Google to sell Internet glasses to contest winners
This will be the next advancement in technology to the Mobile internet phone... 8)
Google to sell early version of $1,500 Internet glasses to select few chosen in contest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is touting as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.
The product, dubbed "Google Glass," will be offered to "bold, creative individuals" selected as part of a contest announced Wednesday. Participants must live in the U.S. and submit an application of up to 50 words explaining what they would do with the Google Glass technology. Entries must include the hash tag "ifihadglass" and be submitted through Google Plus or Twitter by next Wednesday. Google did not say how many glasses it will sell this way.
Winners will receive the "Explorer" version of Google Glass, a forerunner of the product that is expected to be released to the mass market next year. Google Inc. already sold an unspecified number of the glasses to computer programmers who also paid $1,500 apiece at a company conference last June.
The people picked to buy this next batch of glasses will be notified in mid- to late March. They will have to travel to New York, Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay area to pick them up.
Google Glass is supposed to perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. The glasses include a tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye and run on Google's Android operating system for mobile devices.
Because no hands are required to operate them, Google Glass is supposed to make it easier for people to take pictures or record video wherever they might be or whatever they might be doing. Online searches also can be more easily conducted by just telling Google Glass to look up a specific piece of information. Google's Android system already has a voice search function on smartphones and tablet computers.
In the latest demonstration of the product's potential, Google posted a video showing people wearing the glasses while skydiving, riding a rollercoaster, skiing, riding a horse and even swinging on a trapeze. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., also posted photos of the glasses in five different colors: charcoal, tangerine, shale, cotton and sky blue.
To gauge how people might use its glasses, Google is encouraging entrants in its contest to include up to five photos and 15 seconds of video with their applications. The company doesn't want to see any nudity or violence. "Basically, don't add anything you wouldn't be OK with your Mom seeing," Google advised.
Google Glass is at the forefront of a new wave of technology known as "wearable computing."
When he demonstrated the glasses at last June's company conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the company was still working out bugs and trying to figure out how to extend the product's battery life. Brin has been overseeing the work on Google Glass, which the company first began developing in 2010 as part of a secretive company division now known as Google X.
Now that Google Glass is no longer a secret, Brin is often seen wearing the product in public. He sported a pair of the glasses during a Wednesday appearance at an event announcing the creation of a $3 million annual prize for outstanding achievements in medicine and biology. Brin, who owns Google stock currently worth nearly $20 billion, is helping to fund the annual awards.
Brin has said the mass-market version of Google Glass will cost less than $1,500, but more than a smartphone.
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Online:
How to apply: http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/
Video of Google Glass in action: http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels
http://news.yahoo.com/google-sell-internet-glasses-contest-181624775.html
remember the scene in terminator, where he was accessing all kinds of data about anything he looked at, and it was all printed out on his eyes ? like in terminator 2, where he needs clothes, goes into a biker bar, scans the area til he finds someone with same body dimensions. same idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUVwoEOlBxY
okay it's official. if it's in a scifi, it's probably real and they are just calling it scifi. lol which means there may be a real enterprise space ship lol who's five year mission, to search out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where the latest batch of humans have never gone. (including dudes with pointy ears)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKiWvjfCiQ
Quote from: undo11 on February 21, 2013, 08:48:04 AM
... which means there may be a real enterprise space ship lol who's five year mission, to search out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where the latest batch of humans have never gone. (including dudes with pointy ears)
Yeah and its a NAVY ship... that is why its Admiral Kirk :P
You mean these glasses?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840
Oh, i can't wait to get one of those :P
That video is more than funny PWM LOL
I recall back when hand free sets for mobiles were just coming into play whilst i was working as an AV tech driving around the CBD day in and day out "wondering why in the hell are so many people talking to themselves these days".
It was quite funny when I found out what was going on ;D
Quote from: zorgon on February 21, 2013, 10:52:58 AM
Yeah and its a NAVY ship... that is why its Admiral Kirk :P
When I was a kid, I fell in love with a show called Macross. It was about humans that gained advanced tech from a crashed alien ship. the aliens are giants compared to the humans. The Earth defense in the show was the U.N. SPACY. United Nations Space Navy.
The transforming Jets used by the U.N. SPACY needed special jet packs to fly outside of the Earth's atmosphere. The mother ship used by earth in space was the SDF-1. Super Dimensional Fortress. It had 2 detachable arms that resembled navy ships called the Prometheus and the Daedalus.
The U.N.SPACY patch or insignia resembles a hypersonic craft.
(http://www.robotechresearch.com/picture_archive/Macross/Ships/sdf-1/large/sdf-1_17_large.jpg)
(http://www.midnightanimation.com/gallery/robotech/unspacy/unspacy2.gif)
This is the show that made me fall in love with Aerospace.
LSWONE.
Quote from: undo11 on February 21, 2013, 08:48:04 AM
okay it's official. if it's in a scifi, it's probably real and they are just calling it scifi. lol which means there may be a real enterprise space ship lol who's five year mission, to search out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where the latest batch of humans have never gone. (including dudes with pointy ears)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAKiWvjfCiQ
Warp drive is pretty much already redundant. If NASA want to waste their time going to Mars or whatever using near-conventional means, they will probably use the ion drives people have been talking about; but the real prize is quantum teleportation. If we figure that out, we can transcend locality more or less entirely.
For the old mundane life I can see where many applications for Google Glass along with Google Map technology (sorry I meant Keyhole and the CIA lol) could be a great asset!
One teeny weeny example I could think of how it could be useful is in replacing a GPS based training watch. Currently I am hum and haring over whether to get a Garmin 910xt watch for running and cycling and the thought of having the info the Garmin provides on a big clunky watch whilst running compared to a potential product like the Google Glass seems quite prospective.
Imagine a Cycling video overlay video down a trail made by a Pro whilst you are screaming down those trails at Whislter in Canalien Land... Good Learning tool!
Also what about cooking ? I thought product's like the Ipad would be great for the kitchen but in reality they fall short on the very simple fact that Grubby Mits are exactly what they are named "Grubby", and they don't mix well with touch screens, and when I cook something I usually like to follow instructions till I know the recipe well enough before I cook freestyle!
Teaching Abilities with a device of this nature would be nutz if this offers two way video 8)
Must say though that the video Quality in the Teaser looks a bit on the side of Poop compared to other options in the POV market right now.
Google Glass Teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE
PIVOT HEAD
http://pivothead.com/
M13's NEW CAMERA - 1080p SUNGLASSES!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX7q9ywdAIM
Sorry I managed to get two wheels into this post :P
UN Spacy :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Spacy
Wow after looking that up on wikipedia lswone I see they referenced Robotech. Loved that show when I was Kid!
This is the point where I lament the demise of Openminds forum as I had posted a funny in the Naval space thread in regard to a jap cartoon only to find that the Mil had produced a Manga themselves!
Voltron using the colours of Tibetan Flags! Another oddity :D
need to hunt down the cartoon that had navy ship sailing around the galaxy!
Google Glass and ATS
"Hi this is Jim Oberg, sorry to cut your inquiry short but you read too much and didn't follow the rules of TLDR."
"We are now terminating any real experience you may have seen outside our guidelines, which are in accordance with Nasa Directive Berg O"
Quick we need to get a Dev kit for this Glass before the Bergo gets hold :P
Quote from: LSWONE on February 21, 2013, 04:43:37 PM
The transforming Jets used by the U.N. SPACY needed special jet packs to fly outside of the Earth's atmosphere. The mother ship used by earth in space was the SDF-1. Super Dimensional Fortress. It had 2 detachable arms that resembled navy ships called the Prometheus and the Daedalus.
So ummm... how many of those 'jets' do you have in the hangers?
::)
QuoteThe U.N.SPACY patch or insignia resembles a hypersonic craft.
I hope they take better care of them than DARPA does :P
Prometheus was also that big cruiser we had in Stargate SG1 and the patch they wore was the REAL space command patch :D NAVY tradition always reuses the same names for ships ;)
Quote from: zorgon on February 21, 2013, 07:26:06 PM
So ummm... how many of those 'jets' do you have in the hangers?
::)
Not sure. The security around the 2 special hangers is really high. I think the barbed wire at top of fence is just for added dramatization.
:o
(http://thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Triangles/10062623.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Air_Force_Space_Command_Logo.svg/200px-Air_Force_Space_Command_Logo.svg.png)
(http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/wp-content/gallery/space-command/air-force-space-command-25th-anniversary.jpg)
(http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/wp-content/gallery/space-command/uss-stratcom-jffcc-space.jpg)
Quote from: zorgon on February 21, 2013, 07:40:23 PM
(http://thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Triangles/10062623.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Air_Force_Space_Command_Logo.svg/200px-Air_Force_Space_Command_Logo.svg.png)
(http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/wp-content/gallery/space-command/air-force-space-command-25th-anniversary.jpg)
(http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/wp-content/gallery/space-command/uss-stratcom-jffcc-space.jpg)
Can you imagine if I had accidentally opened the wrong door when I invited you for a little tour? 8) :o
You would have loved the little poster in the cafeteria hall too!
Sorry Astr0144, didn't meant to side your thread here.
LSWONE.
Google Glass will find all secrets mate ;D
well if one day you find yourself giving you advice,
and the local parameters don't account for the event,
there's a good chance time travel is also ongoing.
and in that event, all bets are off, cause it won't just be
contingent on who has the most money and power, but
on who has the most ingenuity and, as z put it, leaning
to the good side, not the bad. since we are all sovereign
beings, this means anyone who tries to force you to believe
anything or do anything that you don't have reason to
believe, is probably leaning to the bad. and apparently,
the universe, ultimately, doesn't grok that. hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ppo5YIYwTM