crazy or socially risky, people wear watches

that's true

you could wear the iwatch to work and nobody would pull you aside and say 'uh that is not really appropriate'

but if you wear google glass to work and you work at a non-tech company you will be a pariah

sure

Can you take inappropriate pictures of people in a bathroom with an iWatch? Because I won't use it unless you can

yeah just shove your wrist under a stall and snap away

that video link i posted in the other google glass thread has scoble boasting about having a wazz at some public urinal, and how the socially acceptable aspect of that will thrash itself out because everyone will be wearing one of these things

Google Glass

http://thenextweb.com/video/2013/05/01/google-glass-and-the-future-of-wearable-computing-with-andrew-keen-and-robert-scoble-video

https://twitter.com/LucasPerlove/status/328554269802389504

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/technology/personaltech/google-glass-picks-up-early-signal-keep-out.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/03/google-glass-hipsters-review?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This is like the 20th hipster-on-the-street interview I've seen filmed at the bedford stop. Folks are going to start tripping over these journos and videographers soon.

Fred Armisen's SNL bit on this very OTM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKT86RmCEAEnWQI.jpg

^ could totally be a lucille flashback scene from the new arrested development

http://i.imgur.com/TOyW6fr.png

Then there's caution thrown at the device's lavish cost - currently expected to be $1,500 once released - as a danger of easily being stolen.

so looking forward to people trying to crowdsource the recovery of their stolen google glass like they do with bikes and getting sent on malicious pointless road trips

the consumer version is gonna be cheaper tho still worth stealing

fuck fashion, i want the internet in my eyes

http://minoritieswearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/18/how-technology-redefines-norms/

Update: Noah Brier points me to a quote from Daniel Mendelsohn, who goes back further still than the Victorians:

I am amused by the fact our word idiot comes from the Greek word idiotes, which means a private person. It’s from the word idios, which means private as opposed to public. So the Athenians, or the Greeks in general who had such a highly developed sense of the radical distinction between what went on in public and what went on in private, thought that a person that brought his private life into public spaces, who confused public and private, was an idiote, was an idiot. Of course, now everybody does this. We are in a culture of idiots in the Greek sense.

relevant to ilx

Yeah I don't know if I want this Google Glass thing to happen. Felt it wasn't really coming and now that it is, it's kinda depressing. I'm no anti-technology person at all, it's just that the GG irritate me in a special way.

xp, nice story, probably rubbish. From oed: Greek ἰδιώτης private person, person without professional knowledge, layman, ignorant, ill-informed person, in Hellenistic Greek also common man, plebeian.

right, like, someone without the brains to say anything in public? unfit for the agora, etc

This is just cribbing Arendt, but private/public here is also totally bound up in the citizen's apparent adequacy at managing his household, ie., dominating his wife and slaves. Doing that is what enables him to be a public citizen. So I'm not so sold on any "let's take it back to the Greek idea of privacy!" type of thing....

yeah my sketchy education in classics led me to believe the private/public distinction was gendered: politics = 'of the town', of discourse, of argument, of men, outdoors; while economics = 'of the house', of work and labor, of women and servants, indoors

Don't give a shit what the etymology is -- you're going to look like an idiot if you wear one of these things, even just to your bathroom.

Ive always suspected being made to look like an idiot is a perk when bosses mandate employees adopt these sort of things

You'll look ridiculous now. Once Hugo Boss do the stylings that barrier will disappear. Then what?

Hugo Boss needs to work on Bluetooth earpieces first and then get back with me.

wouldn't the involvement of fashion raise the looking like an idiot factor to newer and greater heights?

from the teaser video it looks like a good way to get run over by a car

fab way to cull the herd imho

fashion-wise the underlying problem is that these things need to be symmetrical, even if that just means some otherwise pointless piece of plastic on the other side

what we just add on some pieces that plunge screws into your eyes when you attempt to activate them

Talk of oscar 2014: bjork with gouged out eyes and a dress made entirely of google glasses with screws constantly gouging pieces of bjorkflesh. Lars von trier approves.

How about placing even more dynamic content on the left eye!

Weather on the left, text on the right, traffic conditions on the left, 2 new emails on the right, software upgrade 4.2 is now available on the left, your instagram gas been liked a total of 9 times on your right, Friends of Carl Sagan has recommended content for you on the left, flashcoupon grants 20% off your b&h order if you say ok glass clip the coupon within 20 seconds on your right, your sister is requesting FaceTime on your left, CAR IN FRONT OF YOU IN REAL LIFE

you died

Oh wait, just let your google car drive for you

Oh wait, just let google car drive over you

Why do they have to be symmetrical, again?

because then you don't look like a cyborg you just look like someone with huge glasses

ok to be fair a GIS of "steampunk monocle" yielded a real treasure trove of awfulness but i don't think we should feel bound by that

I mean you kinda still look like a cyborg

http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/baby_glass2.jpg

Symmetry - yes, they should've made bluetooth earpieces more like earmuffs.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100915195713/starwars/images/e/e0/Lobot_SWSB.png

TEAM LOBOT

i'm picturing more like

http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/city-of-lost-children.jpg

http://us.cdn002.fansshare.com/celebrity/ladygaga/450_lady-gaga-alejandro-jpeg-258277911.jpg

http://www.rubberslug.com/user/6258568a8d804292a8d932d5f4e4ded2/236101-3059152-VegetaScouter01.jpg

"Glass! How many hits have I gotten on my latest podcast since this morning?"

I think the biggest failure of this thing will be requiring nerds to willingly speak out loud.

scoble dot jpg

the guy will not shut up

but yes, i see your point, and i think nerds will kill off its chances if anything. also i remain convinced that it's the sorts of sports-jacket-wearing wankers who get about in bluetooth headsets who will be flaunting this glass thing more than anyone else (including nerds).

I don't want this to get into a nerds against the world thing, but I will say that the secret to the Internet, the texting, the Facebook, the pornography, the Amazon, has relied on the ability to not have to speak out loud. Making this part of the operation of how this new fangled machinery works is going backwards.

it's a different market imo

Yeah has voice recognition software dramatically improved by leaps and bounds recently or something? I never used Siri but I can't imagine surfing the web or typing emails with your voice and having it go smoothly.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-22/inside-googles-secret-lab

RIP Google Glass

don't be evil guys

RIP my childhood dreams of science developing "x-ray glasses"

xxp Between that and their ban on facial recognition apps, say goodbye to Google Glass 8ukkak3 pr0n

I don't want this to get into a nerds against the world thing, but I will say that the secret to the Internet, the texting, the Facebook, the pornography, the Amazon, has relied on the ability to not have to speak out loud. Making this part of the operation of how this new fangled machinery works is going backwards.

srsly

if there were still more john-frink-style nerds instead of hepcat stanford grad startup habitues no one would ever have believed talking out loud more would be better

Imagine people wearing Google Glass on buses shouting "give me pr0n, dammit!"

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le4q0x5c2w1qaptap.gif
nothing to see here, worf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6SptGh4uw

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-08/watch-drone-piloted-through-google-glass

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/17/for-3000-metas-augmented-reality-glasses-provide-a-look-at-the-future/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/03/whats-the-problem-with-google-glass.html

^ my ongoing fascination will never abide

“I didn’t start recording until I got called names and flipped off, in hopes that they would correct and refrain their behavior,” Slocum told me. “Instead, it instigated the situation.”

amazing photo with that story
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/GoogleGlasses-580.jpg

s@rah sl0cum's 15 minutes are getting really old

the story isn't 'the difficulties of being accepted as a google-glass wearer' it's 'just how annoying were you when you were drunk and wearing google glasses?'

the descriptive phrase 'the end of a pubcrawl' should tell everyone anything they need to know about this 'incident'

people on a pubcrawl should be kneecapped just because.

the (anthropological) human spirit rises up indomitable!!

But snapping with your smartphone gets a pass, whereas Glass often arouses suspicion. Part of the reason may be that Glass bypasses the familiar, disarming physical ritual of photography: when a person raises a camera, or a smartphone, everyone know what it means. Somehow an indicator light seems insufficient to overcome perceptions of Glass as furtive and dishonest.

the author was right to contrast this problem to headphone privacy, would have been nice to draw the conclusions further than cellphone-snapping as far as incursion/intrusion into publicly visible/audible spaces goes.

Slocum doesn’t consider herself a glasshole, but rather an ambassador for the new technology.

an ambassahole if you will

Please, I'm not an asshole. I am an amglassador. Now since you flipped me off, I will stare at you while my weird glasses self-illuminate.

greetings meatface. i come in the name of a great new technology which will change the way you poop and shop. do not be alarmed. if you alarmed i will record your reaction to the universe. please do not blame me, i am an empty tube for data and purchases. i can help you chrome your meat so looking at people is less boring and lonely. and you can find nearby pizzerias don't you want to do that with your face.

IPads looked weird for about 6 months, then everyone got used to it and now most everyone is fine with it. Mobile phones got ridicule for being ugly when they first appeared, right? And kids are bullied for wearing glasses.

One they start making cyborg glasses that look like raybans or whatever I can totally see it taking off, even if all the privacy concerns are kinda valid.

i've never seen anyone use ipad as a camera like they do in those somber commercials.

the ipad would have been doomed if it was called the ihat

― iatee, Monday, March 4, 2013 3:44 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the question w/ the ipad was never 'oh man will I look like a fool' it was 'will I ever use this thing, I already have a phone and a computer'

Oh sure, as well as people going "it's just a big phone" rather than "it's a tiny but powerful computer". That's got nothing to do with the weird sense (maybe just me?) of entering the future the first time I saw a few of them in the wild.

lol nyer commenter

'I'm sorry, but I fail to understand what is totalitarian about the goal to organize all information.'

oh good lord

wait wait it's the "all" part right?

they should've gone with a monocle design

'ok glass'

http://www.harry.pottercostume.com/wp-content/uploads/mad-eye-moody-bio.JPG

Emotion tracking reads people's emotions and relays them to the GG's display...
http://www.hopeofthefuture.net/references/gunsnroses-ycbm-25.jpg

'I'm sorry, but I fail to understand what is totalitarian about the goal to organize all information.'

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080107201828/en.futurama/images/5/5e/BrainSpawn.png

they should've gone with a monocle design

Why do people wear a monocle?

Hot new app monoc.ly

google monocle would never work as they would constantly be faced with electonic failures caused by surprised users dropping them in their tea cups

has this been posted yet? i totally hate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VRFuSyzzc

the best part is when it flashes LETTUCE, EGG, CHICKEN as he's eating his salad. i like the idea that he has no idea what anything is

i like how the protagonist of this video is your classic everyman: waking up late, gazing out the window of his manhattan highrise, and then quickly putting on a suit so he can hop in his ferrari to drive to the billiard hall.

for the rich moron

i wonder what the models who made that commercial thought about it

Brian Cookson
1 month ago

Wow, it looks like this will finally make everyone's lives so much better! Hooray for the future!!! ;)
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has this been posted yet? i totally hate this:

some lolz were had on the LOLZ thread

lol yessss

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/egglettucechicken_zps40d04738.gif

and why is he carrying around so much cash

i don't see why the glasses didn't tell him SHE'S PLAYING WITH HER HAIR GO FOR IT BRO

then later when she comes over the glasses verify her identity like, whew

also shouldn't it end with him giving her a pair of glasses so they can both do that to/with each other

lol, what a fucking horrible person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4

these fuckin bitches

Pretty sure everyone involved with that video is "seriously killing san francisco."

oh look you can also subscribe to sarah slocum's face