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Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude'
An anonymous reader writes "One of the biggest worries about the rise of wearable computing is the ease with which random strangers will be able to record your actions without your knowing. Right now, it's pretty easy to tell if somebody's holding up their cellphone to take some video. But when everybody's wearing Google Glass, or something similar, it will become harder to tell. This has led to preemptive bans on Glass in certain places. Now, Google has published a list of Do's and Don'ts to tell Glass users how they should behave politely in public. Do: ask for permission before recording people. Don't: ignore the world around you, expect that people won't notice, or wear it during a cage fight. Most importantly, don't 'be creepy or rude.' Google says, 'Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends.'"
Working on a ranged degausser for any glass user pointing it in my direction.
Creepy and rude nerds are their target market. How's that going to work?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Don't be a glasshole.
Google should have included an easily identifiable "lens cap", which most people could leave on "most of the time"!
Or
Google could have made the camera a "snap" on device, not something "always there!".
I won't trust anyone wearing it to not to be recording!
While the cellphone and Glass are not the same tech, they do seem to share similar bad habits (ie making you tune out the world around you, especially when crossing a street) in how people may ultimately use. So, maybe a similar list should be made to address the do's and dont's of cellphones, maybe in app form
I expect that this initiative will be 136.24% more efficient than the already foolproof 'don't be evil' mandate that Google follows...
Step 1: Don't tell anyone you're a cyborg .....
Step 2: Creep is for the Zerg and project scopes
Step 3:
Step 4: Prof...err Assimilation!
Why are people mad about Google Glass users when there's a 100% certainty that if they're in public they have a.) No legal expectation of privacy, and b.) They're already being monitored by several CCTV cameras?
considers manners and politeness to be passe', and where bureaucratic rules and regulations are the norms.
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Mostly random stuff.
It will be used to make porn. It will be used to game casinos. It will be used to record cops. Someone will use it to case a place for a robbery. It will be used in divorces. It will be used to document various offences as decreed by Jezebel. It will be used by police to enable face recognition of people like they do licence plates.
What the fuck do they think will happen?
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
It's very smart of Google to recognize that "Glasshole" is an inevitable slang term to be applied to some (most?) Glass users. They're trying to get ahead of the term and define it to apply to only the worst kinds of users.
Still, they face an uphill battle if they hope to create a positive public image for Glass. If only 1 in 10,000 Glass users behaves in a socially unacceptable way, that one person will be the focus of endless sensationalist news coverage.
I don't think people who have friends need Google Glasses. I for one would never wear one. Can you imagine yourself wearing that at the dinner table? At dinner with a date at a restaurant? In the bathroom? (where's Bob? -- He went to the bathroom with Google Glass--Ewwww!). Even at the library, or at the park, or at the mall. No, too creepy, even for me.
In other news, Baidu has told the users of its Baidu Eye that they can do whatever they want with hardware they have legally purchased. If Google trys to restrict their glass users, someone else will quickly step into the market to take their place.
Guys, just look in the mirror. If you are:
Ugly: women will say you're creepy.
Talking: women will say you're rude.
The lesson is be handsome and be quiet. You're welcome.
Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot.
Here's one. Google glass should be banned from public use for any possible facial recognition or for identity recognition recording. It would be fine for distanced recording of events or personal activities and getaways. Anyone staring at me with them on will get an equally unpleasant surprise.
Has no one thought to just put a little forward facing LED on the damn thing that lights up when it's recording, so people know? Every old video camera I've owned has had a little red light to show when it's recording. How did no one make this connection?
Humorous that Google is having to tell people to not be creepy or rude. They've finally woken up to the fact that Glass is inherently antisocial, just like all those people who hover over their phones in public as they do constant texting/facebook updates/emails. If someone's gonna do that at a dinner out then they might as well have stayed at home on the bed eating dorito's and watching some mindless flick on tv.
Commonsense bottom line: If you're wearing Glass when you're supposed to be doing something social, then it should be taken off. Everyone should understand in their guts what a social gaffe it is to wear a rig that could be constantly recording while doing something in a supposedly-relaxing social situation - like a party. If they don't then they come out on the lower end of the bell-curve for empathy and on the higher end of the bell-curve for the massively socially inept.
Fuck you asshole.
Don't tell me what to do, Google!
George Zimmerman or Trayvon martin had been using Google Glass at the time.
Think of all the political disruption we would have avoided.
People driving cars routinely use their phones and that's against the law, what makes you think Google "asking you to be nice" is going to do anything.
Just watch how much trouble and misery Glass and the Glassholes are going to cause.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Google with their insistence on a camera-based social-media augmented-reality creepy-invasive experience is going to set back the cause of direct human-computer interaction by years.
Honestly I don't want a camera in my "glass". I want a link to something like my desktop computing resources. It's an intimate experience between me and the computer, not between my computer and the environment around me. Sure there are some cute apps you can do with the camera, but the creepy factor is going to make people as self-conscious and obvious as a Segway rider (and we know how that turned out).
When I can PAY for a device that has MY interests at heart rather than the latest data power grab by Google then I'll be interested.
Connect me with the Internet then get the fuck out of the way. I don't need you to mediate every interaction I have, not only with information from the net but with the real world around me.
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Bring it boys.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Like calling us commenters/submitters an audience when we provide the content, you assholes?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Be rude. Because this idea is stupid.
You think in 15 years everyone won't be recording all the time? They will be.
Whether it is Google Contact Lense, Apple Retina Display Phone or Acme Eyeballs --- there are going to be cameras everywhere.
So let us adjust.
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Ultimately, technology is going to progress far enough for the form factor of this thing to be indiscernible to all but the most attentive of individuals. Places will be able to politely ask that patrons not use such devices, but unless they install xray and full-body scanners at the entrances to them, I'm not terribly sure what they are going to do about users of such technology when they don't even know for sure who even has it on their person, let alone who is actively using it.. We are, I think, less than 10 years away from this.
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I hope that there's a dedicated force watching the video that sends the owners of google glasses tickets for speeding - or whatever other accidental infractions of the law they do on a day to day basis.
Want to live under an Orwellian 1984? Then hopefully you die under an Orwellian 1984.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' ... and then they reminded users that they'll be watching so they'll know.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
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We'll pass laws to prevent the sale to the general public if they lack a anti-concealment feature (light, color, shape, whatever). Police, of course, will be free to use them. So don't worry about that.
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Google tells Glass users not to use Glass.
Everyone (besides me) that actually has glass right now - show of hands...? Great, thanks. The rest of you - STFU & bite me.
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Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Don't use it.
""But when everybody's wearing Google Glass, or something similar, it will become harder to tell."" [that statement is the oxymoron] How would one be able to know when a person is wearing a 24-7 recording device? That's a tough question to answer...
sarcasm.
This device has nothing to do with nerds, it has to do with lazy people who want to cheat and have a device attached to there eye to prevent them from wasting energy to use a damn hand sized phone. Going the quoted statement above. What would be the difference since if you own a phone, its pretty much tracking everything you do anyway? So now your worried because someone else can video tape you without you truly being aware! The privacy issues with phones, the tracking ads, apps that are collecting data on you seems not to be getting thrown into this discussion.
Yes you can tell when someone maybe capturing video with a phone as opposed to a head set that has no identifiable way of letting you know it is recording you. Something as simple as an Blue LED put into the frame would be a way for anyone to notice if a person wearing Google Glass is recording video or taking pictures.
I remember some states passed a law that any digital camera must make that clicking sound when it's taking a photo. How about a blinking light on the glasses when it's recording?
Not a big fan of new laws, so I'm not sure how I feel about the idea.
When mobiles came out there where similar rules to be said. People where making fun at people seemingly talking to them selves in public. Now days you can seem a whole dinner table swiping away and that's the old people !
When the zoo animals walk up and smash you in the back of the head and take your glass, they'll get to see all the freaky shit you've been doing with your nerd glasses. Not only will you become a victim once, you won't dare report it for fear of what you've been recording goes PUBLIC.
1. don't buy it
2. get a life outside of social networks and the internet
You haven't been on youtube lately have you?
There is a great fun 1-hour TV show called Black Mirror - The Entire History of You which deals with what it would be like to be able to record every minute of your private life and review it at any stage. Didn't have entirely positive things to say. Worth a watch one evening - might temper your view?
I assumed that when google glass is recording, a noticeable LED is lit on the front. is this the case? Similarly, recording isn't on by default, but rather turned on by the user at specific intervals. Yes / no?
A truly scary situation would be if recording were always on, and it was always capturing / filling / refreshing a 8GB buffer or something like that. This would mean at any point you could look at your glass and flip through the last 10-15mins of video. This would mean that whenever a glass person looks at you, they have recorded you.
Can anybody confirm?
DO:
Do provide a small plastic lens cover which slides across your peep-a-specs when not in use!
Right now, it's pretty easy to tell if somebody's holding up their cellphone to take some video.
Yeah except that's not how people discretely take footage. Google is not the first company to introduce a camera into something wearable. There a literally hundreds of products out there that include wearable spy cameras. Yet people are freaking out about a device which has many other purposes, not to mention a shithouse battery life when recording.
It's very easy to spot a Google Glass viewer who records everything, they stop every few minutes to put their glasses on charge.
...with its obsession for spying every personal detail of every individual of the world with every possible means and gathering the collected data into their archives forever. The only difference between Google glass and all the other products of Google is that glass makes the espionage physically evident.
While I can understand that people have a problem with being recorded everywhere and by everyone, why has this never been a problem with those camera sunglasses you can get in your "toys for spies and other grown up kids" shop for years now?
These are actually designed to a) record more than a few moments of video and b) to do that hiden without arousing any suspiscion. And c) they are available for everyone for $30
And all of a sudden everyone is up in arms that people could buy a $1500 device that can't record longer than a few minutes and is highly visible to make SECRET (or at least unnoticed) video recordings? Come on guys...
The usual argument is the one about the slippery slope that the introduction of wearable video cameras will lead to ubiquitous video surveillance, but I can't see how that could lead there when wearable, hidden cameras is actually where we're comming from! Wearble cameras getting are getting bigger, more noticeable and less recording capacity and suddenly everyone is WORRIED?!?
bickerdyke
Don't be creepy says the creepiest company on the web, spying on people worldwide to a degree that I'm sure the NSA envies.
Google analytics > Google glass, pot kettle black.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Don't buy Google Glass. It's inherently creepy and rude, at least within a social setting.
When was the last time one of your colleagues uploaded a video of you from a surveillance camera to youtube? Never? Would you agree to it if colleagues told you that they keep videos of you taken from surveillance cameras for their own pleisure on their home PCs?
Google with their insistence on a camera-based social-media augmented-reality creepy-invasive experience is going to set back the cause of direct human-computer interaction by years.
Honestly I don't want a camera in my "glass". I want a link to something like my desktop computing resources. It's an intimate experience between me and the computer, not between my computer and the environment around me. Sure there are some cute apps you can do with the camera, but the creepy factor is going to make people as self-conscious and obvious as a Segway rider (and we know how that turned out).
When I can PAY for a device that has MY interests at heart rather than the latest data power grab by Google then I'll be interested.
Connect me with the Internet then get the fuck out of the way. I don't need you to mediate every interaction I have, not only with information from the net but with the real world around me.
G.
If it weren't Google it would be some other company because while you don't want this functionality there are no doubt many who do.
I would like the functionality that you describe - but I have no compunction whatsoever about recording with the same device, my son playing sports, for example.
The technology is there and like any other technology there are good uses and bad.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Google says, 'Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends.'"
Funny, that sounds like me at any social function, and that's without wearing Glass :-(
...Now, Google has published a list of Do's and Don'ts to tell Glass users how they should behave politely in public....
... then google glass is worse than I had thought.
I was almost in a head-on collision last night with a Prius(!) that just *had* to be in front of that truck.
Just as he got back into the other lane in the nick of time, I noted he was still talking on his phone.
It sounds like you just want a monitor strapped to your face. That isn't going to be very useful. Say you are on holiday and see a sign or menu that you want to translate. If you don't have a camera to do OCR your options are either try to read it out (good luck if you don't read Chinese) or "type" it using the touchpad on the side of your glasses.
Say you see a product you are interested in and want to see some reviews. You can try to enter the product name into a google search by speaker or "typing", looking like a total dick in the process, or you can let the camera read the barcode/OCR the product name.
Maybe you are at a restaurant with some friends and want to split the bill three ways, adding a 5% tip. No need to get the calculator out, just look at the bill and your glasses figure it all out.
Even augmented reality has very obvious real word uses that many people would benefit from. How about sat-nav you don't need to look away from the road for, or that overlays directions on the ground as you walk around? How about a real-world AdBlock+ that blacks out the annoying billboards and messages bombarding you?
If all you want is a screen just buy a tablet. The touch UI will be a much better fit for what you want anyway.
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They wouldn't necessarily concealed... just not necessarily obvious.
And the reason for their inobviousness would have far less to do with actually wanting to hide that one is using them and much more to do with simple comfort and ergonomics... something that a person can be comfortable with wearing them an entire day, probably putting it on in the morning and taking it off at night, like clothes.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Don't confuse a media frenzy with reality. I see only a tiny group rage online, the types who never dare to do anything anyway because their courage is only online.
How often do you see people working with a GoPro or similar camera and nobody minds, in fact most people want to be IN the shot?
I see no huge outcry but that don't won't do for the media, they need headlines. See the number of incident with the google street car. Number of incidents world wide, have a dozen. Reports in the news, WW3 just started.
Maybe I am just so used to tourists filming that frankly I don't care. I try to pass by on whoever is being filmed by whatever person but solely not to ruin the shot. So I am on somebody's holiday snaps. Big fucking whoop.
I find it funny that people who always want the police to be more accountable start crying when the police annouce they are trying out google glass. Guess your claim you were abused wouldn't hold up if there was actual video evidence of the non-event would it.
Ludites just make better headlines I guess.
that cyclists, especially commuters, have been strapping GoPros and the like to their helmets for a while now, and they don't try to conceal them in any way, hoping that motorists will behave better on the road, knowing that they are being videorecorded.
So a company is telling purchasers what they can and cannot do with the hardware after they purchased it? Are we talking about Apple here or Google?
"Right now, it's pretty easy to tell if somebody's holding up their cellphone to take some video."
No, it isn't pretty easy - they could be taking a picture or just looking at their phone.
Also, if Google has to actually tell people to not be creepy or rude, it's a bad product from the start and that they should scrap it.
I really like this idea. It provides a feedback mechanism to those of us around the glasshole so we know when to duck for cover.
A real kill button unhackable. Otherwise, we need to treat it as a fire arm. Cause some videos are more damaging than bullets. :-)
You know what? It's coming and there's not a single fucking thing you can do about it.
I'm going to be that person. My camera will be on all the time. I will be running a face searching/recognition app at all times and within seconds I will have heads-up information on everyone I see. Before you even see me I will know your name, the names of your friends, where you live, what your habits are, and what you had for fucking lunch.
And I will log every second of it so I can browse my day's interactions while I'm sipping coffee at starbucks.
Why? Because you already put all that information up on facebook you dumb shit.
Google glass is just the last piece in the puzzle. If not google, then someone else. You probably wont even know I'm fucking doing it anyway because my tie clip is really a camera that's talking to my smartphone via bluetooth 5.0 (Or whatever)
Knowledge is power.
They wouldn't necessarily concealed... just not necessarily obvious.
And the reason for their inobviousness would have far less to do with actually wanting to hide that one is using them and much more to do with simple comfort and ergonomics... something that a person can be comfortable with wearing them an entire day, probably putting it on in the morning and taking it off at night, like clothes.
The reason doesn't matter. You simply ban them if they are not obvious or have some pre-defined feature to make people aware you are using them (i.e. for contacts red iris color, or a forehead tattoo, something like that). The police state does NOT want citizens to have always on cameras when they interact with officers of the law. So your privacy is saved by the all seeing, all wise government overlords.
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"Everybody" won't be wearing Google glasses because I never will.
These could serve as a better tool to capture transactions than hidden cameras. It would be more convenient, the person/groups on the other side know the transaction's being recorded and make them think twice.
Maybe once something like this becomes more commonplace, the authorities catch on and ban its use in official surroundings. I
nstead, what would be better is, like a 3D movie where the glasses are provided at the entry to the theatre, these kinds of glasses are provided to anyone entering an office, and returned on the way out. If the patron has any grievances, it's immediately available for recall.
Nice bunch of lads, unless either
a) You're with the wrong HA chapter
b) You're going to pick a fight with them
otherwise, the pubs they frequent are often the safest pubs you'll get to because nobody who wants to be an arsehole will go there.
And trust me, if you decide you want to punch me in the face because I'm wearing google glasses, then prepare to wake up to me hogtying you and your family to their beds and setting the house on fire.
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I sometimes wonder if Google Glass is going to be another CueCat. Somebody thought it was a really neat idea and pushed it hard, but nobody else thought it was a neat idea and it died.
People view Google Glass as creepy and weird. That's hard sell, even for Google.
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The only way they can avoid being creepy or rude is to not wear them at all. Staring at someone in public is offending. Doing it while wearing google glass is ten times worse. It's possible that even I could be driven to violence over it, and I'm a pretty peacible guy.
Proverbs 21:19
Since non-creepy/abusive corporations and governments won't be looking, and since most people you interact with daily won't be creepy, your assertions as to who you should trust are inverted.
I'm waiting for the apple iPatch.
walking right up to people and putting a camera in their face? Nah, that's not creepy at all.
Has nobody else noticed the site is fake? The url is https://sites.google.com/site/.... Google proper wouldn't use something that was sites.google.com. The proper glass site is glass.google.com or http://www.google.com/glass. So no google didn't use the term glasshole some random person who stole their theme/style and is trying to pass themself off as google did. This just all seems sketchy as hell and bothers me that two major sites are passing this off as "real"
Good on Google to attempt to combat rampant bad manners using their tech. Unfortunately I don't think it'll work. Tact and social graces have been dead since long before Google even existed
Bad to all you brain-dead cave dwellers who are so damn hung up on this piece of tech somehow taking your picture that you think physical violence is ok. Here's a news flash for you bright sparks:
1. Nobody in the public sphere gives a fuck about you. Not me, not them, not anybody. Don't believe me? Go walk down a sidewalk in Manhattan and start randomly complaining to passers by about oh, cameras or something.
2. You're already on quite a few cameras, whether you're in public or on private property. Lots of them are manned by underpaid staff whose only bright spot to the day is uploading footage they find amusing to social media sites.
3. You assaulting someone who happens to possess a piece of hardware you don't like does, in fact, make you a criminal in a whole lot of jurisdictions. As opposed to your glass wearing nemesis, whose mere inclusion of you in the background of his photo of something else is either not typically culpable, or at the most a slap on the wrist.
I personally have a use case that I'd like to try Glass out for. It does involve wearing them in public. However, I do possess sufficient tact to remove them when interacting with someone. Were I to be assaulted for possessing them, or threatened with such, my response would be very much the same as to an attempted mugger. Being that I do reside in a country with rather widespread firearms ownership, engaging in this sort of self expression could earn you a well deserved perforation.
So far it seems as if the number of assholes wearing Glass are vastly outnumbered by the assholes who consider physically assaulting someone for such to be acceptable.
Perhaps Google should stop being creepy and rude by mining people's data and selling it to others.
We all know human nature rises to to the top like creme when you need to count on it.
I think history repeatedly bears that out...
Perhaps I'm being too trusting or too simple. If I decide to wear a computer, it will be to help me/inform me. What's that building over there? How do I get to "X"? from here? What's the weather gonna be? That place looks interesting - what kind of reviews is it getting? Where's the nearest "X"? When does "X" open/close? Sure, things that can be done from your smartphone, but no tying-up your hand(s). Why would I want to record what some slob is doing? Unless I 'capture' something newsworthy/illegal - I've got better things to do than snoop. Am I supposed to presume every single glasshole is out to watch me? I'm interested in staying informed (connected) & to improve how I move through life. Recording someone is boring & childish & just so you know, I've got little problem with the Police using them - they need better, timely tools. If you don't trust them to handle such technology correctly, work on improving the rules for security organizations & ensuring the accuracy of the info they're accessing.
While many people are interested in a device that interacts with the world around them, I doubt that many people want every interaction to be funneled through, and dependent on, Google (or any other data siphon). The MO of "cloud" companies seems to be all about unnecessarily inserting themselves into every activity as a creepy middleman.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
Pedantic nerdy self-correction: It's not really "cloud" companies per se that do this, but "internet of things" companies and the intersection of the two categories.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
"Don't be creepy or rude"; we'll be monitoring all your email, notes, video and audio to ensure that you're nice :P
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So basically, ban everything that can be used to augment and improve the human memory beyond what is feasible without instrumentality unless it is visible?
What does that do for people who will some day have chips installed in their brains? The first generation of which will doubtlessly be for medical purposes, such as perhaps preventing dementia in old age, but as the technology advances, such implants would likely ultimately end up offering a mnemonic advantage over unassisted memory.
If you think that future is too far away to worry about, you are probably mistaken. I give it maybe as much as 20 years. Tops.
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So basically, ban everything that can be used to augment and improve the human memory beyond what is feasible without instrumentality unless it is visible?
What does that do for people who will some day have chips installed in their brains? The first generation of which will doubtlessly be for medical purposes, such as perhaps preventing dementia in old age, but as the technology advances, such implants would likely ultimately end up offering a mnemonic advantage over unassisted memory.
If you think that future is too far away to worry about, you are probably mistaken. I give it maybe as much as 20 years. Tops.
If it can record and play back, yes. As for how? I already covered that: See "Forehead tattoo".
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If I want to record you candidly I'm not going to use Glass. Everybody seems to expect Glass users to be so interested in violating their privacy. The poor people are probably just checking their text messages!
If I want to record you and I don't want you to know about it I am going to be sneakier than that. It isn't going to be a camera that is out front on the side of my head for you to see. Probably I will put my cellphone in a holster and put a little hole where the camera is. You will never see me coming.
Or.. for a pointless challenge, maybe I will get a bit hackier with it. How about a Raspberry Pi in a mint tin in my pocket. I can run a wire up my shirt from the Raspi to a tiny camrea module. Why does that one button on my shirt look a little different than the others? Better put on your tinfoil hat! The whole setup would probably cost me less than $50 off of Deal Extreme or Ebay.
But I am not going to do this. And that guy with Glass over there probably isn't recording you either. Why? You aren't that interesting. You are just a mama's basement living technophobe mouthing off about somebody else's toy. Probably because you can't have one yourself. Get over it!
I don't think tattooing the elderly is going to go over particularly well.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
While many people are interested in a device that interacts with the world around them, I doubt that many people want every interaction to be funneled through, and dependent on, Google (or any other data siphon). The MO of "cloud" companies seems to be all about unnecessarily inserting themselves into every activity as a creepy middleman.
On that we agree completely.
I want a device that records. I do not want a company collecting it behind me.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Given the size, tape would not be necessary; they would just break the connection of the LED.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
For a device that has still yet to reach the public at large, it's odd to see such a document from *anyone*.
That said, it'd be kind of nice to see this at least be available at large to shake these kinds of issues out.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Mindless comments like yours make me sick!
Video recording someone without permission happens ALL the time now and NO, it's not easy to tell/know if it's happening!
Idiots like you seem to like to hate on Google Glass for some unknown reason! Maybe you can't afford the price tag and are jealous of those that can??
Grow up and welcome to the future!
So, Google Glass' killer app is... videotaping? Because that doesn't seem very killer to me.
I could see this as helpful for soldiers, security guards, students (scratch that, too expensive), maybe some huge factory type workers, um...?
Pretty much the same demographic as the Segway. Pretty much fail.
In other words: "computers" don't sell themselves; software does.
So, what are the apps running on Google Glass? Windows 8? Videos of stranger's urinating? Anything?
In other, other words: if there is any marketing whatsoever going into this effort, it's failing.
I don't think tattooing the elderly is going to go over particularly well.
If we don't the terrorists will win.
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