Google glasses?

[Jacktheassassin]

My friends told me about this and I was wondering what you guys thought about this. I thought that this should come under serious business

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Do you think that this is good or is this too advanced?

[InfectedSausage]

I don't get it 

[Jacktheassassin]

Basically google have crossed glasses and iPhone together to make this contraption. Here is a picture of this invention

[InfectedSausage]

Ah, right.

They seem pointless. And stupid.

[Capt. Snow]

Ah, right.

They seem pointless. And stupid.

How? Also, Jack, nothing can be too advanced. Without advancing a lot of things wouldn't exist.

[InfectedSausage]

How?

Because it isn't needed?

[Capt. Snow]

Because it isn't needed?

One could say that about TV's, Computers, Consoles, and Instruments, and if you are really stupid, science.

[InfectedSausage]

One could say that about TV's, Computers, Consoles, and Instruments, and if you are really stupid, science.

That's completely different to some piece of crap glasses that no one will use. Not entertaining and it looks goofy.

[Maxbarrass]

That's completely different to some piece of crap glasses that no one will use. Not entertaining and it looks goofy.

I guess people said the same about Mobile Phones, Portable Gaming Systems, Laptops and Facebook.  I can agree with two of them, however this could be an amazing invention and take us to an age where we could play games with these.  However if a system could access your self conscious to make you believe that you are in an other world.  You will just need to remember how to separate fiction from reality. 
I'm going off track a little.  I honestly cant see how this thing is supposed to work.  Does it have like a mini screen on it or something?

[Jestem TS]

That's completely different to some piece of crap glasses that no one will use. Not entertaining and it looks goofy.

I can only really repeat what the other two have said about other devices looking goofy. I mean, mobile phones look small and goofy but now they're a necessity for most. You can't really give a fair opinion on this if you haven't tried it out for yourself. Being judgemental will earn you a lot of enemies in the future, so don't be it.

[Jacktheassassin]

I guess people said the same about Mobile Phones, Portable Gaming Systems, Laptops and Facebook.  I can agree with two of them, however this could be an amazing invention and take us to an age where we could play games with these.  However if a system could access your self conscious to make you believe that you are in an other world.  You will just need to remember how to separate fiction from reality. 
I'm going off track a little.  I honestly cant see how this thing is supposed to work.  Does it have like a mini screen on it or something?

I really have no idea how these work but agreeing with IS they look really silly,but if I know google, they will use it to track you, see what you like, post some adverts, they earn a bit more cash.

[Maxbarrass]

I really have no idea how these work but agreeing with IS they look really silly,but if I know google, they will use it to track you, see what you like, post some adverts, they earn a bit more cash.

Hey they might even make a way of tracking how many times you go to the toilet or even find out how many times a day you think about toilets or something else toilet related.  I don't know why they would do that though.  Now to be more sensible about the matter they might try and make it so it could read your thoughts so that they can sell it to an other big company.  I would know if they are stealing mine though and will probably spam their machine with a constant wave of bad and stupid thoughts.  Or unleash the part of my mind that I have suppressed for so long, it would probably make whoever try's to read it go insane.  One or the other.

[Godman]

Now to be more sensible about the matter they might try and make it so it could read your thoughts

As a entry by realism, mind reading technology is miles away from anything that precise. Right now the best we can do is tell when people are using certain parts of the brain. I can't image it has got much further than from a couple years back, when scientists and doctors communicated with a fellow with total paralysis by getting him to activate the movement area of the brain (by thinking about playing tennis) for "yes" and thinking about something else which activated another part of the brain for "no".

I suppose it could be used to track your day to day activities by a camera and some recognition technology. From the video it obviously knew that the metro was out of order, it can tell what you doing.

I honestly cant see how this thing is supposed to work.  Does it have like a mini screen on it or something?

Yes, I guess it follows your pupils to tell where on the screen you are looking. Actually, since it also has a camera on the front it can tell what you are looking at outside of it as well, that information would be very interesting for advertisers and other people who care about that kind of thing.

[(insert name here)]

I see a lot of potential for some really useful tools from this, but at the same time I see it causing us to become even lazier than we already are.  With the advancement of technology comes the loss of skills.  With something like this, we effectively become dumber.  We no longer need to remember anything if our mini head-computer will keep track of everything for us and send us reminders.  We no longer need to learn the names of streets or layouts of a town if we can pull up a map and get directions from anywhere on the fly.  We no longer need to know how to read signs or perhaps follow basic instructions to find something in a store if we can get a layout with an arrow pointing exactly where we want to go.  These are just examples from the video itself.  With a device like this, people would become dependent on it, and then without it they wouldn't be able to function.  And if your brain is in a constant state of low activity because your Google glasses are doing all the thinking for you, when it comes time to do some thinking your Google glasses can't do for you, you're going to have a heck of a time trying to do it.

One of my biggest complaints about technology (specifically computer and internety things) is that it makes us anti-social.  People spend countless hours sitting around on their computers or their phones "talking" to each other on Facebook and whatsuch and pretending they are being social by using "social" networking.  While this device might make this worse by making access to things like this even faster an easier, it could also have the opposite effect.  By being so light-weight and completely hands-free, it might encourage people to get up off their lazy bums and go do something that's actually social while continuing to pretend to be social via the internet.  There's still the issue of people ignoring those physically around them in favor of reading someone's latest Facebook status or whatever using their Google glasses, but at least it's a step in the right direction.  Really, in the anti-social regard, it's just a matter of how people would use these.  Would the light-weight-ness of the glasses actually make users more active, or would people continue sitting around their house in the dark doing nothing other than waste their lives browsing the internet?

Actually, since it also has a camera on the front it can tell what you are looking at outside of it as well, that information would be very interesting for advertisers and other people who care about that kind of thing.

That's not necessarily true.  I know that often times (maybe even the majority) what is in the center of my vision isn't what I'm looking at.  Very frequently, what I'm watching is in my peripheral vision rather than the center of my focus.  For example, say there's a cat across the room doing something and I want to see what it's doing, I'd "focus" my eyes several feet to the side of where it actually is and watch it using my peripheral vision.  I don't know how common this is for other people to do, though.  I might just do it because I have terrible vision and everything is blurry to start, so watching something not directly in focus looks the same as things I try to focus on.  Or maybe I just don't like people knowing what I'm actually looking at.