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Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream?
New submitter some old guy writes "Marcus Wohlsen writing in Wired Business makes a good case for why no amount of marketing hype will cure Google Glass of its inherent dorkiness. 'Google Glass fails to acknowledge that walking around with a camera mounted on the side of your face at all times makes you look dorky. Think of the Bluetooth headset: it’s a really sensible way to use your phone without having to take it out of your pocket—so sensible that there’s really no reason not to keep that headset in your ear most of the time. But you don’t, do you?' He also makes an interesting comparison to the Segway debacle: 'If we were all riding around on Segways now, cities would probably be better places to live compared to the car-infested streets we still endure. But that transformation hasn't happened. And it won’t. Why? Because Segways are lame. They’re too rational. They fail to acknowledge all the irrational reasons people love their cars.'"
How did this get modded up? It's been made in in each of the billion previous glass threads that they have versions that can be fitted with prescription lenses.
Pocket protectors. 20-sided dice. Fanny packs. Floppy diskettes.
Carol vs. Ghost
Most Anonymous Cowards are so inadequate they don't have any opinions of their own, they cut-n-paste other people's.
http://rawmaterialformisanthropes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/i-hate-nerds.html
And some twits actually modded it up!
But still I see very few people wearing blue-tooth headsets. And usually when I do, it's people who have just left their car. I still think it looks completely ridiculous when people are talking using a bluetooth headset. And with cars having built in bluetooth, I think I even see fewer people with the earpieces.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
On the guy's blog about the McDonalds incident, he says "The eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools.", but that's the closest thing I've been able to find. Somewhere, I read that it just has electrodes stuck to his head like an ECG. Hardly implants.
As for his "severe vision problem", he says in that same post that he carries around a letter from his doctor, but never mentions a vision disorder.
http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html