Tag: Google Glass
People are worried that Google Glass may be dead, but the idea of wearing a screen that beams images into your eye will live on in some way. Michael McAlpine has been working with a team at Princeton University to 3D-print contact lenses that are capable of displaying video, and together, they’ve developed a 5-layered prototype that actually works. […]
According to its creator, someday soon, a forthcoming device called PND Wearable will scan your brain throughout the day and deliver advertising that’s custom-suited to your present mood. By monitoring your mental activity and comparing it to location data from Google Glass, PND will be able to tell how you’re feeling and how you might respond […]
To its detractors, Google Glass is a symbol of bourgeois insensitivity, of white-guy dorkiness, but above all, of disregard for privacy. Anyone wearing camera-equipped specs could be recording you without your knowledge at any time, after all. With a Glass app called Watch Your Privacy, however, you can not only violate the privacy of everyone […]
Well, this is terrifying, if inevitable: the NYPD is testing Google Glass to see whether cops could use the wearable technology while on patrol. “We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes,” a police official […]
Felix Ortiz, a New York state assemblyman from Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ban using Google Glass while driving statewide, DNAinfo reports. Supporters of Ortiz’s bill might argue that, duh, you shouldn’t be on the road with a screen mere centimeters from your face. Detractors would say that Glass allows you to do the things you’d […]
2×1, a forthcoming documentary currently funding on Kickstarter, takes its name from two places: two miles by one mile, the dimensions of Crown Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood where it’s set, and the two distinct communities–Caribbean people and Hasidic Jews–that make up the area’s one whole population. Filmmaker Mendy Seldowitz, a Crown Heights native, hoped to get away […]
Google Glass has only been available for a few short months now, but developers have been as busy as ever testing the limits of the device. So naturally, someone made it possible to pilot a drone using Google Glass. Blaine Bublitz ,developer and co-founder of IcedDev and hackPHX has done some pretty intensive coding, making it now possible […]
Earlier today, beloved NYC website Gothamist published a photo from Flickr that showed a pair of Google Glass, the most buzzed about gadget of all time, sitting atop a Cronut, the most buzzed about pastry-thingy of all time. The blog was flummoxed by the juxtaposition and speculated on the “mental stability” of the person who […]
“You should be able to watch porn on your Google Glass, just don’t jerk off on the subway.” James Deen — porn star, actor, Voice of Reason — is right. Since Google updated its Terms of Service to prohibit “glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material,” the quickly-censored Tits and […]
So this Google Glass thing might catch on, huh? Well, if you can’t win them, you might as well make money. ANIMAL presents: Five Google Glass apps you totally need to buy tomorrow. Are you an exceptionally socially active individual? Do you have trouble recalling some of those social activities? Do you have any idea what the fuck you’re […]
