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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?"
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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).
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.
...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
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.
We had a family cruise last week. There was a glasshole walking around the ship for the duration. Why? WHY?!
Trolling is a art,
Somebody please make a self-destruct system like in mission impossible that explodes during first wearing.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
No, he just cares about being recorded by somebody. Because everybody knows that Google Glass is meant to be used for 24/7 recording of people, then posting that to YouTube or sharing it directly with the NSA, who uses that information to decide when they have the best opportunity to assassinate you for objecting to Big Brother control in an online posting.
Revo. Fucking. Lution.
2014 will be the new year 1. We are now Year 1 3D.
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 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!
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.
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,