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Patent Filing Reveals Samsung's Designs For Google Glass Competitor
rjmarvin writes "A South Korean patent filing, complete with memos and device designs has let the cat out of the bag about Samsung's new head-mounted wearable device to compete with Google Glass, two days after Microsoft was found to be testing a similar prototype. The device isn't wireless; in fact it has an attached USB extension to plug into and serve as an extension of a smartphone. The device is categorized as 'sports glasses' to 'take phone calls and listen to music during workouts.' The filing gives an overhead, front, and side view of the proposed device, another entry into the rapidly expanding and increasingly competitive wearables marketplace."
People act overly reserved around recording devices; wearing one of these makes you the death of the party.
Hopefully they'll just sit on the patent as a community service.
Judging from the drawings, I don't see how the earphones would actually connect to ones ears.
you call this competing?!
here's a real competitor!
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I'd much prefer to wear a cell wristband than dangle a cord from a watch.
Who uses watches, anyway?
That's so last century.
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Given the size of the smart watch, I'm pretty sure I stumbled across a Samsung Glasses prototype.
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I hope this is as stylish and subtle as your smart watch turned out to be!
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Seriously, the only useful thing Google Glass does is act as a piss poor GoPro that costs over 3 times as much, only allows you to record a few seconds of video at low resolution with shitty optics.
Google Glass is such a ridiculous failure its not even funny.
Anyone who has one knows how pointless it is.
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Now they have another product to fudge the benchmarks on. And they will probably also hire a bunch of shills to plant bogus reviews about it. SHAME ON SAMSUNG!
Thank you so much Samsung team. I was waiting this Google Glass competitor. It is really great user friendly and smooth.
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Slavishly copying, so that they can embrace, extend, and extinguish?
"The device is categorized as 'sports glasses' to 'take phone calls and listen to music during workouts.' "
Uhhh.. won't a $2 pair of ear buds do the same?
... it has become more obvious to the masses that not all nerds where glasses, so tech companies are making it so that all nerds will actually be wearing glasses!
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Google glass is stupid. The first guy that gets caught taking salacious pictures with it will doom the project forever.
And no female will EVER wear Google glass on purpose.
Just give it up.
I'm usually not really bitchy about patents. I even tolerate software patents as long as they actually describe something truly novel, after all everything can be described as a set of mathematical equations. But what is novel about that? Earplugs and phone calls? If that passes does it mean that if a decide to "invent" any existing device, but with integrated earplugs and capable of making phone calls, I can patent it?
another entry into the rapidly expanding and increasingly competitive wearables marketplace that no customer is interested in
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I used to work for a Samsung R&D lab in the US. Each lab had an annual quota for a number of patents to be filed, and if an employee filed a patent, they got a bonus. Because of this, we'd have meetings a few times a year where everyone got herded into a conference room, and our boss would say, "okay, what can we patent?" It was never "let's make a strategic business decision on what people want to buy, start making a product, and patent the technology we'll need to make it great." It was "think of any damn thing even tangentially related to technology, and let's find an angle on how to make it specific enough that we can get a patent filing out of it."
Basically what I'm saying is that Samsung's patents are in no way a roadmap for future products. Our patent filings were vetted by a legal team before the application was made, but we used to throw down entirely ridiculous ideas, just to get the bonus and meet the quota. I spent a lot of time googling through the US patent database looking for older patents we could throw a "on a mobile device" at the end of, just to make it different enough to get the filing.
So how long will it be before Apple starts complaining that the lenses are rectangles with rounded corners and they OWN that shape?
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