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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.
I swear that if anyone approaches me wearing those things I'm going to punch him in the face.
This is what they were able to build. Rev 2. (probably when they get to mass producing it) will have better battery life
Early adopters are going to eat it up. Give it a few generations and it might be usable.
But I think the real problem is it is ugly and goes on your face.
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The size of that battery is very small, especially for what this device is supposed to deliver to the user. Who didn't see this one coming?
ORLY? Who made that rule?
What Star Terk Captions didn't know was that Zapp Brannigan means of dealing with Robot Wars would have worked for them too. Kept seen waves of men until the batteries are drained. Also I wonder how long until people deaths are put down not see the real world but only at their screen. Headphones are bad but visual distraction is worst.
Life is like untied shoe laces; it always tripping you up and getting in your way.
Which is probably an old guy way of thinking of it, but I can't get the image of thousands of irreparably cross eyed consumers filing a class action lawsuit...
i got data flashing in front of me all the time. i know the news before anyone else. i'm so cool.
everything will be the same, but with a new point of view
Steep obstacles: comfort, perception that you will be a privacy-invader, eye health, battery life .. these have an uphill battle.
Batteries.
Since it's, effectively, a pair of glasses, make each of the temples or temple tips be a rechargable battery, with a good enough connector to handle connecting/disconnecting and plugging / unplugging hundreds of times.
Design them so that it won't shut down if even one of the two power sources is present, and ship with two+, allowing people to buy additional. Power temple #L1 is low? Disconnect and plug in power temple #L2. Power temple #R1 is recharged, replace power temple #R2 that are on the glasses.
Since google has been better at design (lately) than Apple (who came up with craptacular earphone jacks for the latest iPods), this should be easy.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
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.
This model merely sets the baseline to be surpassed by Google Glass HD Maxx. Followed by Google Glass Mini. Next comes Google glass Hydro. Finally the product line peters out with the New Google Glass.
...of course battery life on these is going to be low; they're designed to attach to one side of your glasses! Even if they had the space to put more battery in, they wouldn't, because then you'd have a device that was always pulling your glasses down one side of your face, to say nothing of the extra weight on your nose and ear.
Batteries are heavy. If you create a face-mounted computer, you're going to want to make it as light as humanly possible. This should not come as anything remotely close to a surprise or shock to geeks.
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If GGlass is the future, I fear it. I don't want a world with padded utility poles, increasingly distracted drivers, and a society moving away from face-to-face confrontations for friendly interactions.
For real... if I ever see someone with one of these get punched in the face, I will cheer on the perpetrator. I will also frequent places where they are banned outright. I already go to events which have an unwritten "no phones on the dance floor" rules, which interestingly enough, are frequented by young positive people who actually understand the value of in-person interactions and only use tech where it makes sense.
It's almost like this is a working prototype or something
Would look like stereo headphone cords. Could have an arbitrarily large battery in your pocket or purse. They sell them now for cell phones-- basically double the life.
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This thing is crap. No one cares about it. Change the subject. Google Glass news is about as interesting as Segway news.
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That's my call. In a billion years I just can't fathom the general public being OK with cameras recording them constantly. It will destroy society.
Google glass has to have a powerful ARM processor and a high resolution display to implement it's specs. 2013 technology can only reduce the power consumption for that to a certain extent. And glass is supposed to be a wearable pair of glasses, so the battery mass can only be so high before it causes pain for the wearer.
A wire trailing down from the user's neck to a battery pack elsewhere is a potential solution...but wires like that get tangled up.
Maybe a bleeding edge higher density experimental battery? There are a few like that with more power density (about double) than the best standard lithium ion packs. Of course, such batteries are more likely to fail by catching fire, and this would be in the worst possible place.
Offload more computation to the android smartphone that goes with the glass? Still have to run the radios at a high bitrate to get things like the camera feed. Also this would make the smartphone mandatory.
Ideas? The concept here is awesome, but it de fact REQUIRES a powerful machine that can do image recognition in realtime, monitor gps and heading, read street signs, etc etc etc. This in turn means many millions of active transistors.
The only thing I can think of that just might work is a custom ASIC that provides hardware implementation of the most common mathematical functions performed by the most common glass application. You can get 10 :1 better power efficiency using a custom ASIC to implement the logic instead of a general purpose chip. The catch is, the cost to create such a chip is exorbitant.
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Since it's, effectively, a pair of glasses, make each of the temples or temple tips be a rechargable battery
That is a really, really REALLY REALLY bad idea.
People are supposed to put on the glasses (even if they don't wear glasses) and then also remember to bring three or four handfuls of batteries, and not lose them also? And you also have to remember to charge three or four sets of these tiny things every day?
At that point the whole thing is only slightly more practical than just wearing an Occulus with a motorcycle battery in a backpack!
Since google has been better at design (lately) than Apple (who came up with craptacular earphone jacks for the latest iPods)
The latest iPod earbuds are the only ones ever made I can stand to wear more than an hour. That includes the custom shaped ones.... I spent a few hundred on a nice set of earbuds but after I got the newer Apple earbuds, the Apple buds are the ones I use on planes simply because I can leave them in. The sounds is not as good but the shape is far, far better.
Apple also apparently understands that most people hate recharging batteries, a fact that seems lost on Slashdot.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The Google Glass version being handed out to people is meant as a field test. It was produced in limited quantities and I would guess the hardware and software will both undergo significant changes before being released. Reviewing this as if it's something you're able to buy today is ridiculous!
... that Google's core competency is in cloud computing services? And not in hardware design.
News release: company with no previous hardware sales success can't resolve real world energy problem. Yawn.
We should learn what we need to know about issues, before we decide what we need to feel about them.
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".
ORLY? Who made that rule?
Google did, through design choices.
Look at it. When not wearing, are you going to:
1) Put in pocket with keys
2) Put in pocket with phone.
3) Put in backpack with books.
Look at any image showing the whole thing. It doesn't even fold up like sunglasses so you cannot use a case. It would not fit in a pocket, and you'd be an idiot to do so anyway as it looks really fragile.
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A wire trailing down from the user's neck to a battery pack elsewhere is a potential solution...but wires like that get tangled up.
Why not a battery that hangs around your neck? If you make it flat and thin enough and hang it from a lanyard it could be worn under the shirt with comfort and would also be discreet. It could easily hold a battery twice the size of that found in a cellphone. If the battery is built into the lanyard you can have a wire take the charge from the battery up through the lanyard to the back of the neck where the glasses can plug in. Get's the weight of the head and onto a part of the body than can handle the weight for a significant period of time and eliminates the need for a long wire going to a battery pack in your pocket.
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I wonder if some product developers have been operating on the assumption that battery life will triple in the next year or two. There have been reports suggesting that such a close-in timeframe for such substantial improvement is not impossible.
I'm in my early 30's with better than 20/20 vision. I know that won't hold out forever, but I've never needed glasses. Why would I want to wear these?
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You have a huge electro-chemical generator just millmeters from the glasses.
People have also made mechanical power sources from footsteps or pedometer pendulums. Remember self-winding watches?
what about generators that run off of cigarette lighters? Here's my attempt at a calculation:
Butane lighter ~ 70kJ (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100426110511AAIvSgM)
hmm... I also see 600J, here (http://cadlab6.mit.edu/2.009.wiki/anchor/index.php?title=Butane_cigarette_lighter)
which is it???
assuming 50% efficiency, that leaves 35 kilojoules = 9.7 Wh
or from the second reference 300J = 0.083 Wh
the iPhone 5 has 5.45 Wh battery...
Hey the iglass sure looks neat, wake me up when its 1994, i mean seriously, ppl act like wearable computing is some new big thing, i have lots of old HMD gear i'm not using, if some svelt kid wants to borrow,
ISWC zurich many moons ago was fun as fuc.
my regret was not buying a com port clip on HMD, i mean it only did like ascii or something low end and was in amber color, that fucking thing had the easyest txt i've ever read, using a HMD, i think the company was microoptical, i guess they are no longer around darpa funds being such.
heck ok here check out one of my other toys, the Sony PLM-A55, here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron
see decade ago, i had a problem wearing geek gear on my face all Overt, i want a pair of glasses that can display, simple txt, 10 characters wide by 4 deep, covert, something like that was built ages ago, at the time it cost 5k or something crazy, yeah hind site is 20x20, i should have bought a pair, then i'd not be bitching.
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Although the parent is rather obviously trolling, Google has a bit to learn about marketing. They are after all the brainiacs that launch social hubs by generating massive publicity and intrest for it, then letting people in only slowly so that by the time most people can actually use it, the hype has completely died off and the early birds have left because the places were deserted.
Google Glass has a simple answer for both power and battery life and price and reception. It is called a wire, the kind of wire that is attached to headphones. Gadget freaks already carry a large battery, a powerful cpu etc. They also are highly likely to carry a pair of headphones. So... why is Google Glass not equipped for decent headphones or a wire?
Simply connect it via USB to a phone. Then you use the touchscreen on the phone in your pocket, use its cpu and its reception without wasting battery life on a short range radio that has to deal with close promiximity of a human body (always plays merry hell with bluetooth).
I think Google was terrified that the device would be to nerdy and not hip enough but lets face it. This will only appeal to the terminally uncool and that is okay because I long since given up on the idea that any woman will go "meh, why not, just how bad can it be" by just seeing me and would be perfectly at home... but I also like my gadgets to be functional and a gadget that is out of power before mid day, isn't functional (or do you think that as you use a device, battery life goes up?).
Nice try google but either invent a battery 10 times more efficient then current tech or break out the wires. And really, WHERE ARE THE EARPLUGS!
because there MIGHT be 1 woman out there crazy enough but if I am seen with these glasses on and STILL talking in my phone... forget it... oh wait, she just texted me... oh. right... oh well... send me a pair over Google, seems I don't need to worry about how it will look any more.
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While your privacy MAY be protected to some extent by local laws, it is trumped by the protection of other people's (and yours) bodies from physical harm.
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Try downloading and watching this episode of Black Mirror, "The Entire History of You" (Season 1, Episode 3) in which most people (in a not too distant future) have a 'grain' implanted behind their ear which records everything they do, see or hear. This allows memories to be played back either in front of the person's eyes or on a screen, a process known as a 're-do'. Google Glass feels like the beginning of this, and [spoiler alert] what do you think happens at the end of the episode? You can read the whole synopsis on the Wikipedia page for it.
its always been about battery life for us old school HMD ppl,
watts per weight lith/ion was nice, me i'm not so concerned about weight, 30lbs of seal lead acid is a lot lower cost
objective, being able to see what i type into my note book, i'd rather not walk around talking to myself and having machine translate things, as that would look crazy.
I have found a solution partial Audio based wearable computing, i can type and the buffer reads back what i enter, all in my ears stealth like.
Yesterday I bought a second hand HP11c programmable calculator. This was high-tech in 1981 and cost $135 at the time, the equivalent of about $350 now.
The old HP calculator was designed to withstand being dropped from shirt pocket height onto a concrete floor and still work. My one still works perfectly (self test complete), though I did have to replace the batteries to make it wake up. The original set of batteries lasted over 20 years.
I also have an NEC PC8201a laptop computer. This was built in 1983 and I used it heavily through the 1980s and early 1990s. It was the first machine which I used for internet access, back in the early 1980s with a 300 baud modem. This computer has been dropped, accidentally stood on, chucked in the bottom of my bag, rattled around on my bicycle and generally abused. It still works *perfectly*, and still runs for weeks on a set of four AA cells. In fact, the battery life now should be better than when it was new because modern NiMH cells have a much higher capacity than early 1980s NiCD.
Now what sort of progress is it that results in modern devices being so irritatingly fragile and having such poor battery life ?
Miniature cameras have been very accessible and affordable (much more affordable than Glass, in fact) for quite some time. Why are you punching the one guy in a ten, who openly displays his camera?
A person wearing GG is like the known teacher's pet. You know to not talk shit about Ms. Crabapple when the pet is around. It's the secret snitch who is the real problem. That's who tattles on you. And there you are, punching the pet.
It's not that there aren't real privacy concerns out there, but the way people are reacting to this product is just plain sad and exemplifies how amazingly stupid people are.
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Or you could go for renewable energy source with a propeller hat.
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.
The battery only has to last long enough for it to get stolen, when you to get mugged wearing it, or take it off, when entering a posted "No hipster douche-bags" area - which I'm betting will become more prevalent over time...
Seriously, what is the purpose of this device? Do you really need that level of interactivity with your surroundings? Do you need information pop-ups about what you see - probably in your own town? Like that Ford Sync feature shown in commercials - "Find Chinese restaurant." Perhaps useful for the first week you live there, then not so much...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The proper response to somebody wearing Google Glasses is to look at them for a second and then address them as follow: "Hey Google, you want to know everything about me? Great. You can start with my ass". Then, you moon the wearer.
If you do this in the US, there is legal precedent for it as protected speech.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I tried to warn people that this wasn't like their usual 8-12 hour devices, and that they had to trade off battery weight for comfort.
Seriously, if we could use wearable clothing that would power this, or even a solar cap with battery units woven in, we might be able to make it "wearable tech".
We're not quite there. Energy has to come from somewhere, and video really burns up watt hours.
The other way to go is hipster retro sunglasses, Mad Men bulky style, and use the stems plus the ear hooks to store battery power.
The military versions are way cool, but they make soldiers carry a lot of weight already.
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...and some people were mistrustful of photography because they thought that cameras could 'steal' their souls, or worried that automobiles traveling faster than 50mph would rip our bodies apart. This is really like saying that 1984 is the "logical conclusion" to the internet and government intervention, when in truth we, as a society, are generally pretty good at voicing concerns, and we're able to deal with and temper those concerns.
I'd certainly agree that there are some major negative side effects of this technology, so in the end I think comments like yours are good to bring up. I still, however, remain pretty hopeful that this is a technology that will have tangible, positive effects on our lives. Eventually.
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Why is everyone so critical of this technology?
It's new and interesting. Obviously it is going to take a few iterations to be fully functional, but why should that stop the early adopters from beta-testing the device if they want to pay for it? Other companies make us do it all the time with computers, phones, software and cars.
Also, how much battery life is enough? The hardware is very small... would you rather have a gigantic Lithium ion battery strapped to your head? (That might help with balancing the device center-of-mass.) Or maybe a micro-nuclear reactor? Just like your phone: If you want it to last all day, don't use it all the time.
Have we really become so elitist that we cannot appreciate novel technology unless it is completely and utterly perfect?
Good luck on finding a jury to convict me.
...and don't like contacts.
I suspect a lot people in a position to will get corrective laser eye surgery just to use this device and similar things that will follow. If the concept really catches on in a smartphone or tablet kind of way, that would leave a lot of people out in the cold. Of course, the idea of people having their bodies augmented just to interface with technology, and having that not seem weird, would be very promising.
We will soon see. Strange times are knocking on the door.
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...and some people were mistrustful of photography because they thought that cameras could 'steal' their souls, or worried that automobiles traveling faster than 50mph would rip our bodies apart. This is really like saying that 1984 is the "logical conclusion" to the internet and government intervention, when in truth we, as a society, are generally pretty good at voicing concerns, and we're able to deal with and temper those concerns.
I'd certainly agree that there are some major negative side effects of this technology, so in the end I think comments like yours are good to bring up. I still, however, remain pretty hopeful that this is a technology that will have tangible, positive effects on our lives. Eventually.
Well, still: as an exercise, watch the episode. It's a fast torrent download. And then let's discuss.
More dribble from Slashdot. Portable devices can ALWAYS have bigger batteries by simply choosing to carry a bigger battery on one's person, and connecting the device to this power source. With Google Glass, for instance, users can choose the inconvenience of a waist-mounted battery pack, with flying power lead up to one's head.
You see, you moron Slashdot editors, there is a distinction between the nature of the mobile device you need to build, and the way in which you will power said device if you MUST have a longer operating life. Google Glass needs to meet the requirements of a head mounted system suitable for the greatest number of potential users. This fact alone sets a maximum weight, which in turn creates a limit on the internal battery. HOW IS THIS FACT NOT OBVIOUS?
To be doable (and maybe Google Glass still falls short), technology has to allow various minimum factors to be met. Weight. Battery life. Processing power. Quality of display. Quality of camera. From its specs, GG teeters at the edge with respect to display quality- the persistent issue with these minimum weight head-mounted systems. Indeed, it is hard to see how GG improves on the decade+ old 'private-eye' device which, if memory serves, actually had a better resolution (albeit in monochrome). Of course, 'private eye' was a display-only device.
Does anyone here think hard-core GG users would baulk at a walk-man like battery pack belt attached to their waist? Can we please grow up over this battery issue? All mobile devices made light enough will have battery life issues, including the coming 'smart watches' from just about everyone.
There is a flip-side to this. Ordinary (not stupid air-book/ultra-book) notebooks are heavy enough to have magnificent amounts of battery power versus the coming new generation of low power CPU/GPU internals from AMD and others. Previously, dreadful designs from Intel have sucked the life from even the biggest batteries in notebooks. Now, using the same approach found in Android and iOS devices, notebooks can target vastly longer usage periods on a single charge. The real question is NOT how long GG runs from a charge but how long we can get a real mobile computer operating for.
The real issue for GG is keeping the initial battery life. Battery powered devices tend to get worse in this regard against time. GG should have a cheap, easily replaced battery.
I read through the wiki synopsis (off topic - I'd like to watch it eventually, but don't currently have good access to a connection where I should be torrenting), and I would agree it *is* scary. To me, though, it falls sorta in the same realm as the Matrix - a seemingly logical extension of technology that somehwat ignores the fact that humans are cranky enough to eventually prevent the darkest aspects of that from widely occurring.
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Dear poster, don't you remember an article a short while ago, explaining how a pretty old chipset is used in the device? With a chipset that's many years fresher, it will be possible to both go down in power consumption and increase performance. I'm sure most other components, including the battery, were thought to improve in energy efficiency.
A hat with some discrete solar panels and some hidden batteries would be practical and not be too dorky. Depending on the hat.
Real dorks would wear a beanie with a propeller for recharging. Although I'm not sure there's enough wind in their parents basement to make a difference.
Log in or piss off.
Actually, to be honest, I totally agree with you and your position. I'm not a luddite and I've used your argument similarly many times with friends. It's interesting that in the end the guy cuts the thing out of his head though. Also, by far the most attractive woman in the episode has no "grain", but she also shows the horrible scar it left, demonstrating what an ordeal it is to get the thing out of you.
I dont need a screen, make me a necklace and work on the speech-recognition and AI! :-)
More room for hardware and batteries and i don't have akward glasses on my head which will make everybody feel uncomfortable.
Google, please, it's the logical thing to do, a star trek computer in your necklace, i want it!
This is a HUD combined with wearable computing and cloud syncing using Linux/Android as an OS and /. of all places can't think of something more interesting to say "You will look stupid using these". Or "I'd punch anyone wearing Google glass 'cos there is a camera in those things too. If you cannot see past your own vanity or that this might be more than a camera, then honestly you have no right to call yourself a nerd. Seriosu
I'll definitely check it out; I hadn't even heard of the show before your comment, so thanks!!
LegendMUD
The next product in the Google line, for people who wanted a larger battery in their Google Glasses.
Why not get a lot of batteries taped to the inside of a jacket, then wear that through airport security while filming? What could go wrong?
If I can see you with my own eyes and hear you with my own ears, then it's public. Don't like it, become a congress person or lawyer and change the laws. Until then, stop whining about privacy, you don't have it anymore. Get over it.
American's are not worried about privacy, they are worried what people above them will do with it, that's an issue between the people and those above, not the tech.
You're fooling no one.
How about a hat with solar cells? would it provide enough electricity to run Google glass ?
Actually, the first thing I thought of was a power lead down to a battery that clips on your belt.
Having rigged my headphones in a similar manner for a while, the problem is that the wire has to lay flush with your neck to avoid causing irritating tugs on wherever it connects to the rest of you (in my case the ears, probably similar for the Glass), but every neck movement stretches that surface of skin a lot farther than a wire can respond to. So if I turn my head to the left, I'm now either pulling on my right ear or hoping the arrangement I've rigged has enough local give. Even if the battery were at your clavicle, the issues with the neck itself would still be there.
If you don't let the wire lay flush with your neck, then it's incredible how much there is to get tangled on around your neck. Even with a finger-length loop of free cord, my headphones were still getting tangled around my jacket zipper, the buttons of my shirt collar, everything.
They are very small in size, its brand new, and its new technology (generally speaking). Of course the battery life isn't that great. Nothing ever has great battery life as soon as it comes out, especially when its essentially a brand new tech.
My cell phone gets great battery life but hell I remember when they first came out and my dad had one. Damn thing worked for like 20 minutes and ran off a battery in the bag that was 20x bigger than my entire cell phone is right now. Ripping on something because of a growing pain that virtually everyother piece of tech has gone through when it first came out is lazy and stupid.
Plug a charging solar cell hatwire into your right temple and 'seeya later girls, we'll be right back'..
Am I the only one worrying about having a device that emits signals at 2.45GHz stuck directly on my skull all day long? Sure, the intensity may not be big enough to damage brain tissue immediatly, but I' would wait till I can see some long-term effects.
"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."
I guess this would be a good time to bring up the fact that batteries often fail explosively. I'm thinking the "battery pack helmet" would be similar to the packing around a plutonium core, only there is no packing on the face, so...well, I think you get the idea. Could get messy.
This may sound absurd,but I wonder if you would get enough power by wrapping the rims and frame in high efficency thin film solar panels. Or you could include a solar hat as an accessory. It would likely generate more than enough power to allow for perpetual usage in sunlight. And would likely extend battery life in indoor level conditions.
So your mangers would tired and blind then after a full days use. The blind leading th....
I guess this would be a good time to bring up the fact that batteries often fail explosively.
...for unusual definitions of "usually", yes.
I'm a fruit pirate. I bought a watermelon once, and spat the seeds in the back yard. They grew into another watermelon,
just a medal to be worn around the neck would do it just fine for bumping the use to 18+ hours.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I do this with AAA powered mp3 player all the time, very convenient, it's too bad that none of the manufacturers seem to realize this and newer mp3 all have un-replacable batteries.
A battery around the neck is not going to be light. Most of the weight of current-gen devices is now tied up in the batteries.
I think a better solution would be for us to actually put some thought into workflow of hot-swapping rechargeable batteries for a device used for long periods - the iPaq had this with a secondary NiMH cell so you could swap the Li-Ion battery way back in 2000. Surely, with some attention paid to design, the swap action etc. this could actually be made smoothly usable.
...because every Google Glass user is going to need some. I don't have one, but I'm guessing Google Glass, when recording, will capture everything I look at/towards. So it'll pick up every glance the user makes toward a woman's legs, backside, breasts, face (yup that's often the order). There'll be plenty of idiots initially who'll share lots of instant video captures where halfway through they take a glance down a girl's blouse... they'll learn and they'll need video editting software!
Now I have more to worry about than looking stupid wearing it.
"Holy Living shit" might be hard to interpret in court. I suggest making it longer using specific examples.
I would also suggest you only print it on XXXXL size shirts as it will have to be that big in order to hold it all.
In addition, on the inside of the tag, make sure you use the standard "This agreement is valid upon visual inspection, and may be amended at any time and in any way in my head and I need only notify you verbally after said beating."
I rather put my 1500$ to a iwatch that has better screen than this google glass thing.
so thats that thing in starwars that guy wears at cloud city
are we forgetting that the body that is wearing this tech moves?
As such there are 2 ways that I know of that can generate power that could be used to charge the battery while in use: -
1 Wearable generator at a joint such as elbow or shoulder.
2. Clothes (or part thereof) that generate some static electricity.
Using something like that would ensure that the device (google glass) as plenty of power.
The only downside is that you still need to connect your generated power to the glasses battery - can we transmit that wirelessly too?
Google is a software company, not a hardware company.
Is this really a problem so early in the product's life?
I would be a lot happier if they had a conspicuous LED that came on whenever the camera was operating. But I'd still prefer to see Google Glass banned from clubs and other places where people can reasonably expect some measure of privacy.