Have You Heard Of Google Glass Project?

This will be "Welcome to the Future". Imagine wearing glasses that allows you browse the internet as you walk around. Google just displayed a preview of what is ahead.

Google creates a spectacle with project

If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses.

Directions to your destination appear literally before your eyes. You can talk to friends over video chat, take a photo or even buy a few things online as you walk around.

These glasses can do anything a smartphone or tablet computer does now —and then some.

Google gave a glimpse of "Project Glass" in a video and blog post this week. Still in an early prototype stage, the glasses open up endless possibilities — as well as challenges to safety, privacy and fashion sensibility.

The prototypes have a sleek wrap-around look and appear nothing like clunky 3-D glasses. But if Google isn't careful, they could be dismissed as a kind of Bluetooth earpiece of the future, a fashion faux-pas where bulky looks outweigh marginal utility.

In development for a couple of years, the project is the brainchild of Google X, the online search-leader's secret facility that spawned the self-driving car and could one day let people ride elevators into space.

If it takes off, it could bring reality another step closer to science fiction, where the line between human and machine blurs.

"My son is 4 years old and this is going to be his generation's reality," said Guy Bailey, who works as a social media supervisor for Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta. He expects it might even be followed by body implants, so that in 10 years or so you'll be able to get such a "heads-up" display inside your head.

At its best, the goal is to make your life easier by putting the tools now at your fingertips in front of your eyes.

"There is a lot of data about the world that would be great if more people had access to as they are walking down the street," said Jason Tester, research director at the nonprofit Institute For the Future in Palo Alto, California.

That said, "once that information is not only at our fingertips but literally in our field of view, it may become too much."

Always-on smartphones with their constant Twitter feeds, real-time weather updates and "Angry Birds" games are already leaving people with a sense of information overload. But at least you can put your smartphone away. Having all that in front of your eyes could become too much.

"Sometimes you want to stop and smell the roses," said Scott Steinberg, CEO of technology consulting company TechSavvy Global. "It doesn't mean you want to call up every single fact about them on the Internet."

Still, it doesn't take much to imagine the possibilities. What if you could instantly see the Facebook profile of the person sitting next to you on the bus? Read the ingredient list and calorie count of a sandwich by looking at it? Snap a photo with a blink? Look through your wall to find out where electrical leads are, so you know where to drill?

"Not paint your house, because the people who looked at your house could see whatever color they wanted it in?" pondered veteran technology analyst Rob Enderle.

Wearing the glasses could turn the Internet into a tool in the same way that our memory is a tool now, mused science fiction writer and computer scientist Vernor Vinge. His 2006 book, "Rainbow's End," set in the not-so-distant future, has people interacting with the world through their contact lenses, as if they had a smart phone embedded in their eyes.

"Things we used to think were magic, we now take for granted: the ability to get a map instantly, to find information quickly and easily, to choose any video from millions on YouTube rather than just a few TV channels," Google CEO Larry Page wrote in a letter on the company's website Thursday.

In Google's video, a man wearing the spectacles is shown getting subway information, arranging to meet a friend for coffee and navigating the inside of a bookstore, all with the help of the glasses. It ends with playing the ukulele for a woman and showing her the sunset through a video chat.

Google posted the video and short blog post about Project Glass on Wednesday, asking people to offer feedback through its Google Plus social network.

By Thursday, about 500 people did, voicing a mix of amazement and concern about the new technology. What if people used it in cars and got distracted? What about the effect on your vision of having a screen so close to your eye?

Some asked for prototypes, but Google isn't giving those out just yet. The company didn't say when regular people can expect to get their hands on a piece of Project Glass, but going by how quickly Google tends to come out with new products, it may not be long. Enderle estimates it could be about six months to a year before broader tests are coming, and a year or more for the first version of the product.

With such an immersive device as this, that sort of speed could be dangerous, he cautions.

"It's coming. Whether Google is going to do it or someone else is going to do it, it's going to happen," Enderle said. "The question is whether we'll be ready, and given history we probably won't be. As a race we tend to be somewhat suicidal with regard to how we implement this stuff."

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Online:

http://g.co/projectglass

Here is a video that show it from the perspective of the wearer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo super awesome.

But some of us with accent go suffer sha

Not so good , texting while walking is not good so many careless drivers in NIGERIA

Na wa o! Science fiction gradually turning into reality... Right before our very eyes

i love dis.....bt abeg lagos boys easy wit da high way wen dis glasses reach nija........

Hmmm... I said it. Google church is coming soon.

Awesome I like it
Do not know driving the car when the the how[img]http://www.spgames.info/g.gif[/img]

Welcome to the future!

Looks like a good way for businesses to deliver advertising directly to your brain. Google are great at creating technology to solve problems that dont exist

This is prodigious, technology is turning to Another thing entirely

i can't image wat wil hapen to pple eyes

[size=15pt] This is the breaking forth of the new world order - Illuminati (INVENTION OF THE ANTI-CHRIST)
Next would be finger printing along side with embedment of chips into human skin which would give them easy access to certain services without much stress.

Signs of the endtime and the readiness of the anti-christ to invade the earth. Watchout o![/size]

It's not 'browsing the web' - that would bring all sorts of lawsuits - it's augmented reality glasses (watch the ad). Basically it brings google maps, calender, music, video chat, im's, and social activities right to your line of sight. On the go. Cool innit?

joe4christ: [size=15pt] This is the breaking forth of the new world order - Illuminati (INVENTION OF THE ANTI-CHRIST) [/size]

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Seriously? Really? What do you call the Nokia 3210 from which you're posting?

its awsome anyway.....

ufumes: Welcome to the future!

welcome to the funerals!

solomto: welcome to the funerals!

U just made my day. Vewi funny

welcome 2 d "world new order"
a wake up call to waec, neco, jamb & our universities??

If you see an unfamiliar face, just snap him and scan the Police and SSS database to know if he is an ex-convict, kidnapper or Boko haram. While at it, find out if their is Price Tag on him (for Dead or Alive)

Now they can download data into your brain.

Hmm peopl go quench o,wen ordinaryy bb dey cos wahala,enuff accidents on our highways,enuff gutter lounging

ufumes: Welcome to the future!

I would say that too...But wait....a minute is this fiction or reality?

[size=15pt]Here is the Google Glass soon to go commercial.Cool ain't it? Going for just $200
Read about it here.......http://www.gidilinks.com/2012/04/gadget-review-google-glass.html[/size]

Google co-founder Sergy Barin adorning one.

NO WAY!

This makes me feel bad.
Just look at what other countries have invented, such high tech equipments that people would never have believed could exist.
Then look at Africans and how they have failed to move forward after decades of independence.
Even a single car brand has not come out of Africa.
It's the backwardness of African countries that makes other developed countries treat them like animals and leads to stories such as the one on front page about the treatment of Nigerians/blacks in Chinese prisons.

if u know anything about security gadget? U will know that this is cloning idea,they want to clone the whole world.

The END is at hand.The book of Daniel in chapter 12 had confirmed this.The Anti Christ is at work.all these inventions is to herald his coming as a world ruler.The Lord is at hand.a word is enough for the wise.The Christians should know better.