Does âpunch the glassholesâ count as a new rule of decorum?
what about punching people who call people âglassholesâ?
I tried it over the Xmas holiday, and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Yeah yeah yeah, âit has potentialâ and âit has a long way to goâ but I thought it was inherently lame. I will not be an early or even on-time adopter of this one. My smart phone works better at doing what the glass seeks to do better, but fails miserably at, ie, everything.
I think Google is missing out on some great cross promotional opportunities. Some sort of package deal that includes the glasses, a segway, and maybe a fanny pack. They could call it âThe Self Important Techno-Douche Trifectaâ.
Iâve yet to see anyone wearing Google glass in the wild yet, but when I do Iâll immediately know that the person wearing them is the least interesting person in the room.
Why does everyone hate glass so much? Itâs just a tool like any other one.
The Glassâs advantage is pissing off a significant fraction of self-important bores. They are so comical in their impotent rrrrraaaaaage!
The disadvantages are numerous; itâs just a wearable display with all its limits and lack of potential. It is costly. It is not a full-scale augmented reality.
Count me in with CastAR or something equivalent.
Perhaps someday searching for the term Borg Mullet will lead to Glass photos rather than Bjorn BorgâŚ
Itâs a tool, yes, but itâs a lame tool, like a Slap Chop. Not all tools are inherently good, well designed, or particularly useful. Some tools are marketed specifically at suckers, when other existing tools are better suited, more versatile and less expensive.
My biggest issue with google glass is simply that it looks stupid. Put some lenses in those glasses and they immediately stop looking so insanely dumb. Itâs like someone thought: âbluetooth earpieces donât really make one look like a douche anymore. What else can we doâŚ?â
I thought this thread was called the Corning era of Glass.
My issue isnât how it looks, itâs the inevitable whining when the owners are asked to remove their non-prescription lens fashion statement.
Or, worse, when actual poorly-sighted begin to get them embedded.
would âpiles of shitâ work?
I thought it said âThe coming of Ira Glassâ.
itâs a tool that really integrates ostensibly neutral tech into a constant real-time surveillance device. i wish that were hyperbole. i know there are cams everywhere in chicago and london, but this is something that the wearer is personally doing to cause harm to others. itâs not ok.
Lolwut? The reason glass is revolutionary isnât because of the camera, itâs because itâs a HUD. Do you honestly believe people are excited about glass because they want to âcause harm to othersâ? If I had a set, Iâd probably paint over the camera just so people would stop freaking out and let me be a cyborg in peace.
Yeah, I think the reason people think the latest wearable technologies are weird or unnatural is simply because theyâre uncommon and very obvious. Humans love to ridicule those who look different. People who wore glasses or braces used to get made fun with names like, âfour eyesâ. Now days, itâs a social faux pas to ridicule those who have devices for medical reasons but if they want to improve themselves, like improve their access to information, theyâre perfectly acceptable target.
I used to be made fun of for carrying around a PDA in middle school, now everyone has a PDA (smartphone). Eventually, wearable devices that improve our ability to access information will be as common place as glasses and braces and no one will they look bad.
Augmented reality can be a medical device for people with cognitive issues, e.g. impaired recognition of faces. Suppressing wearable AR devices is a discrimination against those.
i donât know where youâre posting from, but there are support communities near most mid sized cities and google glass is REALLLLLY not popular. i think that you spoke before you checked that out.
i believe that people who are excited about glass have never even considered thinking about the harm to others. covering the camera would be an awesome thing to do but i donât know that it would actually protect you. there is no such thing as a peaceful cyborg, though. weâve all read enough PKD to know that.
