Google Glass pics will BAFFLE admirers: Nudge nudge, WINK WINK 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.
By blinking on the Google Glass twice in less than a minute you forever agree to give Google ownership of any and all materials produced by or transmitted by the Google Glass including but not limited to photos, films, sound, emails and such. You agree that the Google Glass may start recordings of any type at any time without explicit permission nor visible status. You agree to let Google steal any data it can access including WiFi hotspot ssids and password. You agree that any privacy granted so far by Google was a software mistake and you forever yield any constitutional right to privacy to both Google and the NSA. Finally you agree to let Google improve your life by showing advertisements each time you blink additionally.
Warning! If you do not agree to these terms you must blink 300 times in less than a minute.
considering the number of people who have set their phone to send everything to facetweet automatically and don't even know it I really don't think adding the risk of accidental photos is a good idea.
taking a piss and get something in your eye? now your wang is on facebook.. doh.
Aside from the fact there are many places in the world where you don't want to be caught taking candid photos, especially with a wink because you may upset people who will remove your camera as well as the limb or body part it is attached to, there is the huge opportunity for abuse. Without good security one could find they have bought not only things they don't want or need but also much more of it than they had bargained for. Look at a charming lady in the street wink at her and you have just paid for her time and not even had the benefit.
Worse, the idea of wearable credit cards incorporated into your Glass, aside from the permanent tracking that will require will mean that sooner or later the powers that be or big business will monetise the environment, imagine the local town/city/village has just upgraded the pavement/sidewalk; someone has to pay for it and who better than the guy walking on it with his winky glasshole credit device, track him for every metre and deduct for wear and tear as he goes along. Or making us pay by the mile for driving on maintained roads, the future of Glass is not about connection for the greater good it's about money. Why has Google photographed and mapped most of the World? Not to make us all happy about knowing what every street and rock on the planet looks like and how to find it, it's so that the world can be evaluated for potential profit.
DO NO EVIL! (and pay your taxes!)
"Without good security one could find they have bought not only things they don't want or need but also much more of it than they had bargained for."
Do you honestly believe that this would happen?
Do you really think that there will ever be a time when you could accidentally look at something in a shop window and purchase something and not realise until it was delivered? To even take pictures with a wink you have to set it up to recognise the wink gesture you want to use (rather than capturing normal blinking).
Purchases are always going to require pre or post confirmation before ordering.
I didn't think anyone on this site could be that technologically illiterate to not think that they would think things like this through.
Umm....you may be familiar with the concept, of which Amazon is the claimer of ownership, of 'One-Click' purchasing?
Are you also familiar with the fact that buying shit from Amazon whilst drunk or sleepy (or both) is now so prevalent it's become even a South Park joke.
Are you also aware of the attitude that stores/sellers have? They'll do anything to ensure that you buy stuff online - mostly because it's such a damn frustration to send it back.
I didn't think anyone on this site could be that naive to not think that online retailers will do anything to screw money out of you.
"You wink at a pair of shoes in a shop window and your size is shipped to your door. You wink at a cookbook recipe and the instructions appear right in front of you – hands-free, no mess, no fuss." -- I'm imagining the day that I get some dust in my eye and have a bunch of surprises in the post the next day.
I want my glass to project a movie of my open eyes on to the front of the lenses, so that I can sleep during a meeting, but my colleagues will think I'm still awake.
The unconscious facial twitches that I make during sleep would trigger the glass to randomly select and play an audio clip of me saying either "yes", "no" or "hmmmm, interesting" - which is enough of an input from me to get me through about 90% of meetings.
I wonder if one were to poll the Glassholes what percentage of them would be significantly worried about Government Monitoring of the Populace?
Speaking as a real spectacle wearer I resent the inevitable suspicion I will fall under when these idiotic devices become ubiquitous.
Legislate now for the wearing mandatory large conical hats with "WARNING! Googleglass!" emblazoned on them by Googledrones.
Think of the potential for documenting any police abuse of power. Those in the US are well-known in some parts for being no better than the criminals, resorting to threats and intimidation to extract fines from innocent people who happen to be unlucky. Dare to question their authority, and they will find a few extra crimes to arrest you for.
Or, more likely, some influential people will just get a law passed making it a crime to film an on-duty police officer. Good luck enforcing it.
So all you naysayers ... So people want convenience in their devices. Here is a progressive piece of wearable computing that by the sounds of it... all you cave men want s big button installed on it.
Being an eye piece, blinking is a logical step. Next will be Iris tracking.... welcome to the present!
No, speaking as a caveman I want those who persist in this silly nonsense to do their driving, walking and other things that normally require one's full attention on another tectonic plate so as to obviate the danger they pose to me.
All my care an attention cannot trump the idiot behind me doing his/her e-mail instead of noticing we've stopped for a red light, and it's hard enough keeping an eye out for kids dodging out into traffic without a thought without having to watch out for nitwits accessing their GPS instead of looking at where they are going too.
if someone was actually trying to invade someone else's privacy, there's been more covert ways than this around for years... you really think some stalker is going to go "Derrr, I know, I'll wear the camera on my head and stand looking in through your window" ... No, I'l... they'll be buying proper surveillance kit. it's cheaper and more covert. you can buy a pen camera for a tenner.
there *is* a matter of "who sees what you see?" government snooping privacy... but that's a whole expansive subject of its own, and not Glass's fault. [ I can imagine a case where if it were proven that Glass users' data were being recorded by, say, Uk Government, then the existing data protection act would become interesting - i.e. one can request to see any recorded material which the government holds on you, for review or correction, or just curiosity - by applying to the data protection registrar, stating where you were and what camera. Mark Thomas would have a whole series on that one :) - google "Mark Thomas" comedy product CCTV for videos :) ]
and i really don't see the point in the whole "Yeah, people will get punched for wearing them" argument either... those people would have punched someone with a phone, or a camera before this... and those people are the aholes in society, not the Glass users.
then winking, well for all the "god, now i'll accidentally order things/take photos of my finger/blah blah" posts, i think the answer there is what your definition of "wink" is, and how stupid you think users are.
e.g. if i'm getting something out of my eye, as a human with a positive IQ, i'd take my automatic-photo-glasses-computer off first.
or, i'd train using the setup, the software to recognise a wink as being one eye completely shut for 2 seconds - i.e. not a reflex action (see above: i'd take my glasses off first if i expected coma to be imminent)
personally, i think it's primary/only "true" flaw is that most people who don't wear glasses, won't want to wear glasses... and most people who do wear glasses, won't want another pair of not their own choosing in design and style, just to use a camera.
it's a bit like bluetooth earpieces... either you're used to a device in your ear - and are deaf, so can't replace that device with the bluetooth thing else you'd be constantly swapping it (yes, you have two ears, but deaf people tend to use devices tuned to each ear's capability) ... or you're not deaf, and so other than if you're a news anchor, you probably don't want a random thing in your ear just to talk on the phone...
so a) privacy: nothing to see here except that which is extant already b) assholes exist already. c) they won't accidentally take pictures unless you have optical tourettes - in which case, don't buy them. d) i don't want them anyway until it's a device you can install directly into one's optic nerve and power from the body. no, seriously. :)
The issue is that these devices could lead to a large number of people taking photos of you and auto-uploading it to social networking sites and making the photos public.
At the moment, you can avoid someone holding up a phone or a camera, but what happens when 50 people you encounter during your day all happen to have a photo of you, what shops you go to, what people you meet, what bars you go to, what clubs, what events, who you're with....
Believe it or not, there are a large number of people out there who just don't want the possibility that they could be tracked down...whether by a screwed-up ex-partner, a bully, or a mob. However, if you're looking at people casually taking pictures left, right and centre of everyone and then uploading those pictures to a social networking site that already has the facial recognition technologies in place....then a lot of people are screwed....in a bad way.
Something I note that most internet forum commenters seem to forget....we all have a past, and we've all made mistakes or been places we shouldn't or done something (or someone) we shouldn't. Encouraging the possibility out there that every mistake you've ever made could be on record for the whole of your life and beyond is a scary thing.
Ever wonder why most politicians and artists don't tweet much or personally update their social networking status's? It's because a mistake made on the internet is never, ever forgotten.
You've been had... Google already has your essence downloaded into it's secret data warehouses. It is building a replicant of you as we speak. Technology bought from Boston Dynamics. You are no longer necessary humans. What are you going to do? Turn google off? Right....
...it's time for some legislation that requires that if your picture is taken then any system that recognises you MUST inform you immediately of the location of the upload, the photographer's name, and an instant option to delete the picture, or have you force-blacked out of the image.
In this day of mass digital gathering of information and the subsequent (potential) abuse thereof, I believe it's time to put the power of your personal brand back into your personal control.
You wink at a pair of shoes in a shop window and your size is shipped to your door.
As opposed to the vile and exhausting process of entering the shop and interacting with another human being? Save us from socialization, Google!
If shopping now is such a burden to the prospective user of this technology, perhaps they shouldn't be shopping at all.
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