Google Vowel shift....
The internet was the place to w*nk... thanks to google glass's A->I vowel shift it will soon be the place to wink. Bloody winkers the lot of them!
Expect to see Google Glassholes winking at you from across the street in the next few weeks as a new update allows users of the high-tech specs to take photos with nothing more than a blink of one eye. The Chocolate Factory reckons this innovation will allow Glassholes to "stay in the moment" since all they have to do is wink …
Actually, putting the vowel back where it belongs (if you pardon the pun) actually makes the marketing gumpf closer to the truth. Wink at your girlfriend. Wink at the cop about to arrest you. Wink at the building site and get chased by randy builders (etc. I'll be here all week :) ).
Why not go the whole hog and turn your entire face into an input device?
Scratching your ear could turn up the volume.
A cough could tweet your location
Picking your nose could act like a mouse click - depending on which nostril you choose
and when someone takes offence and smacks you in the mouth - well, that could be the signal to switch off.
Please link to the actual web page so we can see the mouseover text, thanks. http://xkcd.com/1304/
A bout of hay fever could bankrupt the Glassy-eyed! I like the information-source ideas for Glass (my middle-aged memory is like a dropped Rolodex) so I can remember people's names, but some of the other apps border on the creepy. At least the Glass makes those obnoxious "selfies" impossible!
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Is it me getting old or is the prospect of sitting the room while people are winking taking pictures and getting a constant stream of information a bit scary.
I know you could argue that its no different to people using their smartphones but it just feels a bit more sinister.......
Mens' and womens' shoe sizes are not the same in the US. My husband and I are about the same size in shoes (we can borrow each others' muck boots to go into the garden) but our number shoe size is about two numbers off - I'm a 10, he's an 8 1/2. But the only way either of us would look at a pair of Jimmy Choos would be to blink at the price, or roll eyes at the idiocy of anyone who would torture themselves with them.
of a big fist about to strike the wearer of the dumb things when they try to take pictures of the fists owner without permission.
Don't forget that google will no doubt add them to their library of faces and fists that they supply to the NSA, ad men and other users of your data.
I am looking forward to the time when someone had F**k Google' tattooed on their fist just for this purpose.
"Cue lots of pictures appearing on the internet
of a big fist about to strike the wearer of the dumb things when they try to take pictures of the fists owner without permission.
Don't forget that google will no doubt add them to their library of faces and fists that they supply to the NSA, ad men and other users of your data.
I am looking forward to the time when someone had F**k Google' tattooed on their fist just for this purpose."
Of course, if people do start punching people for wearing glasses (Google or not), the ability to upload pictures of the attacker's face and fist to the Internet, maybe together with an automatic phone call to the police to arrest the person for assault, might be a useful app for them.
Edit: In general, I think committing a violent crime against someone who is recording the whole thing might not be the smartest move on someone's part, in which case we can expect to see more violent thugs, who attack people already but with relatively little consequence, to end up in front of the beak more often as the evidence is so overwhelming that the CPS cannot drop it for "insufficient evidence" (read: we cannot be bothered).
Don't punch them, or break their Glass. Just get one person to hold them still while you apply *something* to the lenses.
*could be a sticker, jam, an angry bee, anything that wont cause an actual offence, but would be annoying for the wearer. Rinse and repeat every time they clean them.
Don't punch them, or break their Glass. Just get one person to hold them still while you apply *something* to the lenses.
*could be a sticker, jam, an angry bee, anything that wont cause an actual offence, but would be annoying for the wearer. Rinse and repeat every time they clean them.
I think you'll find that's still an offense.
Well yeah there is that, but on the other hand the kind of person who would punch you in the face for pissing him off won't care about the consequences anyway.
Of course you would then have the satisfaction of knowing the CPS won't prosecute because of insufficient evidence as they do now for CCTV cameras, (while you're having the bits of broken glass dug out of your eyeballs in the emergency room).
If you are the sort of thug who would punch someone for wearing Glass then you are the sort of thug who would punch someone "for looking at my missus", or "being a funny colour" or "don't like the way you dress".
A thug is a criminal and at least the evidence of them doing can start getting them locked up and taking them off the street.
"I can't say too much because I'm not sure if the cops are going to pursue this matter.
Let's just say that in a certain pub a certain person was secretly recording someone and their phone got destroyed somehow. Allegedly.
With GG this is going to happen regularly."
It's mostly going to be people who already have a propensity to cause criminal damage who do this, but this time with the added bonus of their crimes being broadcast online, for easy pursuit in the civil courts if the CPS is the complete bunch of useless twunts that they were when my Dad's car got broken into and there was "insufficient evidence", despite him catching the guy who was doing it, and CCTV footage of him catching the guy while he was breaking into the car.
phones that you can carry with you? with cameras built in? or some sort of global search tool where you can put in someones name and see all the dodgy websites they take part in?
shurely one can think of at least 50 potential scenario where this tech could overturn the very fabric of society?
Can you imagine what would happen if peadophiles got hold of desktop printers and started to carpetbomb every city on earth with cheaply printed child pornography?
Nothing bears thinking of anymore... any tech on top of what we have today will lead us into our own destruction.
PS. If someone wears their google glasses to bed, or sets up a camera on a tripod next to it; assume that they want to film you having sex, and either agree to be filmed in the heat of the moment or make your displeasure at the prospect known before the carnal activities commence.