What are the QR codes used for?
I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
Google Glass Teardown
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#32You just open sourced Google's IP related to Hardware Design of Glass. Now just waiting for cheap knockoff's from China flooding the Walmart's of the world or flooding eBay catalogs.
Hardware is going to be easy to copy. Google services (search, maps, etc)? Good luck to the imitators.
They could just use the software that is on Glass now. If the hardware is exactly the same it could work.
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#33What are the QR codes used for? I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
Most likely for tracking parts during production.
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#34It uses an old OMAP4430, also in the Samsung Galaxy 2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4
As chips get faster, wearable computing will benefit more than smartphones, because (eg) an iPhone 5 is more powerful than a smartphone can utilize (and more powerful than even a desktop needs to be, for most mainstream tasks.)
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#35In public surveillance terms, this is basically the equivalent of gluing your camera to your temple. The Snowcrash quote is pertinent. Glassholes will be excluded from free spaces.
I don't get why glass is so different from ubiquitous smart phone cameras or (in the UK) CCTV.
Parents already have problems taking photographs of their children at school events[1] and people are regularly harassed and arrested because they are taking photographs in public. Most people seem to think this is too extreme, but I get the impression that they wouldn't mind if it was happening to glass users.
As far as public surveillance goes there are much worse situations than actual people wearing (currently) expensive hardware wandering around. It's cheaper and better to mount CCTV everywhere; and it's good for the operators to have hidden[2] low[3] level cameras.
[1] Although I agree with Louis CK about this - don't video the kids, watch them. The resolution on the kid is much better than on that little phone screen.
[2] To avoid vandalism.
[3] Face height, not on a tall pole.
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#36In public surveillance terms, this is basically the equivalent of gluing your camera to your temple. The Snowcrash quote is pertinent. Glassholes will be excluded from free spaces.
I don't get why glass is so different from ubiquitous smart phone cameras or (in the UK) CCTV. Parents already have problems taking photographs of their children at school events[1] and people are regularly harassed and arrested because they are taking photographs in public. Most people seem to think this is too extreme, but I get the impression that they wouldn't mind if it was happening to glass users. As far as pu…
One stays in your pocket.
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#37What are the QR codes used for? I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
As a complete guess: Much electronics manufacturing requires items to have individual (or batch) numbers for quality control.
When items fail test you can investigate the batch to find and eliminate problems of manufacture.
Sometimes this is good and effective and it works. You see that batch #3762387 failed, and that they all used a component from a delivery, so you look at the other batches using that component and they fail too.
Sometimes, however, it's just a paperwork exercise. It's frustrating for everyone trying to do the work, and the results are hopeless for anything because people are just faking the paperwork, or the paperwork is garbage. The company is only doing all of this to get a logo for their letterhead, and they must have that logo to do business with some other companies.
In the UK some of these systems (ISO900x; BS5750; etc) are sometimes seen as expensive makework nonsense.
Let me know if you ever need to find flaws in someone's paperwork because there are a few things where it's trivially easy to trip them up once you know what to look for.
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#38What are the QR codes used for? I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
As a complete guess: Much electronics manufacturing requires items to have individual (or batch) numbers for quality control. When items fail test you can investigate the batch to find and eliminate problems of manufacture. Sometimes this is good and effective and it works. You see that batch #3762387 failed, and that they all used a component from a delivery, so you look at the other batches using that component and…
The quality control and tracking reasons makes sense. It would allow for faster and more automated identifying of parts.
"Let me know if you ever need to find flaws in someone's paperwork because there are a few things where it's trivially easy to trip them up once you know what to look for."
I'm interested in this, can you give some more details?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes it already has inbuilt GPS unit. Source: I own one
Then why does it need the MyGlass app running for GPS?
Probably for AGPS and a better positioning using both GPS chips and other positioning sensors (cell towers, wifi). The Glass GPS antenna is tiny, it can take ages to synchronize without aid.
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#40It uses an old OMAP4430, also in the Samsung Galaxy 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4 As chips get faster, wearable computing will benefit more than smartphones, because (eg) an iPhone 5 is more powerful than a smartphone can utilize (and more powerful than even a desktop needs to be, for most mainstream tasks.)
The chip is taken from the specs, you cannot see it in the photos.