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Hilarious, but sadly what I would expect !
This is a really dumb idea. People are already to distracted. People walk into poles looking at their phones. Dvorak has this right on his PCMag column, you don’t need this thing to tell you about your world, when you can see it for yourself.
I look forward to it! I want information instantly and about everything around me.
* Want to look at a house for sale and see instantly how much it is and what the taxes were.
* Want to see people on the street, do a facial scan and see their public profile.
* Want to travel to a foreign country and have all the signs translated to English in real time.
* Want to record everything I see and everywhere I’ve been forever and then sell my amazing life story to you for a handsome profit!
It is all too sexy, just what I need more technology to fail, track, open more doors to cyber criminals, hacker, trackers, and everyone else.
Likde watching a hipster dump a bowl of sugar on an iced cake.
Why?
The Damn thing sees everything you see, all security out the window, maybe helpful at a museum for info, seems dangerous while walking. Still the concept reminds me of The Minority Report, kinda cool.
“If you see something, say something.”
Scarey
What the hell am I watching here? Looks like more hipster adds for more cyborg strap-ons!
Hello Nike! When are you going to put computers in your shoes? I mean, don’t people want to know how many steps they take with each foot? Maybe some people could use it to count their toes too! (Makes about as much sense as electronically tethering one’s self to a cell phone.)
If Nike did that I would wear a Nike shoe on my left foot and another brand on the right foot…maybe start a new trend. After a while it would appear that more people had ‘two left feet’ than originally thought.
As a Mac user for the past decade, it reminded how ugly Windows user interface is… Yuck! LOL
At what point do we move beyond the “Windows always crashes” joke? Both Windows XP and especially Windows 7 are as stable if not more so than MacOS X. Time to move on, its an old, tired, and inaccurate joke.
I use Windows 7 and every Windows (and DOS) version since 1983. Windows still sucks ass.
Sucks compared to?
Agreed, sick and tired of the OS wars on blogs.
You may find this video of how this i-thingy scared a chameleon.
http://youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6FWUjJF1ai0
That video is BS
My Windows 7 laptop hasn’t crashed to me, not even once. And I never shut it down, always in standby when I am done using it.
And it’s the same for all my other Windows machines.
16 bit OSes cooperative multitasking and DLL hell are over, get used to it.
Yep they got it right! ROFL
Hilarious!
Ah, the mac force is strong here Pedro. All hail the i
Meanwhile. In the quest for all things Apple.
http://wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/five-charged-teen-kidney/
First, no consumer grade GPS is that accurate (“402 ft”?). Military maybe, but not civilian. So it’s not going to be able to tell you how to navigate in a store, based on where you’re standing. And have any idea of the shelf layout. Those things change around, once a year, on average. So how would a Google database know what it is, or where you were standing?
Second, it recognized a vendor’s wagon (“Mud Truck”) by name. So what’s this thing supposed to have, OCR software? That works at any angle, and any font? Oh sure it will (not). Not to mention all the other real world things it’s picking up on, to trigger weather and travel route reports. That are closer to AI software complexity. And decades into the future, if ever.
This would only work by streaming live video (and maybe audio too) into some cloud based system. That did all the real world image recognition, at cutting edge speed. Like some kind of massive super computer farm, the DoD and NSA only wishes it had. And where did Google get the idea? I’ll bet from watching CBS Tv’s “Person of Interest”. Which is also just fiction. But it wouldn’t surprise me that some people believe it’s all possible.
There were people who believe “Gilligan’s Island” was real, back in the 1960s. And complained to the government about the castaways not being rescued. Some how, the show’s laugh track wasn’t a clue to them, that it WASN’T real. It’s amazing what people can ignore. And you CAN’T tell them anything, because they believe their imagination is more real than simple facts or logic.
Like…. why would a UFO travel trillions of miles, just to hover in the night sky, and then leave? And yet Steven Hawkings even says he believes in them. Some genius. He should man up, and refute all this nonsense. Instead of exploiting crapola theories, to sell more books. So many “experts” are just propaganda tools.
Just what the douchy hipster crowd is clamoring for.
Given the quick amount of parodies already out there, it sure stimulates the fantasy of many. Still waiting for one of someone wearing the glasses while having sex.
I can imagine that video already going multiple ways 🙂
This is certainly encouraging me to never buy glasses running anything from Microsoft!
No, I am not an Apple enthusiast. I have never had and suspect I will never hav an iPhone. I did like the iPod Touch that one of my kids once had.
Microsoft cannot design a decent interface and even when they do start with something simple and clean like Windows 95, they soon clutter it up as does everyone who writes for it.
Windows8 really rams that home.
Wnen this sort of thing becomes mainstream and affordable to me, I do think I would like this. I just want it to work with the glasses I already have.