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And as #1 said so well: UGH!
[tone:terrified]
Google Glass is not going to fail because of inherent problems but because the people who are most strongly attracted to it are the exact kind of people that everyone else wants to fuck off and die. The evangelists are their own worst enemies.
PS
I love how they fuzz out the porsche license plate. Cheap bastards.
Also, the driving bit was terrifying just to watch, I can't imagine what it would be like actually driving with all that going on.
@5 You do know that that's not what the actual Google Glasses do, right? This is fantasy: speculation on what might one day be possible. The Google Glasses are way less obtrusive, just a small screen in the corner of your vision. Less distracting, but also less useful.
Sure, this will all go so well.
And, @8 totally FTW.
ha.
- Why doesn't this guy have a google smart car? I was surprised that he had to do the driving himself.
- Those billiard shots were a bit unspectacular. I was expecting them to have some trick shot where the guy pulls off a crazy shot thanks to the glasses.
It's the precursor to the "Badass" sequence, on the best thing Stephenson's ever written.
We can imagine the Savage Love Glass app parody: Glass will superimpose:
"touch nipples"
"move hand to thigh"
"tongue clitoris for 3 to 5 min."
"orgasm! post to Facebook?"
.... cut to 1 year later ....
Married, both wearing glasses. We cut to her Glass view of him -- superimposed image on him says "divorce attorney settlement estimate $15 million, call now?"
But I'm shocked at the negative sentiment to the *product* (and by proxy to Google Glass, to which it is superficially similar). Seriously, guys?
Does anyone remember how everyone used to HATE people with mobile phones when they first came out? When they were a status symbol? It's funny how I heard the same laments about how mobile phones enable stalking etc. Actually, makes perfect sense because these glasses do much less than your phone does right now -- the only difference is that you don't have to take it out of the pocket.
That aside, if you can't see how fucking creepy those glasses are than I'm not going to bother explaining.
HA!
Reaction to the physics of the pool shot, when the glasses don't control the force of your shot or know anything about the table, cue, etc:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Pool sharks are going to make a fortune fleecing guys who buy these.
And I guess bartenders are going to make a fortune in tips, saying "Gollies, how did you know that? You must be sooooo super smart!"
As an aside- I can't believe an actual, real woman would go to some customer's house right after a bartending shift. If it were me, I'd be tired, my feet would be hurting, and I would need an evening in my PJ's just to recharge from all that effort of interacting with customers all day.
I HATE it when guys try to get me to come over the same day they met me. It just comes across as so entitled- like, OBVIOUSLY I don't have any other plans for the evening, in his mind. Even if I initially wanted a guy to ask me out, asking me to hang out that same day is basically a guarantee that I'll never see him again. Because I actually, you know, like to make plans in advance.
But I'm a self-declared introvert. Do other, more conventionally "normal" ladies actually do that? (Not a rhetorical question, I'm actually curious)
Personally, I can't wait for augmented reality. As someone who is terrible about matching faces to names, I'd love to have something that can remind me someone's name when I see them. But the rest of the bio/dossier stuff is just creepy.
Also, I want the feature that paints crosshairs around people's heads and writes "target acquired" at the bottom of my field of vision. That would make meetings much more tolerable.
I wonder if that Cabernet Blanc had a faint note of roofie.
Tony Stark's/Ironman's suit is cool because he has the only one. Because he's a billionaire. And fictional.
iPhones do amazing things that were impossible for anyone only a few years ago. But we can only afford them because tens of millions are manufactured. These future goodies would give you the douche's super powers in the present but time travel is impossible. We know time travel will remain impossible because no iPhone, tricorder or .458 round has ever been found in coprolite (fossilized dino poo).
Yep. I love tech and socialization, but Glassholes tend to be NPD or the sort that think it's some sort of "peacocking" and get VERY ANNOYED when you don't care as much as they want you to.