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Re: Google Glass

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Post by vacri »

rayiner wrote: post #505
krapp wrote: post #503

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> You're speaking a lot of romance. Epic events tend to lend themselves to romantic speech. I would stand on a soapbox but then my keyboard would be awkward to reach, and they don't make soapboxes anymore, except out of cardboard. > and shortly after, we packed up and went home, never to return. True. That doesn't at all negate the impact of the initial event though. Just means one we got to the moon we discovered it…

My dad remembers watching the moon landing in Bangladesh, and someone commenting on how it couldn't be possible because "you can't punch a hole in the sky." I don't think he could tell you when he switched from Altavista to Google.

A friend's grandmother told the story of doing laundry in Malta as a young girl, and dreaming with her friends, wishing that there was some sort of 'magic box' you could throw the clothes in, press a button, and have them come out clean.

When the washing machine came out where she was - even though it's an utterly boring item to all of us - it massively changed how she lived her life.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by noonespecial »

artursapek wrote: post #150

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Think of Glass as a new sense instead of a machine. The sense of information. The phone was just a clumsy prosthesis that was a pain to use. Most of what we sense is also "useless". We filter. If sight required us to pull a weird little periscope out of our pocket every time we wanted to do it, it would look like a strange addiction as well.

Surely there's a case to be made for sensory overload for this new sense, especially as people become accustomed to it. "Why do my eyes hurt? -- You've never used them before."

Re: Google Glass

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Post by vicbrooker »

discodave wrote: post #525
vicbrooker wrote: post #202

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That's a really good solution - from memory a similar system is used on the headsets worn on Sydney Harbour Bridge tours. I'd forgotten about them until you mentioned vibrations. I'm actually going to be disappointed if they don't have this in some form. I guess the most elegant solution would be to read skull vibrations rather than use voice at all - I'm not sure how viable that would be though.

That's not for voice recognition, it's to replace the headphone SPEAKERS because it's so windy on the bridge. The thing sits on the bone just in front of your ear. It's a really funny sensation but works well. But I assume the same system would work in reverse.

I know that the bridge headset replaces the speakers, but reversing the system would remove a lot of the inherent problems with a system that relies on speech for input.

I remember using them when I was on the Harbour Bridge what feels at least 5 or 6 years ago - so maybe the tech has developed enough since then. Especially if Google has been throwing resources at it.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by kamaal »

rayiner wrote: post #444
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Dude I don't care what you think, but Google is the greatest technology organization ever existed. The "How It Feels" video literally made me in tears because the vision is so great, so compelling. The way we interact will change fundamentally, but that isn't a bad thing. People are always terrified by progress because progress means difference, and people feel comfort in falling back to the same thing. But, again, I…

> but Google is the greatest technology organization ever existed. Bullshit. NASA sent humans to the moon. Bell Labs gave us the transistor. U.S. Steel basically built our modern civilization. Google found somewhat better ways of searching documents in return for selling advertising, plus rip-offs of Hotmail, MS Office, iOS, Facebook, etc.

>>Google found somewhat better ways of searching documents

And yes, that storing and searching the world's information on your finger tips is the biggest problem with regards to information distribution the world has faced so far.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by kamaal »

vacri wrote: post #473
krapp wrote: post #468

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Landing on the moon was only quite possibly the pinnacle moment in human technological and scientific achievement, and one of the watershed moments of civilization. Google took something that already existed and made it less of a hassle. Its an achievement not even in the same league.

'watershed moment of civilisation'? Really? What profound social changes happened because of the moon shot. Yes, technological achievement, I'm not disputing that. Did it end the cold war? Did it even make a dint on the Vietnam war? In terms of changes to civilisation, the moon shot pales in comparison to the civil rights movements of the same era, along with the end of colonialism. Besides, I like how you classify g…

Going the moon was big! Going to the mars will be big!

Google historically speaking will be similar to invention of the telephone directory.

>>What profound social changes happened because of the moon shot.

Beginning the process to eliminate the biggest single point of failure humans have today, The Earth!

Moon landings were the first steps to mankind expanding into space. If you don't think that's important, wait till the time a comet hits you.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by ludston »

scoot wrote: post #443
xj9 wrote: post #441

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I am seriously concerned about this. s/ I was in a long distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend-it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New Your. In retrospect it wasn't worth it. Whenever we would go on a walk or when he'd take me out to dinner, he always seem…

That was pretty shitty. You have no possible way to know what the opposite side of the coin was like, and your speculation adds nothing to the conversation; not least because you completely missed the point. Bravo.

Wouldn't it be better to respond constructively rather than insultingly?

Re: Google Glass

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Post by zpconn »

mnicole wrote: post #407
artursapek wrote: post #150

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Gaston: [tossing the book aside] Belle, it's about time you got your head out of those books and paid attention to more important things. Like me. The whole town's talking about it. It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting "ideas", and "thinking"- Did she really need to be looking at the homeless guy pissing in the alley? Was she going to have a formative moment in her life by watching a cab drive…

I don't think that quote is really relevant to any of this. This isn't about cutting off entire sources of information. Nobody is saying that it's not right for a person to use a smartphone or an iPad or Google Glass. They're just saying that there are certain situations where it is rude to do so. But there are countless situations where it is not.

To me and many others, a date is one of the situations where it's rude to be seeking out revelations on your cell phone. Presumably you'll have plenty of time later that night or the next day to look for revelations in the digital world.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by aerolite »

sgt wrote: post #366
artursapek wrote: post #150

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Downvoted - this is not HN material. Please go back to Reddit.

As a Redditor, this holier-than-thou attitude is offensive.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by yakiv »

dcaranda wrote: post #279

Any new sensors/hardware not on a typical smartphone? Is the big advantage essentially a pervasive screen? I ask because a common way to think of mobile app innovation is in terms of hardware advances: Mobile Data: Blackberry Email GPS: Maps, Local Services (Foursquare) iPhone 4 Camera Upgrade: Instagram The list goes on... What's the key hardware advancement here?

What's the difference between a smart phone and a laptop? A smart phone can go with you everywhere to a greater extent than a laptop can. I think that glass would push that farther.

Re: Google Glass

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Post by wavesounds »

artursapek wrote: post #150

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

I agree with your sentiment but I'm here to say that I think its going to be ok!

First I seriously doubt these are going to be 'cool' especially at $1500 a pop, its basically going to be the new 'blue tooth ear piece', yes it technologically is a useful advancement but anyone that really wears it around all the time is going to look like a total dork.

Second, people do not like being filmed! Nobody is going to want to talk to someone wearing a Go Pro. Try picking up a girl while pointing a camera in her face, you'll be the biggest creep ever.

Third, your girlfriend is still a kid, this is what kids do, im a few years older then you and let me tell you this is not something thats socially acceptable amongst adults, might as well not know how to brush your teeth. People that do this get tripped and then people laugh at them. Same with restaurants, a real women wont do this for more then a minute or two, this is kid stuff.

Fourth, Smartphones on the bus/couch is simply replacing TV and Newspapers/Magazines, which really is fine in my opinion. TV rots your brain, and being able to google something you just read and don't understand is a great benefit to society.

TLDR: Your girlfriend needs to grow up, Google glass is most likely going to be creepy and dorky if worn in public, Smartphones aren't inherently evil.

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