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Google Glass Specs Hit the Web
Nerval's Lobster writes "Google has issued the specifications for its spectacles. The search-engine giant's Google Glass, an augmented-reality headset that allows wearers to view information on a tiny screen embedded in one of the lenses, features a camera capable of snapping 5-megapixel photos and 720p video. That aforementioned screen, in the words of Google's just-released specs sheet, "is the equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away." Google Glass is compatible with any Bluetooth-capable phone. Its MyGlass app, which enables SMS messaging and GPS, requires a companion device running Android 4.0.3 (the "Ice Cream Sandwich" build) or higher. Google claims the battery will provide a "full day of typical use," although the company warned in the specs sheet that certain functions—most notably video recording and Hangouts—could drain the battery faster. Despite those neat features, Google Glass also raises some thorny questions about surveillance culture, and whether people really want whole crowds recording every moment of our collective lives. But those are the sort of conundrums that will only become more clear when Google Glass is actually released sometime later this year."
At least it'll be safe. Wearing a pair of Google Glasses will be the best contraceptive known to man.
Specs! I get it!
Long signatures suck.
...I'm told it's better than chocolate.
Protip: Your eyeballs are just fancy radiation detectors. Worried? Keep them closed.
And covered with tinfoil
Why just be a walking douche when for a few thousand dollars more you could be stood on a segway and enjoy the total douche experience?
.. awful. Really, try it. Back eight feet away from your monitor and what can you see?
I can see doctors...
I backud up and fell out of the window and now I'm in hospital :(
i still can't figure out the point in spending $1500 on a pair
- stylish accoutrement while riding your Segway
- Create instant envy while in Starbucks with your iMac
- Hands-free brutalization while recording cops brutalizing you
- hilarious Google Glass Fail videos for the rest of us to enjoy
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Who will ever be able to forget the 21st century's greatest porno hit- "Google Asses"?
So what you're getting at is.. there's a risk it will turn some of us into werewolves?
which is totally what she said