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Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by paganel »

randallsquared wrote: post #89
pezz wrote: post #45

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If you can't see the difference between someone holding a largish device (say, a phone), point it at you and record a video (hence, obviously snooping) versus same said person closing their eyes, pretending they're sleeping, having their head tilted in your direction and recording a video... Then yeah, I guess you're the kind of creep this product might appeal to.

Actually, what I want is everything logged that I could have seen or heard, had I been paying attention. I want to be trying to remember what someone said to me while I was distracted by a road sign, and be able to pull up audio or video of that moment by reference to the distracting sign ("triangular blue sign") by doing a video search via voice input. I want to have every moment of every day in my life available vi…

> I don't want to forget things. Ever. Again.

Not strictly technology-related, but certainly human related, you might want to read Albert Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past". You might develop a new perspective on "remembering things" and memory after reading the book, a perspective not limited to technology or fancy gadgets but instead one that touches on our very essence as human beings.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by pook1e »

ocean12 wrote: post #99
estel wrote: post #5

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And despite their supply problems, the Nexus 4/7 are top quality products.

No, the 4 suffers from horrendous battery life and it's camera is very 2010.

Weird, I must be imagining the 16+ hours of battery life I've been getting nearly daily for the past 3 and a half months.

I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by psbp »

ocean12 wrote: post #98
ocean12 wrote: post #63

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No, I don't.

Exactly my point.

The Nexus branding is much more visible than the Asus one. It's over 2x as large and centered directly in your line of sight as you're holding the tablet. You can't seriously think that people would look at the branding and think that it places more importance on the manufacturer than it does the nexus brand name.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by riggins »

campnic wrote: post #109
riggins wrote: post #41

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People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. that's a strawman. The primary claim is that Google's implementation is lame. The primary claim in not that 'Glass-type' hardware is lame.

The entire article doesn't contain compelling support for the argument you say he is making. Its a bunch of hand waving about how google gets bored after the engineering. That may be so, but he provides no tactile examples of how this is the case. I can see your point about how he's attempting to argue the implementation is lame, but its also easy to construe his argument as 'glass-type' hardware is lame. This is an…

agree to disagree.

I started to extract and quote the parts of the article saying the problem is Google's implementation but it was close to being the entire article.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by egeekuk »

pezz wrote: post #100
randallsquared wrote: post #89

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Actually, what I want is everything logged that I could have seen or heard, had I been paying attention. I want to be trying to remember what someone said to me while I was distracted by a road sign, and be able to pull up audio or video of that moment by reference to the distracting sign ("triangular blue sign") by doing a video search via voice input. I want to have every moment of every day in my life available vi…

* Most of your life is not fun * The good times are real easy to remember * Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't * Pointless debates are some of the most hilarious conversations you can have * Technology will get better * You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant

Unfortunately some of us have terrible memories, and are really important events, such first memories with our children are fading only a few years later.

Having technology that captures this automatically for me is huge! I'd love to have it recording all the time, and to spend a little time each day highlighting the fun bits.

Time with my kids is precious to me, its fun, its good, and I'm sure that both me and them will want to remember them. Having a crap memory sucks, having a piece of technology to do it for me is worth every penny.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by [deleted] »

riggins wrote: post #41
kevinconroy wrote: post #11

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Who would want to carry around a phone with them all the time? And one that large? It'll never catch on! Some folks said the same thing about the iPad. Who needs a tablet when I've got a laptop and a smartphone? What strikes me is that this person is lambasting a product that he hasn't tried first hand. He hasn't lived with it fo…

People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. that's a strawman. The primary claim is that Google's implementation is lame. The primary claim in not that 'Glass-type' hardware is lame.

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Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by levesque »

ohwp wrote: post #71
levesque wrote: post #51

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Asus makes the Nexus 7, so it's not entirely a Google product.

Foxconn makes the iPad, iPhone and iPod. So they are not entirely Apple products..?

Yeah, it is exactly the same thing. It's a pleasure argueing with you.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by Shooti »

calinet6 wrote: post #28
weego wrote: post #18

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Making eye contact is the most important part of in-person social interaction, it gives a number of passive and active clues as to the persons intent and emotions. As neither of us have had any interaction with someone wearing Glass we are both hypothesising, yet I would suggest the number 1 goal was to allow maintaining eye contact when wearing it, and then there were probably some constraints that lead the rest of…

Absolutely correct, that one interaction is not the definition of a product. But it does greatly affect it. Even talking on the phone has this element of distraction to it—my dad notices this especially. If I start messing around on the computer in the middle of a phone conversation, he can tell immediately and starts asking me what I'm doing on the computer. Good conversation starter, but it didn't help that I was d…

The UI Overview Slashgear wrote up via a leaker(http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-in-focus-ui-apps-more-...) says that the swipe down gesture on the touchpad takes you up a level within the UI, and swiping down at the topmost level turns off the screen completely.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by netcan »

canttestthis wrote: post #33
blowski wrote: post #17

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Yep, post could be summarised as: "I currently don't want one. Therefore, nobody will ever want one. Anybody that says they do want one is a fanboy."

Agreed. Much of the post is subjective or flat out untrue. "Puke. I find Glass to be ugly, impractical and completely ridiculous." And I find Glass to be elegant, useful, and futuristic. So where does that leave us? And then this: "they simply don't know what it means to make products that make people happy." Are you serious?

Certainty in the reverse direction (Google Glass will change the world!) is just as silly, though maybe a little less curmudgeony.

Reality is that our first impression of a new technology is pretty much a coolness measure. Some things look cool and everyone who sees it wants it but are not ultimately useful or impactful (eg segway). Its really hard to tell how important some new technology is.

Re: Google Glass is Ridiculous

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Post by gushie »

Regarding Google losing interest once it's gone to Engineering. Perhaps that's the idea? Google just wants the advertising revenue from the searches. They will probably be more than happy for Asus/Samsung/HTC to come along and do Glass (or whatever) better/cheaper, just hoping they'll stick with Google as the engine. I think Google's aim with the Nexus and other products is just to keep some competition out there so folk don't all flock to Apple/Siri.
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