Comments on: Google Glasses wow geeks

By: Joseph Hudson-Small

Joseph Hudson-Small — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:32:00 +0000

Or “Googles”?

By: Jermaine D. Harper

Jermaine D. Harper — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:11:00 +0000

I always said that everything in Back To The Future Part 2 was real except for the flying vehicles. lmao!!!!

By: Ideagiz

Ideagiz — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:22:00 +0000

even better if equipped with a wireless/bluetooth keyboard

By: Ideagiz

Ideagiz — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000

great tool for people who don’t want their boss to know that they are surfing the web

By: Gadgetmania - Wanderinglex

Gadgetmania - Wanderinglex — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:50:00 +0000

Cramming everything from the processor to the battery into the glasses will make them a bit front heavy, though… The better solution is to have them connect wireless to a smartphone in your pocket or better yet, have a more sophisticated construction like pairing the glasses in the picture with an over-the-ears headset like the Motorola BH503 – then you wouldn’t have to worry about them dropping when you look down…

By: Grady O'Neill

Grady O'Neill — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Ultimately, this is the direction computers will go, with the ultimate goal of becoming fully integrated into our minds. It’s the only logical direction that computing can go, since the real purpose of computers is to aid humans process/store/recall/communicate information.

Hopefully these devices will be open to customisation the same way desktop computers are, with the ability to run any OS, attach extra devices to them (new input/output devices for example), and with a fairly open OS designed to run on these devices which any software developer can create applications for.

If so, we may have a fantastic device on our hands.

If it’s just a ad pumping device designed to be latched onto your head, so you can only see Google ads everywhere, with a few gimmicky features, then it’s just a waste of time.

If it’s just designed to be a ‘cool’ fashionable product to own as a social status, then it’s just a waste of time too.

If it’s a device with only a few ‘fancy’ input means, just for the sake of being ‘fancy’ (voice input only for example), that’s not designed for power users who need to able to work quickly, then it’s just a waste of time too.

… on the plus side, it’d make watching porn on a train pretty easy. <:3 It'd do what headphones did for audio, but for video. You'd be able to enjoy whatever audio/video you want without anyone having to see it, in public!

Infact!.. I'd prefer it if these devices didn't have an OS or any form of computing functions. I'd be more useful if they were just basically glasses, with 2 screens in each lens, and headphones for listening to audio, and microphone for voice input (maybe inner-lens micro-cameras to track eye movement/blinking for cursor/touch control). All that, plus some form of high speed wireless to communicate with the device from another device (for example, smartphone, laptop, netbook, computer, etc). Maybe using some high speed bluetooth or something crazy like that.. that would be fantastic! We don't really need another OS/computer. Just basically headphones, but for video as well as audio. :D

By: Kilorad

Kilorad — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Last month with all of the software patent nonsense going around, I thought, “so what’s a smartphone?” It’s a small computer with a built in screen now, not that different really. And how would artificially limiting a patent for a device like that work with smart glasses or smart pants? And here, this month we find out that Google is working on smart glasses. In a way you know, they don’t have to make the glasses, they could just invent the interface and be a patent troll. Nooooow let’s see some Smart Pants!

Smart Trousers for the Brits.

By: Nimra7891

Nimra7891 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:05:00 +0000

i don’t want to be recognized by other people (strangers) when i’m walking in the street!

By: Mike Hawk

Mike Hawk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000

Wear contacts.

By: Dawley71

Dawley71 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:39:00 +0000

Remember the movie Wall-E? We’re all going to end up just like all of those mindless slobs. We might as well just plug our brains into the Matrix…

By: Zenon Cortez

Zenon Cortez — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:39:00 +0000

The “accommodate prescription lenses”

By: NoNeedForMonkeys

NoNeedForMonkeys — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Auto manufacturers can legally put head-up-displays in front of a driver. I can legally drive and use my phone with a headset or hands-free solution. How is this different? There is a potential for app developers to distract drivers with information that is not vehicle info-data, or navigation. I personally think media and phone functions should remain on the dash.

In other words; there may be heavy regulation imposed to define “what is acceptable information allowed to augment the driver of a motor vehicle?”

By: Mike Hawk

Mike Hawk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:19:00 +0000

True.
I see so many people texting, or looking at their phones while driving. In one sense, at least they wouldn’t have to take their eyes off the road with the glasses, but the distraction factor is a big concern.
I’d like to see what kind of results they would get from testing them under safe conditions.
In the end, you can’t control what kinds of risks people take, or subject others to.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:08:00 +0000

At first I thought this was a joke. It could be pretty cool if it works. My biggest concern would be with how badly people are already distracted, how unsafe would it be to have people running around behind the wheel with these things!? Heck, even walking with them on could cause accidents.

By: Mike Hawk

Mike Hawk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:58:00 +0000

Very cool.

This could be the next big thing. I could imagine these glasses replacing a smart phone eventually.
If you could enable/disable the display quickly, and if you could adjust the tint level…why not wear them all the time.

Phone, music, gaming, gps, photography etc. If they get it right, these glasses could be very useful.

By: NoNeedForMonkeys

NoNeedForMonkeys — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Where does the “eye-strain” FUD come from? I have actually experienced a prototype of this type product (from the company that supplies the actual display hardware used in this tech), the perceived focal distance and size of the display can be easily adjusted as per the preference of the wearer. I set the device to show me a virtual 60″ display at 10ft focal distance. The point is; using the display on this product is as straining on the eyes as reading a street sign from 20feet away with sunglasses on. In fact I found viewing the virtual display allowed my eyes to stay focused on distant objects.

This seems like the platform for 3D augmented reality to me.

By: ProvokingThought

ProvokingThought — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:27:00 +0000

If we are not allowed to use our phone while driving, for safety reasons, why would we be able to view a monitor that is less than an inch away from our face streaming digital content to us? Driving safety would be the biggest issue that I could find with this. Otherwise, expect me to get a pair. They sound awesome. Can we play Angry Birds with them?

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:23:00 +0000

Not gonna lie, if they looked just like that, could do Navigation while I’m driving, and had that Siri competitor they’re working on, I would definitely go for it. Make this an extension of the smartphone, not a bluetooth/airplay type thing and I’ll be first in line lol

Well, maybe first in line online, as there is no way I’m waiting in a line outside for a piece of electronic device lol

By: DGsysok

DGsysok — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:59:00 +0000

How about a Google ‘Beer’ Googles app?
Instantly overlays a pretty models face over pre-selected friends faces from your contact list.
I’d probably buy that!

By: west007ish

west007ish — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:49:00 +0000

how to wear these google glasses if i m already wearing glasses?

By: earl z pearl

earl z pearl — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:43:00 +0000

You must be a marketing guru, things come easily to you like that, obviously, Great idea! Google should pay you for that one.

By: Long Pham

Long Pham — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Google Goggles is already an android app that does searches based on the image in your phone’s camera.

By: Eye4Detail

Eye4Detail — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:37:00 +0000

They’re already using that name for an application.

By: Traynor

Traynor — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Google Glasses? Really? But isn’t the obvious name “Google Goggles” ???? What happened to the the bright marketers they used to have in the 60s? Ad companies aren’t even trying these days.

By: tastygroove

tastygroove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Cool, I’ll put these on when I install my magic Google android lightbulbs.

I’ll take a set, really, just have some doubts they’ll ever be anything but vapor. It’s annoying also because some people might hold out on getting the camera glasses (that are really-real and.accommodate real prescription lenses.)

By: tastygroove

tastygroove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Cool, I’ll put these on when I install my magic Google android lightbulbs.