ExtremeTech - Like most of you, I’ve heard plenty about Google Glass and seen some interesting demos — including the amazingly cool one at the Google I/O keynote this morning that featured skydivers and stunt bike riders. It wasn’t until Sergey Brin put a prototype pair on my face this afternoon, though, that I realized just how cool they are and how important they may become.
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.
