Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life

zacharye writes "The concept of wearable tech is really buzzing right now as pundits tout smart eyewear, watches and other connected devices as the future of tech. It makes sense, of course — smartphone growth is slowing and people need something to hold on to — but the early 'Explorer' version of Google's highly anticipated Google Glass headset has major problem that could be a big barrier for widespread adoption: Awful battery life." Also, a review of the hardware. The current Glass hardware heads south in less than five hours, which doesn't seem too short relative to similarly powerful devices, but since it is meant to be worn all the time you'd think it would have a large enough battery to make it at least 8 or 10 hours.

Comments

Battery life is directly proportional to dorkiness

[Control-Z]

You could probably have a 48-hour battery life if you wanted to wrap the sides and back of your head with batteries. Go for it.

Re: Google glasses

[Anonymous Coward]

Laws regarding filming children (usually more restrictive, sometimes very much so) add to the stickiness of this situation.

Stickiness? Children? Really?

Re: Google glasses

[Anonymous Coward]

You're supposed to think of the children -- but not like that.

Glasshole

[Anonymous Coward]

There may not be an "expectation" of privacy in public, but being "in your face" photographed and/or recorded in public by someone wearing this device makes the wearer a "Glasshole".

Re:Rev. 1 hardware, people

[Lord Grey]

... Rev 2 will simply plug into neural probes and power itself from your brain. What battery life problem?

There are some managers where I work who would experience severe battery life problems, then.

Propeller head

[sinij]

Or you could go for renewable energy source with a propeller hat.