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Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass?

Posted by timothy on from the well-are-you-a-stone-thrower? dept.

lunatick writes "I put in my application for Google Glass as a joke. I never figured I would be selected. Well in less than one week I got my invite to buy Google Glass. My main hold back is the $1500 price tag for a device that just seems to be a camera and navigation aid. Does anyone in the /. community have Google Glass and can they give some advice to the rest of us considering it?"

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  1. Re:Are you a creepy guy who wants to video tape pp by vidnet · · Score: 5, Informative

    You shouldn't try to find $1500 worth of value in the current product. If there was, they'd be selling it to everyone.

    Take a look at a list of apps and see if this is a technology you'd find fascinating, and decide based on whether you have the time and resources to invest into exploring it.

    Glass today is basically like Internet access in 1994. Slow, expensive, flawed and of no practical value -- but interesting and fun for those with the time and interest to tinker with it.