Glass - the dumbest idea on Planet Earth. Keep talking, Sergei, but these are still going to be a big flop. Why? Because people don't want to wear glasses! We spend thousands of dollars on laser eye surgery and contact lenses to avoid wearing something that Google now wants everyone to wear?
Ridiculous. He just wants to sell his creepy stalker spectacles. These are some of the places where wearing google glass is emasculating because they won't let you in, or even let you hang around outside for fear that you are photographing/videoing/surveilling/casing the joint: Military bases, federal agencies, banks, concert halls, moviehouses and theatres, health clubs, sports arenas, airliners, museums, jewellers, national monuments, powerplants, water filtration plants, armaments factories, border crossings, airports, and most important of all, my house. I'm sure not talking to anyone who's wearing those creepy stalker glasses. And I'm certainly going to pull my daughter away if you talk to her with your creepy stalker glasses on.
Only a geek with severely impaired social skills would think that this product would be acceptable for use in your day-to-day business. If you're going to wear this all day long, you might as well put an "I'm creepy" sign on your forehead.
This is going to be a major flop because nobody wants to be around some guy who just might be taking pictures or videos of you.
If these appear to be popular once released, I wonder how long before we'll have the new Samsung Glass?
I would also find it more disconcerting if someone is using these and you think they're looking at you, but really not (much like people using BT earbuds whom you think are talking to you and aren't) as compared to looking down at their smartphone (or possibly a wrist-mounted device). I don't think Google Glass(es) will solve our interactivity "problem", but just change it, possibly making it even more awkward.
I personally thank the smartphone for allowing me to interact less with people, but I've always been anti-social.
What about us people who wear prescription glasses? Oh right, we're not cool anyway. There is an antisocial aspect to smart phones, but creepy glasses aren't the solution.
Innovation without disruption is novelty, not innovation. Google's Glass and Pixel are gimmicks, not products. Pure puerile posturing. When Apple produced the iPhone and iPad, it manned up with real live CE products that uprooted multiple market sectors. Google's prices tell it all: Even Google does not believe its toys are tools.
Meanwhile Google's completely asleep at the switch, and Samsung is milking Android for all its worth. And it's using those billions to build its own brand at Google's expense. Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind? Google has a tiger by the tail. It's a highly unstable relationship, more so than the Apple and Samsung competition, which is pretty well sorted out. And both Google and Samsung are proven to be duplicitous. Remember the iPhone.
Five years from now, the mobile market will include Apple, Samsung, and Google, in that order. And that's on a good day. Without its own hardware to compete with Samsung, Google will end up like Adobe, begging to get on other hardware platforms. Larry and Sergey better stop reading their own publicity notices and get on with the hard work of business.
Am I the only one that thinks those glasses look massively stupid? If I want to wear glasses I go to a designer house to buy some, not some nerd-looking Bluetooth-alike headset that seems to have a AAA battery attached to it.
I don't think that even the finished product will look fashionable, just incredibly stupid. Also, a good way to know about the stuff your looking at: ask.
BTW, if you care about fashion and not looking like and idiot, this is why you don't wear anything wireless/Bluetooth unless you're driving--and still.
"The cell phone is a nervous habit," Brin explained. "If I smoked, I'd probably smoke instead, it'd look cooler. But I whip this out and look as if I have something important to do."
This line is true for sure. I see it all the time.
Mate, if someone comes into a public toilet wearing a pair of those Google Glass things, they are going head first into the urinal because of the constantly filming camera.
I saw someone walked into a busy washroom at the ski hill the other weekend wearing a go-pro. I've never seen someone get so many simultaneous stink-eyes.
Meanwhile Google's completely asleep at the switch, and Samsung is milking Android for all its worth. And it's using those billions to build its own brand at Google's expense. Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind? Google has a tiger by the tail. It's a highly unstable relationship, more so than the Apple and Samsung competition, which is pretty well sorted out. And both Google and Samsung are proven to be duplicitous. Remember the iPhone.
Anecdotally, from what I've seen, "Galaxy" has overtaken "Android" as a brand big time. Samsung has a lot of choices if they want to ditch Google - FirefoxOS, Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch are all coming along well, not to mention that Samsung is working on Tizen. Tizen has the holy grail Samsung needs to ditch Android - the capability to run unmodified Android apps.
Look at the industrialization of food and the way industry tried, and succeeded, in re-programming housewives and people in general back in the 50s and on...
Ahh yes... the good old days...
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I saw someone walked into a busy washroom at the ski hill the other weekend wearing a go-pro. I've never seen someone get so many simultaneousstink-eyes.
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That will be the day that I unplug.
OMG seriously? Toe shoes in public? The guy is an even bigger tool than I ever thought.
I agree - although this says it best:
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Originally Posted by tundraboy
This is going to be a major flop because nobody wants to be around some guy who just might be taking pictures or videos of you.
Paedos will love these glasses.
Originally Posted by mstone
Why is the father of the cell phone holding a Samsung Galaxy S IV?
If these appear to be popular once released, I wonder how long before we'll have the new Samsung Glass?
I would also find it more disconcerting if someone is using these and you think they're looking at you, but really not (much like people using BT earbuds whom you think are talking to you and aren't) as compared to looking down at their smartphone (or possibly a wrist-mounted device). I don't think Google Glass(es) will solve our interactivity "problem", but just change it, possibly making it even more awkward.
I personally thank the smartphone for allowing me to interact less with people, but I've always been anti-social.
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Originally Posted by WelshDog
Paedos will love these glasses.
I read somewhere that taking pictures at kids football (soccer) games is a no-no in the UK because of paedo fears.
Around the US there are dslrs around the neck of half the parents and the other half has a phone...
Meanwhile Google's completely asleep at the switch, and Samsung is milking Android for all its worth. And it's using those billions to build its own brand at Google's expense. Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind? Google has a tiger by the tail. It's a highly unstable relationship, more so than the Apple and Samsung competition, which is pretty well sorted out. And both Google and Samsung are proven to be duplicitous. Remember the iPhone.
Five years from now, the mobile market will include Apple, Samsung, and Google, in that order. And that's on a good day. Without its own hardware to compete with Samsung, Google will end up like Adobe, begging to get on other hardware platforms. Larry and Sergey better stop reading their own publicity notices and get on with the hard work of business.
Now I see why Google thinks we need cars to drive themselves! Amazing Googles stock goes up when these are their visionary ideas!
Someone will be hurt by both of Googles "Visionary" ideas and then the stock will be "Free Falling!"
Personal Injury Lawyers start your engines!
Google, Microsoft, etc. dream up things I never wanted, Apple dreams up things I never knew I wanted!
they're desperately trying to sell this idiotic gadget as a mainstream device. ain't gonna happen.
Am I the only one that thinks those glasses look massively stupid? If I want to wear glasses I go to a designer house to buy some, not some nerd-looking Bluetooth-alike headset that seems to have a AAA battery attached to it.
I don't think that even the finished product will look fashionable, just incredibly stupid. Also, a good way to know about the stuff your looking at: ask.
BTW, if you care about fashion and not looking like and idiot, this is why you don't wear anything wireless/Bluetooth unless you're driving--and still.
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
"The cell phone is a nervous habit," Brin explained. "If I smoked, I'd probably smoke instead, it'd look cooler. But I whip this out and look as if I have something important to do."
This line is true for sure. I see it all the time.
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Originally Posted by hill60
Mate, if someone comes into a public toilet wearing a pair of those Google Glass things, they are going head first into the urinal because of the constantly filming camera.
I saw someone walked into a busy washroom at the ski hill the other weekend wearing a go-pro. I've never seen someone get so many simultaneous stink-eyes.
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Originally Posted by Stef
Meanwhile Google's completely asleep at the switch, and Samsung is milking Android for all its worth. And it's using those billions to build its own brand at Google's expense. Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind? Google has a tiger by the tail. It's a highly unstable relationship, more so than the Apple and Samsung competition, which is pretty well sorted out. And both Google and Samsung are proven to be duplicitous. Remember the iPhone.
Anecdotally, from what I've seen, "Galaxy" has overtaken "Android" as a brand big time. Samsung has a lot of choices if they want to ditch Google - FirefoxOS, Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch are all coming along well, not to mention that Samsung is working on Tizen. Tizen has the holy grail Samsung needs to ditch Android - the capability to run unmodified Android apps.
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Originally Posted by dysamoria
Look at the industrialization of food and the way industry tried, and succeeded, in re-programming housewives and people in general back in the 50s and on...
Ahh yes... the good old days...
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Originally Posted by bluefish86
I saw someone walked into a busy washroom at the ski hill the other weekend wearing a go-pro. I've never seen someone get so many simultaneous stink-eyes.
uhh......
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