Google Glasses

This weekend I was able to try out Google glasses.  My older brother works for Google and he just got a pair last week.  (Right now, buying them is pretty exclusive.  You have to have an invitation to buy them and they are $1500).  But, since my brother owned a pair and we had talked about them in 451, I decided I had to try them on and take a picture.  Since he had some inside scoop, I thought I would share a few things I learned about them.  First of all, Google is not planning to release them for purchase to the general public until the cost is down to around $500.  Secondly, since they are still a very new technology, its abilities are somewhat limited.  Here are my honest thoughts:

1. The screen you saw while wearing them was a true holographic computer screen, displayed above my right eye, a bit in the distance.
2. There were not actual lenses over my eyes...I thought there would be.  According to my bro, they will be available with prescription lenses as well.
3. The blye part near my right eye could be used as a motion sensor to switch between screens and see new information, kind of like how your finger swipes a smartphone. 

Will I own my own pair in the near future?  Probably not.  Pretty much everything they can do can also be done on my smartphone and I think it looks a little too Jetson-like for me at this point in time.  Regardless, I'm still excited I got to try them on! 

 

Now I know this technically is not independent reading BUT it does connect to 451, so I feel like I can share it on my reading blog.