Do You Plan to Get Google Glass When They Hit the Market?
ABC News U.S.
2013/03/18 03:00:00
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Google has started to show off bits and pieces about Google Glass – those futuristic, Internet-connected glasses that show digital information right in front of your eyes. The company has already demonstrated how you can record video, take photos or search the Web using your voice; a week ago, it showed for the first time some third-party applications.
At the SXSW Interactive Festival, Timothy Jordan, Google’s Senior Developer Advocate, showed off how you navigate the glasses and how apps like Gmail, the New York Times and Evernote work on the glasses.
The glasses have a small screen visible over your right eye. The right arm of the glasses, which contains the computing parts (processor, RAM, etc.), is equipped with a touchpad. Using the touchpad you can swipe through a series of screens or “cards,” as Google calls them. You can swipe down, Jordan said, to clear the interface (“like the back button in Android”) and then tap that arm to select.
At the SXSW Interactive Festival, Timothy Jordan, Google’s Senior Developer Advocate, showed off how you navigate the glasses and how apps like Gmail, the New York Times and Evernote work on the glasses.
The glasses have a small screen visible over your right eye. The right arm of the glasses, which contains the computing parts (processor, RAM, etc.), is equipped with a touchpad. Using the touchpad you can swipe through a series of screens or “cards,” as Google calls them. You can swipe down, Jordan said, to clear the interface (“like the back button in Android”) and then tap that arm to select.
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Top Opinion
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(▪‿▪)DoctorWhoGuru(▪‿▪) 2013/03/19 20:33:39
I NEVER get ANYTHING "when it hits the market"
. . .Oh, wait. People already do that with 'smart' phones (a/k/a government leashes).
Based on these poll results it looks like Google should have done a little more market testing before wasting all the money on R&D; lol.
It would be cool and futuristic.
I would get to pretend to be under mind control.
Cons:
They would be bloody expensive.
A better version will probably come out relatively soon.
If I pretended to be under mind control I would probably burst out laughing and the ruse would be up.
Not only that but I will refuse to talk to anyone while they are still wearing them.
Are we really so mindless that corporations have to tell us what we need?
Hog wash! Humbug! Hocum! Gibberish! Pish posh! Balderdash, poppycock & drivel! 'Smartphones'? Where's the beef? The beef is at the butchers!
Where are the WRIST PHONES?
Cell phones are merely mini tablets! [Tablets are ferda sickos!]
44 pages of Google images ~ YouTube Videos educate
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Sears redirects ~ Alibaba fails ~ UIMobile fails ~ Amazon fails
Spit snot in our face & call it rain!
We want touch screen Dick Tracy Watches with camera ~ NOW!
Specifically: SGM969 Golden Wrist Phone
SGM969 Black Voice Dialing Quad-Band watch phone AT&T;
So where's the golden? Where's any worthwhile advertising?
SMACKS of incompetency, fraud, corruption, mismanagement & stupid!
Ever since Eve, we reject Apple and All Apple Impersonators!
We gotcher 'apps' and anythin 'iPod', iPad' & 'i'itus rite here*!
*[Body map ~ North of da Knees - South of da navel!]
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these devices are useless for me ..
I was visiting a city last year . .
and my travel companion ..
(who is sighted)
remarked to me that there was one of those Google vehicles (with the dome and all)
slowly going up and down the street ..
and it even paused mid intersection as the entirety of the area was .. recorded)
Quite frankly ..
that was not just CREEPY .. but way, way too intrusive ..
and knowing the state of current technology ..
much akin to the targeting of individuals/businesses ..
in a evil way ..
(just too 'BIG BROTHER' for me .. so shudder worthy)
1984 (the book) was never meant to be a blueprint for what we now have ..
in a lot of ways .. that tale is exactly where we are at right now ..
and the fact that there are too many who DO LACK Conscience
(amongst the well-funded political class .. the ones that pass their positions down hereditary lines .. as well as the eternal dependents ) ..
is also something that I see has happened more and more ..
look at the pushes for such as 'food portion control' .. the way that there's now government-sponsored discrimination and pre-judging ..
It was my decision as a parent to have my own children read this book and discuss it with them at an appropriate age
(despite it not being part of the basic education reading requirements anymore)
And while this is the most regulation that America has likely ever faced, I don't think it's even in the same league as 1984's world
but with that incestuous circle of intertwined sociopathy ..
the criminals themselves will self-govern
(and you'd not necessarily notice when the 'vacuum' happened nor who was moved up in the shift)
(they would not be ineffectual at all .. in fact .. it would amount to an almost preternatural form of self-governing power which would require that the vacuum of the weak be filled by someone from other areas who would be stronger in that role and the ties that bind would remain .. )
We're too close for my comfort ..
to that league of 1984 ..
when you look at the antics of those in politics ..
and see how they are not held to the same standard as the rest of the population .. (and how intertwined they are familial lines ..)
clearly .. we have a lot more in common with 1984 .. than with a freedom ..