<p>Sometimes I feel like the Red Queen, running to keep up with the present technology. The first I heard of Google Glass was the recent TED talk by a Google co-founder. They’re promoting these eyeglass computers as a revolutionary technology- more ‘human’ than using a smartphone. As someone who routinely breaks eyeglasses, including countless sacrifices to a mischievous spec-chewing pooch, I can’t imagine plunking down $1500 for a pair. Would you wear them?</p>
<p>I would not wear them. They remind me of the Denzel Washington movie Deja Vu, in which he’s driving a car in downtown New Orleans with a pair of glasses that let him look into the future. So he’s driving in the present with one eye and in the future with the other. My brain is too old for that stuff.</p>
<p>Edit: is it the future or the past? I can’t remember, but it’s a good movie and the Google glasses made me think of it immediately.</p>
<p>I’m giving thumbs down to this idea too. I think it will go the way of the Segway- a niche market for the status conscious with a few useful applications.</p>
<p>Now Google’s self-driving car is something I can get excited about. Anyone trying to wrestle the keys from their aging parent should see the potential in that concept.</p>
<p>I try to follow the philosophy of Ram Dass. " Be here now".
Not do too many things at once.</p>
<p>What I * would like * someone to work on, is voice recognition.
Siri isnt bad, although Ive found I need to use British English instead of American, for some reason, even though everyone says I sound fine. ( I have a “northwest” accent, but occasionally someone thinks I am European)</p>
<p>But I often have trouble with business software. One reason why we don’t have a landline anymore is because the phone company software didnt give an option to speak to a person or key in my response. It just snarked " sorry you’re having trouble", and disconnected me!
:mad:</p>
<p>emeraldkity, I’ve found when I have frustrations with voice menus that just mashing zero a bunch of times will get me to an operator. There’s only been a few times it disconnected me for that. ;)</p>
<p>I’d be down with Google Glass if I could have them easily put onto my glasses I already wear every day, and there’d be a way of having it stay on all the time without it actually letting me know it was monitoring everything I was doing. Like, just having nothing there, but when I say, “What’s the weather?” I’ll just pop up for a few seconds on my HUD. Or maybe I’d say, “Do I need to make a right or left turn here?” and it’ll tell me.</p>
<p>I know - that is what I usually do when I get tired of the recorded message advising me I can check my acct online. No. Duh.
But for some reason the customer service # didnt have that option.
Most do or else you can do a web search to find an alternative customer service number that is answered by a real live person, even if they * are in Pondicherry*.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t, but I don’t own a smartphone. Sometimes I think one would be useful (and I’ll admit that the main reason I don’t have one now is economic priorities and the cost of data plans) but I also think it’s healthier for me to not be plugged in 24-7. I spend a lot of time around my laptop at home and all day on the computer at work. I really don’t need to be online while I’m waiting for the bus or shopping as well.</p>
<p>seriously. ^^^^^^
I have a smartphone and I love it, but I am finding I am leaving it home 1/2 the time when I am out & about, so I am not as distracted.</p>
<p>I considered submitting an application (I’ve made about $10K in GOOG stock in the last couple of weeks), so the cost of the device wouldn’t be a big deal but I have some concerns about radiation and it might make a lot of people uncomfortable to know that there was a camera and recording device pointed at them.</p>
<p>Lets see. A live feed of everything I do. I suppose in 50 years this will be required in ( and yes , i mean implant) all citizens for our own safety. </p>
<p>It is awesomely cool. Without a doubt I’d either break mine or get a virus in them almost immediately.</p>
<p>They did a segment on local news in which people tried them out. NOT good. One man walked straight into a utility pole. A woman stepped over a gaping hole in a sidewalk but misjudged the distance and fell splat into it, hurting herself.</p>
<p>I don’t know if they really wreck your depth perception or whether people just got distracted.</p>
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^^^^^^