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Google Glass Can Use iPhone's Data Connection Via Bluetooth
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All it takes is someone to run up from behind and snatch them off your face. But I'm probably just paranoid.
Innovation is only innovation when it actually makes in impact on society for the better. This idea was around decades ago. There were college students at MIT, etc. that had portable computers with eye glasses. All these things are going to do is cause problems. What kinds of problems? If you buy these things, expect to get them stolen from you or your a$$ kicked. Most people don't want to have some loser with a video camera facing them while they talk to someone. How do you get the user to take them off? If you ask nicely and they don't remove them, people might resort to just taking them off for them causing fist fights.
Apple not innovating? Fusion drives is an innovation that is USEFUL. The hybrid hard drives isn't the same thing, Fusion drives are VERY useful and that's a cool innovation.
What else has Apple done in the innovation department? Well, the iPhone and iPad are the most copied products, so those as they are are innovative.
I think that you get sucked into some Google marketing BS.
People coming out with major technology shifts doesn't happen every day, Innovations that actually make an impact on society don't come around and Apple's made HUGE impacts on the way people use computers in different industries over the years. People are used to them innovating, but right now they are evolving their innovations. I'm sure we'll see some more impactful innovations, because the innovations have to "stick" and provide a shift in how people work and live. Google hasn't really done much in the innovation area other than copy Apple.
These Glass devices is a STUPID innovation that's just gonna get the user's a## kicked and laughed at.
Or they can just simply beat the user up and easily take them. These things are probably going to cause a LOT of fist fights. Because people just aren't going to want some LOSER video taping them without permission.
Actually - bluetooth headsets are used by a wide margin. I'm sure your mileage varies. Which just goes to prove that no one opinion is more valid then the next when it comes to adoption.
And with all the cameras, video devices, etc in buildings, on phones, etc - at least here in NYC - I don't actively concern myself with who might be recording me. But I guess that's one of the "downsides" of living in the city
I don't think adoption will be quick nor widespread. But this is just he beginning. 5/10/15 years from now it's very possible that it will be ubiquitous.
I hope Apple doesn't make their own version of these. I won't buy them if they did. I think it's a stupid toy with not much "USEFULNESS" other than some geek toy.
There is no "business or personal NEED" for these. Without the NEED for something, they fall into the category of a childish toy.
Don't like a free world there tough guy? Maybe you would be better suited to just staying inside and not venturing out where the mean people in public can record you.
Satellites are watching you, street cams are watching you, security cameras are watching you, film and photo enthusiast are capturing your image, google maps has your house posted in all its first person glory.
BUT, you're all bent out of shape over the guy with the camera goggles.
So tell us, what are you going to do when someone looks at you with these glasses? Hurt them?
Save a dollar a day and you'll be able to by them in just over 4 years. Right when google contacts come out.
I love that Google is making something like this a reality. It is one of those things we've seen in sci-fi and now there's an actual product people can buy. I don't expect them to get this right immediately. I'm not a fan of voice as primary input because it's so unreliable. But if there are other ways to interface with this that would be great. Like for example a wristwatch-style device with physical buttons, or a chording keyboard you can grip. Or maybe a Kinect-style gesture based thing. This is just the beginning...
I do not think I have seen anyone say anything like this unless it is in response to someone claiming Apple did something first when there were other techs before them. No one **** up the iWatch threads saying Apple ripped it from Dick Tracy now did they?
Everyone claiming $1500 "cannot get into" reading and needs to go back and look at the article linked at the bottom. That was the price for the developer prototype and was never stated to be the final price.
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Maybe its just me but I really don't understand the point of this? Who wants a computer glued to their eyeballs all the time?
Maybe its just me but I really don't understand the point of this? Who wants a computer glued to their eyeballs all the time?
Really, you're gonna wear those glasses while performing ballet?
has potential, but half the stuff shown in that video would not be practical in real life
The only thing these really are is a higher tech version of those video goggles people use to record videos they post on YouTube, but you can get simple video goggles for a couple of hundred bucks if you want to record videos.
Actually - with just the search function - These would be great if you're in a foreign country and want to go sightseeing.
That's just one cool application.
Totally, like who would want a computer in their hand all the time? oh. wait...
Siri
No....
and I've never saw anyone talking to Siri in public because most people know it doesn't even work.
No....
and I've never saw anyone talking to Siri in public because most people know it doesn't even work.
I think your vision (pardon the pun) for what these could be is pretty short-sighted (oops I did it again.)