Google Glass
Remember when Tom Cruise is walking down the hall of advertisements that recognize who you are by scanning your eyes and personalize their messages accordingly?
Google Glass might go on sale for about $300, when it finally becomes available to the public at large. That's according to a researcher at a market research firm in Taiwan, who has put his name behind the figure at a seminar.
If you're not a fan of so-called "Glassholes," prepare to be annoyed, but if you're a friend of a Google Glass Explorer, start being really nice to them.
Google Glass may be taking some steps towards expanding its range of applications soon. Google has begun encouraging app developers who are currently waiting for the development kit that's specific to Glass to go ahead and start making the apps for Android.
A lot of people are excited about Google Glass and the possibilities it may open up for the future of wearable computing. But not everyone, and a few venture capitalists at the Wearable Tech Expo in New York are among the sceptics.
Google has made a business investment that quite unsubtly hints at the next move for its wearable computing device, Google Glass. Himax Technologies, Inc. announced Monday that Google has invested in one of its subsidiaries, which specialize in producing chips head mounted displays.
As we get more wearable computing devices and an "internet of things," which all interact with each other, expect hacking to take on a new form, and significance. That's what the company that hacked Google Glass with a QR code believes.
Google recently updated its Google Glass Explorer Edition, and some new feautres look to be in the works for the wearable computing glasses, including a "Boutique" app store, a Google lock screen, and a media player.
As the computer market continues its downward spiral, thanks in part to the rise of tablets and other mobile devices, no PC maker has been a better example of the new hard-luck paradigm than Dell. But the computer manufacturer is hoping to jump start its own recovery, by betting on the new, but untested wearable computing market.
NBA: New Orlando Magic Draft Pick Victor Oladipo Debuts Google Glass On Draft Night
In a few years' time, so many people might be walking around with smartglasses that you might wonder what all the fuss was about over Google Glass. According to a new study, Google Glass is poised to take over Americans' faces, and a sizable number of them are ready and willing.
It turns out that Americans aren't the only ones nervous about the privacy implications raised by Google's new experimental wearable smartphone technology, Google Glass. A letter from ten government privacy officials, representing seven governments around the world, has been sent to Google expressing their concerns about the new device.
Over the past few months, a lot of aspects of Google Glass have creeped people out, mostly inadvertently, though sometimes by the very nature of the smart eyewear device. Of the creepier features of Google Glass, the possibility of facial recognition was paramount. On Monday, Google updated its developers policy for Google Glass, and the biggest news was that it would not allow facial recognition apps. But there was another ban in place, which almost everyone overlooked: No sexually explicit material.
Responding to privacy concerns that have been raised ever since the new devices were released in a limited run, Google has said there will not by any facial-recognition apps for its new Google Glass device. At least right now.
Poor Google Glass. The revolutionary device hasn't even made it past its invite-only limited trial, and it's already being lampooned on Saturday Night Live, preemptively banned in public places, and questioned by members of Congress. But there are good reasons for the consternation and mockery, and the news that MiKandi and other pornography sites are looking to create porn and porn apps for Glass just adds one more reason to the pile. Here are some of those reasons why Google Glass is getting creepy already.
