AH: As we are all waiting for Google’s Project Glass to do something other than keep us nerds up at night wishing the future were already here, there is a possibility that researchers in Belgium might have already created the technology that will replace it. Researchers at Imec have created a curved LCD display that is roughly the size and shape of a contact lens. The idea is that this is the first step towards developing a “Google Glass” like heads up display (HUD) that would be able to project information right in front of you.
Google Glass has had many tech enthusiasts pretty excited at the prospect of using a more simplified version of augmented reality through the digital glasses. Even though Google Glass is still considered to be in development, there have been many updates and improvements to the glasses so they can be more user friendly and practical.
Tekgoblin - We live in an exciting time of ubiquitous connectivity. Some of that gets a little dicey, as we forfeit a few basic consumer rights for supposedly better methods of distribution, but advances in technology are coming faster than ever before. To think that it was less than 60 years ago that we first began to research the idea of moving data across computer networks, and now we send text messages through relays in space!
So now that science has caught up with science fiction, what will our future look like?
CNET: West Virginia lawmakers are already pouncing on the existence of Google Glass and introducing a bill that would prohibit drivers from making a spectacle of themselves.