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With No Guidance From Google, Makers Creating Own Glass Accessories
Nerval's Lobster writes "Google remains tight-lipped about its roadmap for Google Glass, and its population of early-adopter 'Explorers' remains small. Nonetheless, a growing collection of engineers, designers, and artists are creating their own accessories and add-ons for Glass — some of them useful, others totally whimsical. For example, there's Brooklyn designer Todd Blatt, who's relying on a 3D printer to churn out Glass accessories such as tiny flower-pots and pencil holders (not so useful) as well as a plastic camera cover (useful, at least for anyone in the vicinity who likes their privacy). Small firms such as GPOP and Remotte are likewise exploring how to best skin, dangle, screw, and attach hardware to Glass that makes it operate in whole new ways. (The avenues for exploration have opened up with the second generation of Google Glass, which includes a small screw in the right arm that can double as a mounting point for new tech.) Google seems to have no choice but to let this growing ecosystem thrive, even if some of the modifications (such as camera covers) don't necessarily suit its interests. But will the company actually say something about it?"
I long for the days when technology was driven by real needs, and not just by pointless hipster desires.
Earlier advances brought us some real gains. I remember when the PC first came out. They allowed for a lot of tedious work to be done much more efficiently. They allowed us to do marvelous things that we couldn't do before.
That type of practical technology is on its way out these days. Now all we get are hipster-driven shitfests. Whoop dee doo, you can attach a pencil holder to your privacy-invading glasses. That's really fucking great, son.
I really do wish that the computing industry would dump all of the hipsters who have ruined it. Silicon Valley is a shadow of its former self, new technological developments are more about hipster vanity than utility, and privacy has been shit upon and flushed down the toilet by hipsters.
Get off my lawn with your goddamn hipster glasses. Thanks.
They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?
Anyone who wears Google Glass into a restroom, a locker room, or a strip club (I'm sure there are many other locations that will be named) without a camera cover is asking for trouble. I've posted about this on Google+ and been jeered at for my trouble. My response? Fools rush in...
I am looking forward to using Glass myself. I want to use it for checklists (leaving the house), shopping lists, GPS navigation, and I'm sure I'll find many other uses after I finally get one. But I'll have a cover (or two).
...they'll probably make it as far as iPhone accessory makers have. The most successful will have strictly protective or ergonomic function. Any hardware that attempts to interface with the device itself will be: 1. For a tiny niche market (scientific equipment, RC transmitter, etc...) 2. Rapidly adopted and replaced by branded version (game controllers) 3. Fought by firmware updates till it's useless (ethernet adapter, iPhone interface cable (that would be interesting), etc...)
Nobody's going to spend their day wiggling their finger around on their ear.
The problem is that the "Remotte" is basically trying to cram everything into one hard to hold candybar with 15 flashing lights (wtf), when what we really need is something shaped more like a Wii nunchuck.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
My question is what does Google, in the current form, expect the glasses to be used for. In the current incarnation, it is the equivalent of wearing mirrors on the top of your shoes. Releasing them without some alternative storyline was a mistake.
Now, when these become available I can see buying a pair and putting prescription lenses in them. OTOH, it does show that Google does not really know what to do with a new product. Everything else it has done in the consumer space has been a refinement or copy. Search using graph theory, phones that were open and now less so, a languishing Office app. What it does with Glasses will determine the future. It could be really good, if they release as a tool instead of a toy.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Like watches, these should be used to charge the battery.
Captain Picard to the bridge! Captain, we’ve got a problem with the warp core, or the phase inducers – or some other damn thing
Maybe they can make a face shield attachment accessory to deaden the blows of the punches they deserve for wearing google glass in public. Glassholes.
Diverting all 9 volts to my deflector shields! The glasses, they do nothing!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
And the people who would actually resort to such measures deserve being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for assault.
Since we're talking about justice, after all...
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I want to see an attachment with a fist which automatically punches the user in the face every few minutes. This would save onlookers the trouble and would thus be the most useful accessory possible.
Do you really care so much about how other people look?
I never claimed to care how he looked.
Trolling is a art,
Revo. Fucking. Lution.
2014 will be the new year 1. We are now Year 1 3D.
Why should a person who's minding their own business actually care if they happen to incidentally be in a video that somebody recorded near them? I don't see people jumping out of the way to avoid or threatening to assault people holding up cell phones when they are actively taking photographs or video in public. People just go on doing what they do.
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Diverting all 9 volts to my deflector shields! The glasses, they do nothing!
The quote is "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!".
It is not "The goggles! They do nothing!".
I see this one posted incorrectly more often than I see it posted correctly.
and other "add-ons" in the same spirit?
I print, therefore I am.
The only "justice" (always a loaded term) in this scenario is the would-be "assaulters" not getting caught.
That might be harder than it sounds, since google glass *is* a camera, after all.
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Why should a person who's minding their own business actually care if they happen to incidentally be in a video that somebody recorded near them?
The person could be in witness protection, or have moved across country to escape an abusive relationship. If a glasshole films them and put the video on youtube with a tagged location, that person might now be able to be found by someone that wants to hurt them.
The first time I read that I thought it said someone had put a screw in their right arm to attach accessories
then I realized they were talking about the right arm of the glasses not of the person.
I would pay for an accessory that interferes with the electronics in google glass anytime it is on within range of me!
Did you report him for odd behaviour around children? I'm not saying that all Google Glass users are paedophiles, but there does seem to be a strong correlation.
That's just as likely to happen with somebody pointing a cell phone to take a picture. How often does it happen?
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I see people walking around or avoiding people using there cell phones for video or photos all the time. There are many VALID reasons for not wanting to be recorded ranging from witness protection and hiding from people that pose a real physical threat to personal embaressment, cultural or religious beliefs or simply not wanting some asshole putting video or photos of them on the internet.
My god, this is revolutionary!
... will work well, until Google has access to a nice range of viable examples, copies/buys a few and kills the rest off by relocating that screw/updating the EULA.
Yep, a nice pool of free-of-charge designers, which can also be discarded at a whim.
Is it really asking too much that I don't want a fucking camera in my face (or the uncertainty whether someone is filming, since every device that people are addicted to these days has at least one camera) when I step outside? Glass or flip phone, it doesn't matter, it is equally irritating, obnoxious, and sketchy.
Why should a person who's minding their own business
Because they don't want someone else minding it.
actually care if they happen to incidentally be in a video that somebody recorded near them?
Why shouldn't they?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Camera glasses/buttons/ties/hats are 1990s technology. Get over it. Just because the camera has removed the superfluous intermediary step of connecting a USB cable or inserting a micro-SD card does not make this very-conspicuous-among-"covert-video-recording-devices" technology a sudden game-changer of epic privacy invading proportions. They have done literally NOTHING that obnoxious-facebook-users haven't been doing with photo-tags for the better half of a decade.
The next version of google glass will have a "video recording" light. GUARANTEED. It's a beta release of experimental hardware. Get over yourselves! Nobody gives a shit about you. Anyone who is getting butt-hurt is deserving of their house being wallpapered in U MAD memes.
Half the cops walking the streets are wearing technology of a similar vein and(unlike google) law enforcement have the stated mission of putting you in prison. You (the general public) goose-stepped your way in to a police state and now that the technology exists at a low enough cost to be ubiquitous & to allow Joe Sixpack to "watch the watchers" with ease you dumb shits have invented the world "glassholes" to justify your gadget envy,
People who dodge or walk around people taking video or photos aren't typically doing so because they have any kind of paranoia about who is taking picture or video that they might be in or what they might do with it, they are usually doing so out of respect for the person taking said picture or video, because presumably the thing being pointed at is what is interesting the person, and people who are simply walking by. That tends to happen only in the foreground, however... most people are unconcerned if they happen to be in the periphery or background of a video or photo taken at a public place because they have the sense to realize that they aren't generally going to be important enough to the people who are going to see the picture or video to worry about who they were or what they were doing.
People who are trying to hide from people who pose a physical threat to them are the exception, and not the norm. I do maintain that it's still not worth being physically violent, however. And even the law would agree.
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In before the cyborgs? Nope, we cyborgs have been around for years, long before Google Glass. I became a cyborg in 2006, I know several other cyborgs. One guy I know is both cyborg and chimera.
Free Martian Whores!
I see people walking around or avoiding people using there cell phones for video or photos all the time.
You really shouldn't have dropped out of school at such a young age. Go back and get your GED.