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Telepathy One takes on Google Glass with ultra-sleekness

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [7]

This week the folks at Telepathy Inc have revealed the smallest - and arguable the most fashionable - alternative to Google Glass yet revealed. With the "Telepathy One", wearable technology has once again equipped prospective wearers with an eye-based glasses design, but this time it's only just around one side of the face, and lenses aren't even in the picture. This machine is also a startup, being shown this week on the Japan-based startup-friendly site "Startup Dating". Read The Full Story

PSA: Google I/O 2013 registration begins at 7AM

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google I/O registration begins tomorrow at exactly 7:00 AM PDT, so I hope you all have your alarms set, Google+ accounts registered, and Google Wallet information prepped to shell out $900 for a ticket ($300 for academic students and faculty). Yes, Google is requiring registrants to have a Google+ and Google Wallet account this time around, but I'm guessing most of the people attending already have both accounts set up (or at least one). Read The Full Story

Google Glass user interface demo filmed at SXSW [part 2]

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [7]

As the first edition so foretold, so too is there a second piece of this puzzle: Google's Project Glass appears to have been shown at South by Southwest this past week in at least one well-attended keynote. While we'd seen some relatively blurry looks at this particular showing late last week, this week we're seeing not one, but two relatively close-up versions of the presentation. While we've seen some still shots of the Glass device's basic UI before, here we get more in-depth with how Email, Skitch, and Evernote will work. Read The Full Story

Google Glass user interface demo video filmed at SXSW

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [6]

This past week it would appear that Google has been letting their Project Glass initiative off the leash a bit more freely as several user interface demonstration videos have appeared via South by Southwest. The videos you're about to see show some early third-party developer apps being previewed and a selection of native apps that will be appearing on the first edition of the hardware. This first edition is known as the Explorer Edition and will be arriving in developer hands soon. Read The Full Story

Google Glass re-issues Prescription Lenses assurance

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [5]

It’s time again that Google makes their Project Glass initiative clearly stated, complete with a push for not just those who wouldn’t normally wear headgear on the regular, but those of us with prescription lenses as well. You’ll find that Google’s confirmation this time around is not guaranteed for the Explorer Edition of the headgear, but a release “later this year” is in the works. And yes, if you didn’t know already, that means that we WILL be seeing Glass as a consumer product inside 2013!

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Google gives developers a look at Glass Mirror API and apps at SXSW

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [4]

Earlier at SXSW, Google showed off Glass, giving a demonstration of the device in use and providing developers with their first glimpse of the Mirror API. The demonstration showed the device being used to perform searches, take a photo, view the weather, share with Google+, and more. You can check out a video of the demonstration after the jump. Read The Full Story

Seattle bar bans use of Google Glasses

, Mar 9th 2013 Discuss [123]

A Seattle dive bar has decided to ban the use of Google Glasses at its location. The bar, called 5 Point Cafe, says that the use of Google Glass in its bar would be a violation of its customers' privacy. Dave Meinert, the owner of 5 Point Cafe, stated that "People want to go there and be not known... and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the internet." Read The Full Story

Google Glass: the Feminine Fashion Concern

, Mar 8th 2013 Discuss [10]

If you’ve seen the photo shoots that’ve come out thus far for Google’s Project Glass, you know good and well that they’ve taken just as many photos of the device on the heads of women as they have of men. The idea that the device will not be as appealing to the feminine side of the equation here is about more than just the idea that women will or will not want to wear the first wave of Glass as it appears on the market, but according to a couple of sources we’ve had a peek at this week, there does seem to be some concern that only the distinctly male amongst us will want to go “wearable” with Google in 2013.

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JetBlue shows off Google Glass concept in airports

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [2]

Google Glass is just a couple months away from being shipped to developers, and Google is hoping to have them available to the public sometime before the year's end. In the meantime, people are pondering the implications of the new technology and are coming up with all the ways that Google Glass could be used, including JetBlue, which has come with their own concept for how the glasses could be used for air traveling. Read The Full Story

Nokia “Head Up”: How Lumia’s future is sharper than Glass

, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [18]

Are wearables like Google Glass the inevitable future for smartphones? Not if you ask Nokia, where simply floating a display in your line of sight doesn’t quite satisfy the self-imposed “head up” challenge its designers and engineers are facing. The evolution of Lumia isn’t just bigger displays or faster chips, it’s a new way of interacting with the digital world. SlashGear sat down with Jo Harlow, EVP of Smart Devices, Marco Ahtisaari, EVP of Design, and Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Mobile World Congress this week to talk “people versus robots”, rolling back the clock on convergence, and how the Finns want to pry our eyes away from smartphone screens, even if we’re looking at a Lumia.

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“Emasculating” phones and plenty of rubbing: Brin amps Glass as #ifihadglass ends

, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [10]

You can't accuse Google's Sergey Brin of not doing his level best to promote Glass, with the co-founders comments that current smartphones are "emasculating" us in our inter-personal relationships coming as the #ifihadglass promo for the second round of units closes. "Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people?" Brin asked rhetorically at the TED conference this week, describing the current smartphone paradigm as one long bout of touchscreen rubbing, and revealing a vested interest in promoting wearables since he himself is a phone addict. Read The Full Story

Sergey Brin talks Google Glass at TED conference

, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [6]

Today, Google co-founder Sergey Brin spoke at the TED conference held in Long Beach, California. There, he discussed Google's latest gadget, Google Glass. He praises the many features Google Glass has to offer, as well as its ease of use. He states that Google Glass will help him realize the dream he had when he helped create Google 15 years ago. Though along with the praise, he does make a few statements that are a tad bit offensive to smartphone users. Read The Full Story
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