How I Lost My Google Glass (and Regained Some Faith In Humanity)

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @02:51AM from the like-a-phone-for-your-face dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "The winter weather made my hands numb. I was distracted, rushed, running late to a meeting. Put those two things together, and it's a recipe for disaster,' Boonsri Dickinson writes in her account of how she lost her Google Glass unit. 'The cab had already gone two blocks before I realized my Google Glass was no longer in my hand. I asked the driver to swing back around to where he picked me up; I retraced my steps along the snowy street to my apartment, looking for my $1,500 device. No luck. Total panic.' The device featured photos, video, email, and other data that, in the wrong hands, could seriously upend her life. Fortunately, the person who found the Glass unit was a.) more interested in returning the device than wrecking her existence, and b.) engaged in quite a bit of digital detective work to track her down (with some help from Google). 'The device holds more than enough data to make me nervous about the possible voyeuristic invasion of my privacy, and the fear of the thought that the media connected to my Glass would possibly end up online, somewhere, cached forever in a Google search,' she concluded. But the saga also reset some of her faith in humanity."

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BuzzDot...I mean SlashFeed, I mean UpNerds by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-12 02:54 · Score: 3, Interesting

I see dice is hiring the same 'writers' that work at those new bastions of internet journalism.
This article has not restored my faith in Slashdot
1. Re:BuzzDot...I mean SlashFeed, I mean UpNerds by shadowrat · 2014-02-12 08:25 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  yeah. she writes as though she has the impression that the guy was so altruistic returning her glass. Really, he probably saw it belonged to some cute chick and probably thought he might get some action for helping her.
Talk about Knockout game.. by duckgod · 2014-02-12 03:30 · Score: 4, Interesting

Got an invite to purchase Google Glass last week. I was excited and had almost made the purchase before my coworker made the observation that if I wear them anywhere in downtown Rochester NY there is a good chance I will be mugged. I guess the moral of the story is until they make it not obvious that I am wearing $1500 on my head that this is probably an impractical accessory for anyone living where crime is at all prevalent.