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.

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