Thursday, July 5, 2012

Google glass

  • Olympus this week announced its own MEG4.0 ultra-compact wearable display prototype. The device, which comes as Google is touting its own Project Glass innovation, is seven years in the making.
  • (PC Magazine)
  • Software giant Apple has been awarded a patent for a wearable display device by the US Patent and Trademark Office, that sounds similar to Googles Project Glass.
  • (Hindustan Times)
  • You too can broadcast your skydive via Google Glass, so long as your friend will wait on the ground and point an amplifying dish at you.
  • (Ars Technica)
  • Google's been flaunting its Google Glass prototype left and right, but it may not be the only company getting into the head-up-display business. Apple was granted a patent for a head-mounted display apparatus on Tuesday.
  • (Wired News)
  • Is Apple planning a Google Glass competitor? If a recently granted patent is any guide, Apple is at least exploring the possibility of creating an "enhanced viewing experience" for the user.
  • (Mashable)
  • Even though I followed Google's I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft.
  • (Wired News)
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  • (AlterNet)
  • Googles glasses-camera demo was but a few minutes old when Twitter started buzzing with the obvious question: Will they be used for porn? Its Rule 34 of the Internet, of course: if it exists, there will be porn of it.
  • (PC Magazine)
  • Google Glass could herald the next phase of mobile computing.
  • (The Guardian)

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