I drink mine right out the bottle!!!
The money quote:
“Google Glass was just plain creepy.”
duh.
I worked on a military base and one of the contractors was wearing them as part of a test project. He got in a lot of trouble. It surprised everyone but me.
Something happened on facebook that really gave me the creeps a few months ago. I posted a picture and it didn’t just ask me if I wanted to tag people. It accurately guessed who they were. Imagine Google glass telling me who everyone around me is as I walk down the street. I can then do all sorts of searches on all of them as I walk by.
I used to say that technology changes as much in five years as it used to change in five generations, but it is moving exponentially faster.
Where does that leave mere men when it is changing that much in five minutes? Can any human culture survive? Amd when will that breaking point come?
Well this iteration is dead. Because this iteration kind of sucked. Being nothing more than an additional interface for the cellphone just is not the killer app. Add the fact that it couldn’t be coupled with real glasses, and the non-hinged earpiece and what you’ve here is a bad product.
Somebody will fix that though. There will (at some point) be a version that IS the cellphone, and goes with real glasses. It’s an inevitable development.
Not to worry – Cupertino will refine the concept & release a robotic presence, whereupon it will receive universal acclaim ......
The platform may be dead but the concept certainly is not. If anything it will get smaller and less easy to spot. You have a cellphone sticking up out of your pocket and maybe a wristwatch repeater and an earbud, and with the right app you’re good to go. No dorky glasses involved. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, I’m saying it’s an inevitable thing.
I was wondering yesterday what treatment the show's writers will give his career now that the Higgs-Boson particle's existence has been verified and proven.
Google Earth and just plain “googling” things are the only two things that bloated company has managed to do well.
Perhaps the company’s secret motto was purloined from Shakespeare....”Much ado about nothing”.
I still think people look ridiculous with the bluetooth earbug thingy.