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Google Glass Teardown
saccade.com writes "Ever wonder how Google packed all of the Google Glass functionality into a slender eyeglass frame? Find out by checking out this teardown by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson. Goodies found inside include proximity, light and inertial sensors, sound transducers, a TI OMAP CPU, flash, RAM, camera and tiny projection display."
What, no government mind control device? I am shocked!
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Ever wonder how Google packed all of the Google Glass functionality into a slender eyeglass frame?
They're evil.
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After the PRISM leaks I can't imagine wearing something like this. I hope Google Glass gets banned in all public spaces and commercial spaces. Your company is competing against Booz Allen Hamilton or it's corporate parent The Caryle Group, would you be comfortable knowing employees of those companies are apparently using the NSA as their personal search engine? I wouldn't.
....if they had recorded the teardown of Google glass, with another Google glass.
Silence is a state of mime.
No, no I haven't... because I've seen the insides of a cellphone and tablet. I'm surprised it's not smaller!
[*] 90% of a cellphone is it's battery; even more for a tablet. If there were no need for a screen or keypad, the whole thing would be the size of a sugar packet.
Just imagine one of these beauties with Cyanogen! I want one of those for sure!
I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
Fascinating how they cram so much in so little space. I say miniaturize even further so that the device would blend in inconspicuously with my shiny polished toecap.
(To those with a limited sense of humor: This is a joke. Admittedly a very mediocre one at best.)
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Bet she won't be wearing those into an airport anytime soon!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Driving your approved mini van, drinking from a government sized beverage container looking around with your Stasi Specs on.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I was quite pleased to see that the tech and the frame are held together by just a torx screw, and you can screw it onto ordinary glasses. It doesn't work very well that way, but at least it means that spectacle users are a small step away from being supported.
Ha ha, who am I kidding, I'm never going to own one of those.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
They found a dime inside when they tore it down?
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To be fair, how would they know until recently that the program was illegal? When the Three Letter Agencies show up with legal documentation that says to do something and to not reveal it to anyone, I don't care who you are, you do it. You may wish to pretend you wouldn't but, frankly, we know better. Everyone complies.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Do you feel elevated now by living the high life of fame vicariously through him? ;) (Only poking at you.)
I, too, got a little excited when my small (like 350 people in the winter) town was main-page news on Fark and the story was three houses up from mine. I am not sure what causes it, I'm sure it wouldn't be the same if I lived in a giant impersonal city, but I'm sure there's some sort of name for it and reasoning behind it.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
>"Goodies found inside include proximity, light and inertial sensors, sound transducers, a TI OMAP CPU, flash, RAM, camera and tiny projection display."
You forgot the camera- the part that makes it such a rude and privacy killing and controversial device. If it really were missing, it would probably fare much better...
One reason why there's a law against murder is because despite it being patently obvious that murder is a bad thing, people will still insist on doing it.
Likewise, when people insist on buying a 100oz bucket of syrupwater despite knowing that it'll lead to cardial malfunction later on which will be hellaciously expensive to fix, and meaning zero productive output from the lardass in question for many months either side of this fix, then there will be a law against it.
The cinemas are told they can't sell you guns as well as not sell you stupidly sized buckets of drink you don't need when you're spending 2 hours sitting on your ass.
But to you, this is buttfuckingly painful to you because "Der Gubment Iv telin me whut to du!!!".
They also tell you not to fuck little kids. But you don't mind that, do you.
I though TI was killing its OMAP division
It is, after Nokia and some others switched to parts from other companies. They may keep making some OMAP parts for a while though (typically how reliable semi companies do things). Going forward Google can obviously switch to another mfg or something like TI's da Vinci line. I never did understand why TI had both the OMAP and da Vinci lines anyway.
They need to make a transparent case version and get Jeri Ryan to model it.
Ever wonder how Google packed all of the Google Glass functionality into a slender eyeglass frame?
I honestly don't know what all that functionality is. what exactly it's good at has so far been a lot of hype and conjecture. AFIK it's really just a secondary display for your cellphone.
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Different focus. The TI OMAP was designed for the smartphone market - the DSP to be used for the radio part. Da Vinci was designed for media players - the DSP used to accelerate video and audio en/decode.
OMAP is shutting down because the smartphone ASIC market is saturated - you've got contenders from Freescale, Broadcom, Marvell and dozens of other Asian fabless firms making application processors and such and cutting margins down (TI OMAPs have never been cheap).
Though, I think they're refocusing on automotive infotainment systems instead - which are more interesting in that you have very long support times (10+ years). Since ASIC manufacturers haven't saturated that market, it's a good opportunity.
I'm surprised it's not smaller!
Yeah, me too - but that's really encouraging. Look at that Synaptics board - it's freaking huge for what it needs to be. It could be instantly half the height, as-is, but it's made to be the same height as the Sandisk flash chip.
That this thing looks like a prototype is great, though. The 'real' versions should be able to easily fit inside 50's nerd / 00's hipster-thickness black plastic frames, which many people find to be actually comfortable to wear.
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Different focus. The TI OMAP was designed for the smartphone market - the DSP to be used for the radio part. Da Vinci was designed for media players - the DSP used to accelerate video and audio en/decode.
That's what the TI reps always told me. I don't buy it - sounds like a marketing dept line where they talk about "applications areas" rather than what the chips do. Drives me nuts. When you look at the detailed guts of OMAP vs. da Vinci there is amazingly little difference. Where there are different specialized peripherals, they could easily adapt da Vinci to OMAP style uses. In fact one of the last "OMAP" parts to be released come from the da Vinci line but was branded an OMAP.
successful troll.
If you're saying that last correction was a troll (perhaps for laughs) then don't bother on Slashdot. People here are so anal that they will correct the smallest thing 27 times, or not realize when a correction is a joke. Ok, I fell for it this time, but yesterday I made a "correction" about mean vs. median and forgot the <irony> tag. Umpteen posters said the correction wasn't significant. No kidding, that was the joke! I "corrected" the correctors by becoming even more absurdly anal. They still didn't get it. Finally I posted that it was a joke, and still no effect.
On Slashdot there are some things you can't parody, because it's indistinguishable from the usual threads.
That huge CPU coupled with the memory and flash disk has to consume arround 200mw, no way it can last more than 1 hour on that tiny battery.
IMHO cramming a 500 MB Linux distro into something that is basically a proxy for google services is a complete waste of resources.
It's the same, but it only applies when the story is about your specific neighborhood.
By the way, is 350 people even enough to be called a "town?" That's not just small, it's tiny -- like a village or a hamlet or something. If I lived in an area that rural, I'd get excited at a mention of anything in the entire county!
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I get that when someone gets overly pedantic it is annoying. However I would argue that it is a result of the fact that we are constantly being bombarded by half truths and or outright lies from every direction. I'm not so naive to suggest that this is a new phenomenon but with the amount of information we are ingesting (and of course outputting) there is bound to be a level of rebellion.
All the more so for those of us who have to work with/within systems that require our output to be correct. Missing a bracket, a bang where you wanted just an equals, or a lower case when it had to be caps? You came up with that value for how much the beam needed to support instead of the correct one? You prescribed drug X instead of drug Y?
And then when your day job of making sure everything was at the five 9's that is expected of you, you have to disseminate bullshit that comes from all sides. That or just unplug which is not very satisfying if you want to feel connected to the society that you are trying to make better.
So I'd say cut those who are sometimes overly anal some slack. They likely are just blowing of some steam.
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It's a legal thing, I understand, and we can even be a "city" if we wanted I suppose. We're an incorporated town, meaning a real town (we even have a post office but no stores) by definition. We swell to 550 (maybe even 1000) during summer and hunting season. We have a town government, we have a voting public, and we have property taxes that pay for it. (Property taxes in unincorporated areas go to the State.) So, yeah, we're a town by definition as I understand it.
We do get excited by little things. Our volunteer fire department is pretty good and the whole town seems to go to the various fires and accidents and stuff. I don't partake in that aspect, I'm an import but I'm fairly well respected and liked though it has taken some time and some goodwill (read expensive) actions on my part. For instance, I own a lot of land and purposefully decided that I'd keep it open to the public and have even had signage indicating the openness and what is expected from those who partake. I have paid for, in whole or in part, a variety of things to improve the town and am generous. That wasn't enough, no - one can't buy acceptance here but it certainly helps, so I've done more. The decision to keep the land open was, I think, one of the best choices I've made in my life. My thinking was, these people have used this land for generations (quite literally) and my ownership doesn't actually give me the right to take away their heritage or health. (My land, it is a lot - seriously, a lot to the point where I'd be a bit embarrassed to say how much - is some of the best hunting land around and the pond and streams all contain fish. People here literally depend on the meat from hunting, and probably fishing, to feed themselves.)
In case you're curious, I'm nestled into the mountains of North Western Maine. We actually do get decent DSL here though I'm responsible for about a half mile of utility poles (which insurance does cover though I had to pay for installation) and the town is not in financial distress actually. The finances are managed frugally, for the most part, though the fire department did opt to get a brand new ladder truck some years ago. I find that a bit mind boggling. The ladder truck is good for either 90' or 110' (I can't recall which but it's absurd given the following) but the tallest structure is just three stories. The kids keep moving away so I don't know how much longer the town will survive. It seems that they move back eventually, well some do, but I think there's still a negative population effect going on. It is a trivial seeming impact, I think the census data from 2000 has us with four more people than we had in 1990 and there are six fewer people in 2010. By the same token there are more hunting and fishing camps than there were so taxes have improved but those people don't count as residents. There was a jump between 1980 and 1990 (according to the census) as they moved from 220 to 350 people. It has been fairly stable since, the numbers are approximates as I don't recall the actual numbers but they're very close. They may be off by a factor of 15.
We have a Union Hall (which is where they host plays and sales and silly stuff). We have a Town Hall though there is only someone working there a few days a month, the town clerk is available in their home most days. We have a huge post office, they closed the old one and built a new one - we don't know why. We have a Grange Hall, the old people go there and knit, grow stuff, and show it off at county fairs. They also host a bean supper on the first Saturday of the month. We have a fairly large Fire Station with three trucks, with mutual aid they respond to any requests for help in a reasonable area (and some not reasonable areas). Attached to the Fire Station is a Community Center/Meeting building. Smaller things are held there and that's where we go to vote now. Town Meetings are still held at the Town Hall however. Some fairly well-to-do folk have moved in, they commute to their jobs in the city. They have children who ride for 45 minutes to a
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I get that when someone gets overly pedantic it is annoying. However ...
You're being pedantic about being pedantic :)
with the amount of information we are ingesting (and of course outputting) there is bound to be a level of rebellion. All the more so for those of us who have to work with/within systems that require our output to be correct. Missing a bracket
Technical people can actually think and communicate in a way that's precise and meaningful. Everybody else is an idiot. At least that's the way I look at it.
I know you're mostly just trolling, but smartphones and pencams have the same risks to public privacy as Google Glass, in terms of being a small portable camera with a radio-based internet connection. (They're actually more risky, because they have better battery life.) What Glass does is give you a display and somewhere to head-mount the camera instead of having to clip it onto your pocket or whatever, plus make it much more obvious that you're using it.
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