Google Glass Video Shows Off Translating, Directing, Photographing Alter-Brain
A challenge to the imagination. The next step.
A challenge to the imagination. The next step.
Google Glass Video Shows Off Translating, Directing, Photographing Alter-Brain
A challenge to the imagination. The next step.
I think something like this is the future. I don't think it is going to catch on right this minute. I think eventually there will be implanted devices. I think "Glass" is actually kind of cool.I still don't have a smartphone or an iPad, so the fact that I don't see Google Glass as that compelling should probably be taken as evidence that it may be the next big thing
Modern technology seems to be trying to give us more and more connectivity while since stopping work, I've been going in the other direction. I just don't want to be connected to others all of the time. It sounds annoying, but then I am an INTJ.
I'm completely with you on this. I am not by any means a technophobe, but I am a late adopter when it comes to technology. I purchase things only if they will have a definite utility to me. I used to own a cellphone (non-smart), then ditched it once I no longer had a need.I'm a walking, daily contradiction with these things. It is love and hate.
this sort of technology could become a very useful tool within a few years. Think about this as a sort of combination of:
* external memory - notes on where you've been, where you are, details on who or what are around you. Reminders on the run.
* Personal assistant/agent - Think of a Siri (Apple iPhone) sort of software added here.
Now apply this to our sort of daily problems:
* Where are my car keys?
* Where did I leave my car?
* Directions to the cheapest breakfast place within three blocks, please.
* Was this shirt cheaper at the other thrift store?
* Remind me to mail these letters when I get near the Post Office on the way to the store.
Beats covering myself in post-it notes...
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The dirty old man in me is looking forward to having stealthy camera at the beach
this sort of technology could become a very useful tool within a few years. Think about this as a sort of combination of:
* external memory - notes on where you've been, where you are, details on who or what are around you. Reminders on the run.
* Personal assistant/agent - Think of a Siri (Apple iPhone) sort of software added here.
Now apply this to our sort of daily problems:
* Where are my car keys?
* Where did I leave my car?
* Directions to the cheapest breakfast place within three blocks, please.
* Was this shirt cheaper at the other thrift store?
* Remind me to mail these letters when I get near the Post Office on the way to the store.
Beats covering myself in post-it notes...
Just imagine:
Every minute, every second of your life...tracked, saved, forever... from the viewpoint of your own eyes. Sound recorded the way your ears hear. Available to relive any point in time... waking, sleeping... forever.
Every bit of recorded knowledge... available with a few search words with a refined google, keyed in an advanced learning curve to your life's experience.
This video by Corning is another peek into the neartime future.
Part 1
A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011) - YouTube
Where your Google comfort zone ends
It'll be foolhardy to be as cavalier with tomorrow's Google as you might be with it today. I think some of those sci-fi possibilities I just described could be real within three to five years, so now is a good time to start thinking about where your Google comfort zone ends.
Me? I'm immersed in Google services, but I worry that handy new features will arrive in a steady stream of minor changes that are all but imperceptible until one day I wake up and realize that Google has access to everything that makes me who I am.
Google Now says it needs access to my calendar? Sounds useful. My Android phone needs to turn on my phone's microphone so the Google Maps app can judge by ambient noise whether I'm indoors or outdoors? Well, that'll help me get through the airport faster. My glasses need to identify the faces of people in my company so Google can deduce who gets consigned to the Google Voice answering machine and who gets through to my phone even at 3 a.m.? Well, I sure don't want to have to set all that up manually.
FIFYTo think that I already feel that I have lived in 2 worlds - the pre-internet age and now. I'm only 49 and I have a feeling our current technology will seem clunky and quaint [-]30[/-] 10 years from now.
A challenge to the imagination. The next step.
I agree. What's all the fuss about? A head mounted camera? Sure it can be linked to some back-end processing, but it sounds like flying car dreams to me. Maybe I'll be proven wrong.Sorry but I fail to see the advantage of using such glasses. Won't help me when seeing patients, for example.
I agree. What's all the fuss about? A head mounted camera? Sure it can be linked to some back-end processing, but it sounds like flying car dreams to me. Maybe I'll be proven wrong.
To the OP: I don't mean to dismiss posting and discussion on this, it's interesting to see what other people think is interesting. It opens my mind to things I might have missed. So thanks for posting.
-ERD50