Dunno, to be honest, I can't see how it would be practically operated, and it doesn't seem particularly more helpful or easy than just holding a phone. There have been some older augmented reality concepts which impressed me more.

I thought for sure you would have mentioned the big brother potential of it Faceman.

Dunno, to be honest, I can't see how it would be practically operated, and it doesn't seem particularly more helpful or easy than just holding a phone. There have been some older augmented reality concepts which impressed me more.

Yeh there were a few things that stand out as being impractical - not the least of which is making people wear glasses - but overall it's pretty fucking awesome

Just what we need more smart gadgets to make us think less.

tech and gadgets that take away boring mundane stuff from me (like "how do I get from A to B") give me more time to think deep thoughts and solve the problems of the universe. I can understand for some people that they would just use their newly found spare time like Homer does:



...but the rest of us will get on with the thinking and solving the world's problems!

I thought for sure you would have mentioned the big brother potential of it Faceman.

Well if Google knows where you are you can bet your friendly Democratic Government does.

The googles, they do nothing!

I like it how there was a lack of ads, because that is how I imagine google devices to be.

If it supports prescription lenses, I'd be all over that like a rash. A cool feature would be able to use the camera to get a zoomed in shot. Would be fantastic at sport events.

For some reason the voice recognition didn't write something complete different to what he was saying...

I assume they were using Siri

Yeah, last time I used Google's voice recognition instead of giving me direction to my local pizza hut I'm pretty sure it sent out a broadcast to everyone I know that I was gay and wanted to meet more men.

Yeah, last time I used Google's voice recognition instead of giving me direction to my local pizza hut I'm pretty sure it sent out a broadcast to everyone I know that I was gay and wanted to meet more men.

Well you did ask for a meat lovers surprise.

chicks love ukuleles

^ That vid is the likely reality of something like this, do not want.

Yeah that was my thought, "if I wear these, I'm going to get hit by a car"

I wonder if we're far off from just being able to train some nerve thingies to operate a thingy so that you don't need to use verbal command thingies, and whether it would just be the same speed as fingers.

I think it looks pretty cool, but I'm still not big on voice commands. After more than a decade, it still looks stupid when you see someone walking along having a conversation on their bluetooth headset, and I don't really want to be announcing the content of my text messages or searches. For these reasons, I'll be very surprised if voice control becomes the norm in mobile technology.

Yeah, the speaker in my old phone was rooted so I had to use the earpiece to make calls and I felt like a right dick just standing there talking to apparently no one.

However if EVERYONE is doing it and knows what's going on then I wouldn't think it would be such an issue.

Until I can just talk to my computer or phone or whatever and have it automatically recognise when I'm talking to it, or talking to another person then I cbf pressing a button to make it hear me, then wait for it to recognise me, then start whatever app it is. I'd rather just press the damn button to start the app myself.

For those people who reckon they would walk into poles when using the device...

IMO that's like saying a wrist watch would cause you to walk into a pole or the BMW drivers HUD would cause you to drive into a street post. If these devices did exist, most likely you would get so attuned to using them you wouldn't do stupid shit like walk into a pole. If you did need to have constant eyesight on the HUD you would probably find a wall to lean on or a park bench to sit on while you did that.

Also, there would most likely be an indicator on the device to let people in front of you know that your using it at that moment.

Also I find it very unlikely that by the time the device is able to be made that voice commands would still be the norm. The ability to use eye tracking and have brain patterns analysed to 'write' text messages looks more probable.

seen it.
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/04/steve-jobs-take-on-google-glasses.html