Google just put out a video showing 14 ways that their Project Glass initiative may change our daily lives. (I prefer the street name for the project though: Google Glasses.)
It’s pretty mindblowing! When you wake up and put on your glasses, you’ll see a row of icons that you can activate by tilting your head and/or nodding… from there you can go on to use the glasses as you walk around.
Here are 14 ways you can use the glasses:
1. Let You Browse The Web And Access Apps From Your Glasses
2. Remind You Of Events In Your Calendar
3. Show You The Weather When You Look Out The Window
4. Let You Read Texts In Real Time
5. Let You Reply To Texts Right Away By Speaking Out Loud
6. Warn You When Subway Lines Aren’t Running
7. Give You Walking Directions And Show You What Direction To Walk In
8. Dictate Reminders To Yourself When You See Something Cool
9. Show You How To Find Your Way Around A Bookstore
10. Check If Your Friend Is Nearby
11. Check In To Restaurant or Food Truck
12. Take Pictures And Post To Web
13. Video Chat With Girlfriend If You’re Running Late
14. Screenshare What You See Over Video Chat
There’s no flying cars yet, but stuff like this makes me feel like we’re living in the future! Check out the gallery for pics of people wearing Google Glasses.
Would you wear a pair of Google Glasses?




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that shit is freaky
ETA: and I would fall down
ranunculus / 3457 posts
Because a Bluetooth headset doesn’t look stupid enough
rose / 795 posts
That is so cool! I would want it for the directions. I always get lost.
rose / 786 posts
I’m getting flashbacks to some movie where there are robots or where they tried to do something like this and people started not being able to live with this…..
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Cool as fuck, I have no sense of direction.
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If that’s not an april fools prank then it’s pretty stupid.
sunflower / 352 posts
LOL, is this an April Fool’s joke? The ‘showing when a friend is near you’ function is kinda creepy. But I’d use it for directions!
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those are really cool, but i think you would die if you tried to use them while driving.
guest
That’s creepy. Tell me it’s a joke?!
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hahahahahha. I think the only things I really like about this are the directions function, the weather function, and the public transportation function. It’s always good to know if a certain bus or train isn’t running, or is running late. Assuming you use public transportation, that is. Like what other’s have said, it can be dangerous. I’d turn off the function of letting people know where I am.
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ho’ boy
For guys like me. . . . too much
orchid / 152 posts
These look really helpful, but I’m pretty hesitant about being THAT plugged in.
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I hope these are real. I want them.
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Cool concept, but are people just supposed to wear these around? Like, all day every day?
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CYBORGS!
daffodil / 1601 posts
Not unless they can be put into my actual glasses so it could look discrete.
Also, how many freaking people would get into car accidents/get hit cars because of these things? It’s one thing when you look down at your smart device, but how much more distracting would it be when this stuff starts popping up in your actual line of site?
daisy / 543 posts
That’s awesome. If they’re real, it’ll be a pretty penny to get one.
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That is just too freaky weird, sorry…
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If this is real, I would rather have this than an iPad or any tablet for that matter.
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APRIL FOOLS! Right?
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…right?
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FUTURISTIC
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Oh my god. This is really cool. Wow, I want.
magnolia / 1066 posts
Welcome to the precursors of Wall-E.
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wow so futuristic!
orchid / 173 posts
i’m gonna let my nerd flag fly and say these look awesome,. of course, i’d want them to fit into a regular pair of glasses, beaus they look a bit silly. unless they could have an earpiece and be a phone too. that would be neat!
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WTF?! did i just travel in time 30 years from now?
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yes
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LOL.. would be hilarious to see people walking down the street nodding and tilting their heads and talking to themselves.
hydrangea / 76 posts
is this a belated april fool’s joke?
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Yes I would!
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http://www.slashgear.com/google-project-glass-smart-glasses-revealed-04221528/
Apparently is not an April Fools joke.
kind of wish it was. :/
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People already get in enough accidents texting while driving, now they want to put all this shit right IN your line of vision!? that seems like a great idea.
I can’t wait to see a bunch of people bumbling around wearing these, running into walls or other people because they have yet to learn how to use one eye for checking their glasses and one for viewing their surroundings.
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As scary as I am, while wearing these, things popping up in front of me will cause an accident!
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That’d be a great way to find yourself glued to someone else’s car grill.
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I would wear the fuck out of those!
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I’m down. I get lost too easily sometimes! haha Definitely a no-no when driving, of course! Too bad half of the population won’t abide by that rule though, huh? :/
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terrifying. And it would totally confuse me to see the things in the glasses and the surrounding too.
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Honestly, I thought I would think it was too much, but the more I hear about it, the more I dig it.
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Wouldn’t the stuff on the screen get in the way of you seeing stuff???
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I feel like it’s mostly just another distraction to add to a world already full of enough distractions.
I can’t stand it as it is with people stuck to their phones,tablets,computers, etc. 24/7. Although technology has a way of connecting people, I think it also has a way of disconnecting people from reality and the moment at present.
For example: One person I know always texts on her phone whenever she hangs out with me and other people. It’s rude, it’s annoying, and basically technology is just another way for people to escape instead of dealing with the situation present and making the best of it.
She could just turn her phone off, and perhaps converse and try to listen and get to know others more, but instead she chooses to talk with only the person on the phone. It’s her choice, but what a sad world people must live in if they have to continuously confide with a person on the phone instead of learning to confide with the people present.
That’s just one of the many examples…some people these days kind of are starting to lack humanity
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15. To look stupid.