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I just want to lay on the beach this vacations, but my cellphone doesn't stop to ring, I'm attached to my job with my cellphone, and if I turn it off, it's just rude. This glasses are a real nightmare for me.
Why would the largest advertising company in the world want to place a screen between my eyeballs and reality?
* Guy wakes up, puts on glasses. They immediately tell him what brand of breakfast he should be eating today.
* When he looks at the window to see the weather, buildings and places are censored, and advertisements are replaced with google ads, yet he doesn't care
* During the text message with his friend, after he says "Strand books", Google suggests Chapters or Noble or another "featured" store, and he has to opt out of the text replacement.
* When the Subway is out, advertisements for cab companies come up on his "screen". He must opt out of them to get the walking route. Google begins caching the advertisements he will be seeing during the rout superimposed on the scenery.
* The board of posters he steps up to is blurred out and is instead a different, large "pop" label, not some indie band.
* In the book store, Google quotes lower prices for each book at "Google Books" and offers free shipping.
* The picture he takes at the end has a superimposed image of "Sponsored by Google!"
* It ends with the sunset having a superimposed text advertisement for vacations.
The design is more stylish than I expected.
What this will provide for disabled and autistic people is amazing. It's too easy to get caught up in the "social sharing" part of this and forget that something like this can really help change people's lives. Edit: To expand a bit, take an autistic adult that wants to do something, like go to the movies. It's simple for us, we wash up, get dressed, go outside, go down the straight, hope on the 132 Bus for 3 stops,…
I don't work with these types of people, so I might sound ignorant here, but it seems like glasses like these could add a lot of "noise" to the world of an autistic or disabled adult.
Yes, the constant interruptions wouldn't be good, but that doesn't mean we couldn't build something for them using that same technology.
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"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." ;) http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
Cute winky face, but you completely miss my point. I'm not saying this is "lame," I'm saying most people won't want to wear pixels on their face. Even the most successful products get criticism, especially in the beginning.
I'm not sure which way it'll go, but I can imagine that happening.