Okay, this is freaking me out a little…
On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.
The glasses are not yet for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public.
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The prototype version Google showed off on Wednesday looked like a very polished and well-designed pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits above the eye. The glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the wearer to send and receive messages through voice commands. There is also a built-in camera to record video and take pictures.
One person who’s used the glasses told the New York Times that “they let technology get out of your way. If I want to take a picture I don’t have to reach into my pocket and take out my phone; I just press a button at the top of the glasses and that’s it.” Praise Jesus for this, because having to reach into my pocket to pull something out is SO. DAMN. TAXING.
Anyway, here’s the video demo I watched that inspired me to feel a wee bit freaked…
Project Glass contact lenses surely can’t be far behind. Pretty soon we’ll all be like cyborgs straight out of 80s/90s action movies.
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i liked this glasses.i want also
Took the words out of my mouth.
that shit kray.
Video transcript: “Hm! Hm! Hm!”
Looks cool, but I know Google will record everything I do, then fill the glasses up with ads.
Funny….but ur prob right…lol
I’m see boner pills adds while looking at porn on my glasses
It’s funny because it’s true.
I’m pretty sure it’d be against some laws.
It’s like living in VHI’s Pop-Up video, only with less dancing..
Im digging these!!! I want a pair
My instant reaction: Covert sex tapes just got a hell of a lot easier.
I like the way you think, sir.
hopefully with that hottie modeling them up top there
I call bullshit. No way two white dudes can hi-five each other without missing at least once.
aim for the elbow. the secret’s out.
So this is basically Homestuck technology? We’re going to see iShades and whatnot?
This is going to make Batman’s job a LOT easier
If he goes down a back alley in Manhattan somebody’s snatching that headset.
Oh…I thought they’d just look like actual glasses. Not GARBAGE.
That white bitch looks like that nigga from Start Trek!
This will open up entire new worlds of porn.
genuinely terrified of the future
Reminds me of something i seen on Tv already…..
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GOOGLE MAPS HAS DIRECTIONS INSIDE THE FUCKING STORE? this shit is ridonkulous.
Science is good if it is used to do good and it is bad if used to do bad. Basically, science itself is a neutral thing. It is the people who use it who are either good or bad.
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So where is the health bar and ammo count?
women will never buy these. just saying.. so unfashionista.
Shut up and take my money, plus all of my personal information that you don’t already have.
I would like to purchase one. Do you accept souls?
When the hipsters start wearing them, count me in.
/turns up Bear In Heaven
Future woman’s hair is awfully frizzy
2/10 would not bang
So the video call at the end of that – what does the girl see?
It’d be funny to video call someone and tell ‘em you were depressed and you were gonna end it all, and then throw the glasses off the top of a building like the one at the end. You know, if you were rich. And an asshole.
I think it’s a cool idea. But a ton of people are going to wear them while they’re driving and tons of people are going to get into stupid accidents because of them.
Unrealistic. I have looked in bookstores for books about ukulele and have NEVER found one yet.
I guess maybe in the glorious not-too-distant future ukulele books will be more common?
Pretty soon we’ll all be like cyborgs straight out of 80s/90s action movies.
Promise? I’ve been waiting for this since the 80s/90s.
Nice to see that even though you could get books beamed straight into your eyeball like a Kindle strapped to your face, book shops will somehow still survive in Googles future world
I think they should call it the eyePhone.
The future is going to make it more convenient to do a whole lot of nothing.
#geordi laforge. Just sayin, LeVar Burton would be a good spokesperson.
These seem really unnecessary. Nothing about them helped him do anything he wouldn’t already be able to do very easily. These will just be incredibly distracting and annoying. There is no way you can say you lost your phone to avoid someone if you wear it on your face…
I wonder how is this going to work. It is so close to the eye that it seems to me that we won’t be able to focus on the mini screen. I mean, put your finger this close to your eye : you can’t see shit, it’s all blurry.