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“Designed for those who move” Strava Cycle Google Play Music Strava Run Send a Message GolfSight
“Made for the open road” Word Lens Google Now Social - Share your adventures instantly Search Take a Picture or Video
Designed for you. And what you do. With multiple colors, frames, shades, and earbuds, Glass is designed to fit your lifestyle.
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White Men Wearing Google Glass "In its favour, if Google Glass didn’t exist, all these Silicon Valley guys would be having affairs or buying unsuitable motorbikes”
Are You a Glasshole? Take This Quiz to Find Out 7. When the cop who just pulled you over asks why you’re wearing Google Glass, the correct response is: a. Hang on, Officer, I need to finish this email. b. Did you know you have an 8.7 rating on PoliceFlirt.com? c. No need to read me my Miranda rights, I just Googled ’em. d. Smile, you’re on candid camera. 8. Wearing Google Glass in public has become so controversial that Google felt compelled to publish rules of etiquette for its Explorers. Which one of the following is not on the list? a. Don’t be creepy. b. Don’t be rude. c. Don’t “Glass out” for hours at a time. d. Don’t use Glass to peer into other people’s souls.
The Top 10 Google Glass Myths Myth 1 - Glass is the ultimate distraction from the real world Myth 2 - Glass is always on and recording everything Myth 3 - Glass Explorers are technology-worshipping geeks … Myth 5 - Glass does facial recognition (and other dodgy things) … Myth 7 - Glass is the perfect surveillance device Myth 8 - Glass is only for those privileged enough to afford it Myth 9 - Glass is banned... EVERYWHERE Myth 10 - Glass marks the end of privacy
Myth 1 - Glass is bad Myth 2- Glass never sprays the wearer with battery acid Myth 3 - Glass Explorers are forerunners for a superior race of cyber-men Myth 4 - Glass makes you look like a spazoiddorker … Myth 6- Glass is actually an incredibly slow-flowing liquid … Myth 9 - Glass is another steptowards the entrenchmentof an increasinglydisconnected technocratic elite
Stop The Cyborgs Only the unmeasured is free. We are not calling for a Government ban on wearable tech like glass. Rather we want to encourage individual people to think about the social impact of new technologies and to discourage the normalisation of surveillance. This blog is speculative opinion based on public articles. It is intended to provoke debate. It is not intended to malign any group, organization, company, or individual. If anything we write offends you or disparages anyone it is probably a mistake so let us know so we can promptly correct it.
When Google Glass Goes Wrong:The Low Down and Dirty People will use it to ignore you People will use it to stalk romantic interests People will be “that guy/girl” who just might be recording this It could be used to spy on the wearer instead And then there’s this…
Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston “It looks weird, but it's better than staring at a tablet or a laptop.” Image: courtesy of John Halamka/BIDMC
Putting Google Glass to Work Google Glass making an appearance on the court for the Indiana Pacers. Credit Celeste Ballou/Pacers.com Dr. Pierre Theodore, a lung surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, uses Glass when he performs minimally invasive surgery that requires the doctor to rely on imagery to guide the surgical instruments. Credit Leland Kim/UCSF
Sources (by order of appearance) Google Glass - http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ Google Glass available to anyone for one day only - http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/tech/innovation/google-glass-april-15/ The “Who’s Getting Google Glass” List, Including Geordi La Forge & Mythbuster Adam Savage - http://marketingland.com/who-getting-google-glass-list-38171 Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass What we know about Google X Lab, Silicon Valley's Area 51 -http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/27/what-we-know-about-googlex-labs.html?s=image_gallery GoogleGlass Survey Result by SurveyCrest - http://www.surveycrest.com/blog/google-glass-survey-result/ BI INTELLIGENCE FORECAST: Google Glass Will Become A Mainstream Product And Sell Millions By 2016 -http://www.businessinsider.com/google-glass-sales-projections-2013-11 White Men Wearing Google Glass - http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/ Are You a Glasshole? Take This Quiz to Find Out - https://www.yahoo.com/tech/are-you-a-glasshole-take-this-quiz-to-find-out-79901226113.html The Top 10 Google Glass Myths - https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/axcPPGjVFrb 10 more myths about Google Glass (mocking) - http://happyplace.someecards.com/30243/10-more-myths-about-google-glass Nissenbaum, Helen. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Print. Stop The Cyborgs - http://stopthecyborgs.org/ When Google Glass Goes Wrong: The Low Down and Dirty - http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/03/27/when-google-glass-goes-wrong-the-low-down-and-dirty/ Drahos, Peter, and John Braithwaite. Information Feudalism. London: Earthscan, 2002. Print. One Of America's Largest Hospitals Brings Google Glass Into The ER -http://www.fastcompany.com/3027978/one-of-americas-largest-hospitals-brings-google-glass-into-the-er At Google, Bid to Put Its Glasses to Work - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/technology/google-begins-a-push-to-take-glass-to-work.html?_r=0