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cali

(114,904 posts)
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:08 PM Feb 2013

The very idea of Google Glasses makes me giggle.

What the world truly needs.

New details of the eagerly awaited "Google Glass" device have emerged in a test report published by a US regulator.

The web search giant’s latest hardware project is an augmented reality headset, which, according to the test report by the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC), plays video and audio to the wearer, and includes a “vibrating element”.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/technology-gadgets/google-glasses-come-into-focus-16269288.html#ixzz2JrfuBYVd

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The very idea of Google Glasses makes me giggle. (Original Post) cali Feb 2013 OP
I saw a video somewhere a while back that mocked these arcane1 Feb 2013 #1
I want the ones with the built-in cup holder Spirochete Feb 2013 #2
I can haz camera in glasses? MineralMan Feb 2013 #3
PR0N is always a first adopter. nt longship Feb 2013 #4
Indeed. Porn has driven a number of MineralMan Feb 2013 #5
Why not "Google goggles"? eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 #6
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. I saw a video somewhere a while back that mocked these
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:11 PM
Feb 2013

It was basically someone walking down the street wearing these things, and everything they looked at would trigger a pop-up ad

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)
2. I want the ones with the built-in cup holder
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:12 PM
Feb 2013

don't need the vibration thing - that'll just make them fall of my face all the time...

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)
3. I can haz camera in glasses?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:14 PM
Feb 2013

A new wave of point-of-view porn is on its way...not to mention voyeur crap.

I don't think I want anything to do with these.

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)
5. Indeed. Porn has driven a number of
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:36 PM
Feb 2013

high-tech innovations. If it exists, there is porn of it, and it will shortly be on the Internet.

eppur_se_muova

(36,281 posts)
6. Why not "Google goggles"?
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:42 PM
Feb 2013

You know people are going to favor that expression anyway.

Or maybe Goolasses.

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