Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Google Shows Off Glasses of the Future

If the guy in this video doesn't fall into a manhole, no one will.

Google this morning uploaded a YouTube video showing off its planned "reality" eyeglasses, the glasses interacts with what you're seeing and act as a smartphone, day planner, turn-by-turn navigation system, camera and more.



According to HuffPo, there's no definite timetable for release, though the New York Times' Nick Bilton has said that Google employees will be testing these things in public this summer and that the first-generation Google glasses could be released by the end of the year.

Here's what Google envisions the glasses to look like, when worn:

23 comments:

  1. You WILL be assimilated!!!!

    I understand the driving glasses version is to be marketed by BORG-Warner!!! :) hee hee

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  2. Who cares if you don't have any rights anymore? Put on the cool glasses and embrace the matrix

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    1. Yeah, so how do the glasses know Paul is 402 ft away? Maybe the chip in his arm? By next year all email and Google searches will be read by the zombies in Nevada, probably the same guys remote-flying the drones bombing Pakistanis right now, moonlighting.
      Privacy: A word found in dictionaries until 2012, meaning where I am, and what I'm doing is MY BUSINESS.

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  3. We all know where this is headed. Wall-e told us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU

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    1. I wish I could hit a 100 likes on this comment

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  4. Does she come with the glasses?

    Sorry, Wenzel, it was just too easy!

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  5. if they can make me look like her, I'm in.

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  6. "Are you a pervert? Did you just undress that woman with your eyes? GOOGLE KNOWS, and now so do we (and so does your wife)." Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Homeland Security Office.

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    1. Yeah, I like.. but I don't want to LOOK like her. Maybe as GOOD as her.

      The wife is LOOONG Gone he he

      And yes I AM a pervert.

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  7. I used to see this kind of stuff as exciting. Now it just scares me. Does that make me a luddite?

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  8. Glasses that have a microphone and web access and possibly a video camera... Hello data storage in Utah.

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  9. Soon we'll all be saying, "I know kung fu."

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  10. If I had to choose one word to describe the global elites who desire the world, I'd have to say it's: Patience. If two words: Extreme Patience.

    Generation after generation has piled on one phase after another until here we are, frogs, and the water's boiled us done. We've lost virtually everything.

    For generations our rulers have shredded our beloved Constitution, the principles for which it stands, and the economic system it accompanied. They have instituted total surveillance and control over our lives and can even remove, without consequence, our very lives at the whim of a bureaucrat.

    Okay, next step. Now that we're well done and conditioned, we need constant direction. American Idol just isn't enough. Ah ha! We should all wear our Google glasses ostensibly to better organized our freedom-less, ordered, zombie lives. We mumble, "How technologically advanced we are to have such amazing devices to help make our lives better."

    All the while from the bunkers deep inside Utah the subliminal messages are piped to each of our glasses. Much more effective than the old television routines, the messages are individually tailored to psychologically condition for maximum control.

    Comes to mind the old Zep lyric:

    "And if I say to you tomorrow. Take my hand, child, come with me.
    It's to a castle I will take you, where what's to be, they say will be.

    "Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today, way up high in the sky.

    "But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go, it only goes to show,

    "That you will be mine, by takin' our time."

    They have, indeed, taken their time. We are theirs. And, for the most part as a society, we missed it while the warmth of the kettle water felt so good!

    Glasses? Glasses? I don't need no stinkin' glasses.

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  11. Smarty phones and Googly eyes.

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  12. While they are waaaaay cool, no one is asking what might well be the defining question. Are they safe? Forget the electronic gizmo continuously pressed against your skull, and think for a moment about how distracting they would be. We know that cell phone use and texting while driving is a deadly combination - the equivalent to driving drunk. Imagine trying to drive while watching a video or checking out the menu at the restaurant you just passed. Will we soon be faced with people walking down the street bumping into others and walking in front of cars? The truth is that most of us suck at multitasking - we simply do multiple things poorly and call it multitasking.

    On the other hand it may be a moot point, as Google is also working on the self driving car and the glasses can be programed to shout "Watch out dick head you're gonnna run into something!", or "Zip up your pants and don't forget to wash your hands." or when your girlfriend looks into your eyes say, "And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.'" Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 3

    Hummmmm ;-)

    I, am Spartacus

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  13. We'll all be walking surveillance cameras for the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.

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  14. SCARY that anyone would consider using them...

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  15. Yeah but...if I can just stick my subliminal message laden penis enhancement pill Adwords ad right in your face, literally, 17 times a day think how much money I can make ;-)

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  16. Privacy scare aside,

    I find the concept to be fairly interesting. I like the idea of relatively unobtrusive, wearable computers. I wonder if the glasses operate on its own, or if it is tethered via bluetooth to your smartphone? Either way, I find these intriguing.

    And chances are, if you aren't already using Google Latitude, or are checking in at locations via other apps, these won't entice you to do so. You guys DO know there is a way to turn of geolocation when you're our and about and geotagging in photos, right? Just checking.

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  17. Prreettty scareeey.

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  18. Joe "come get me" GooglerApril 8, 2012 at 9:21 PM

    This film was brought to you in co-operation with the Utah Data Center...

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  19. How will people drive with these on? What happens if the screen is too opaque?
    I bet 99% of people will get these and it will CRUSH THEIR EYES.

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