What if Trayvon Martin was wearing Google Glasses?
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Re: What if Trayvon Martin was wearing Google Glasses?
#2You could kind of do this with a phone. Hit an emergency button and it starts discretely recording audio remotely. It wouldn't be overt, but you'd get a lot of evidence.
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#3Isn't wearing Google Glasses reason enough to get shot?
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#4This is rather disconnected from the established facts of the case.
I'll just point out the most obvious one that is totally indisputable: about the same time Trayvon might have started the suggested process that would include calling 911, Zimmerman called the police on their non-emergency number (NEN) and got them dispatched to the location.
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#5This is rather disconnected from the established facts of the case. I'll just point out the most obvious one that is totally indisputable: about the same time Trayvon might have started the suggested process that would include calling 911, Zimmerman called the police on their non-emergency number (NEN) and got them dispatched to the location.
My main point would be that each party involved in the situation would be more careful on how they react. How would Zimmerman approach Martin if a police officer was standing there? The Google Glass would be evidence as if an officer or court room was standing there at that moment.
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#6You could kind of do this with a phone. Hit an emergency button and it starts discretely recording audio remotely. It wouldn't be overt, but you'd get a lot of evidence.
I agree, but the presence of video could deter many actions from taking place.
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#7This is rather disconnected from the established facts of the case. I'll just point out the most obvious one that is totally indisputable: about the same time Trayvon might have started the suggested process that would include calling 911, Zimmerman called the police on their non-emergency number (NEN) and got them dispatched to the location.
My main point would be that each party involved in the situation would be more careful on how they react. How would Zimmerman approach Martin if a police officer was standing there? The Google Glass would be evidence as if an officer or court room was standing there at that moment.
If you were even vaguely familiar with the case and/or fair minded---after all, the jury validated to some degree the following---you would know that according to Zimmerman he never "approached" Martin in any sense of the word that I'm familiar with.
Let's put it this way: you're implicitly asking to know the truth of the incident; I suggest you don't ask unless you're willing to face the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The investigating officer testified at the trial that when he lied to Zimmerman and told him a video had been found of the entire incident, he looked relieved and said "Thank God." Assuming that someone with a documented history of fighting like Martin would want the truth to be available for the authorities is ... a bit further than I'm willing to go, and there fails your concept ... well, unless you put the pair of glasses on Zimmerman.
I'll bet you more than a few Neighborhood Watch types are going to start using Google glasses when they become generally available.
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#8I'd rather be wearing an Iron Man suit that works and open a can of Whoop-Ass on 'em myself.
The question is: what is the MVP?
Re: What if Trayvon Martin was wearing Google Glasses?
#9It would just give the defense even more evidence. The decision was about whether or not Zimmerman shot him in self-defense, NOT whether or not Zimmerman was responsible for creating the situation that resulted in Trayvon Martin being shot.
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#10I'd rather be wearing an Iron Man suit that works and open a can of Whoop-Ass on 'em myself. The question is: what is the MVP?
If this is a serious question I've got ideas, and I strongly recommend reading a particular slow glass story by Bob Shaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light#Slow_light_in_fictio...). This last one I remember, as he worked through the possibilities, entails the authorities spreading very small spheres of slow glass in public places. If an incident occurred, they'd just vacuum up some of them and wait for the light to get through and see what happened.
Which brings me to my first point: passive always on is nice, unless of course you are the criminal, but expensive in battery power for which there is no Moore's law. Given that, it should take very little to get it going, which isn't necessarily compatible with the MVP of a smartphone app capturing sound.