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Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable (engadget.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader writes: FCC filings published today are offering a glimpse of the "Enterprise Edition" of Google Glass. According to Engadget: "...The work-focused eyepiece touts a much slicker (and likely more durable) design with both a larger display prism and a hinge that lets you fold it up for travel. The test photos also reveal a spot for a magnetic battery attachment and what looks to be a speedier Atom processor. There's still no word on when Google will announce this headset, although the FCC presence hints that it might not take long."

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  1. another predictably failed product by sittingnut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    really?! seems throwing money at product development seems to make developers ever more blind to the obvious defects in the whole concept of this device.

    1. Re:another predictably failed product by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Every device has defects in it's concept. The only question is does the defects outweigh the benefits?

      Social acceptance of someone wearing some tech in a bar would indicate no even if the reasons for it are absurd.
      Benefits of real time HUD and augmented reality when performing functions that require on the fly information on the other hand would indicate yes.

      Why shouldn't developers continue working on a device if it only fails one specific use case? I can't use my phone in the cinema without getting the crap kicked out of me does that mean they shouldn't exist or be developed at all? After all it's an obvious defect in the concept of the device.

  2. Re:Glasholes by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What company is going to let its employees bring in spyware?

    Any company that allows cellphones.

  3. A workplace tool for the minimum-wage class by ffkom · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What irony! Once touted as the must-have toy for hipsters, Google Glass is now actually becoming a tool to steer and control human minimum-wage working drones in warehouses. Feel a pity for all who'll be obliged to wear such at work.

  4. Re:Have they solved the washroom problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    What the fuck?! Let me get this straight: you're saying that the person who desires some small amount of privacy while urinating in a public washroom is somehow a deviant?! And you're also saying that transsexuals who intentionally use the wrong washroom just so they can peep on others aren't doing anything wrong?! What the fuck?!