“Google hates it when you say this, but Google Glass has a major image problem,” Brad Reed reports for BGR.
“People using the headset are routinely thrown out of public places including movie theaters and cafes,” Reed reports, “and the most common question many Glass users get asked by non-Glass wearers is whether they’re secretly filming everyone.”
“In case you needed further proof that there’s a major stigma surrounding Glass,” Reed reports, “then you need to watch a new Daily Show clip in which correspondent Jason Jones absolutely rips into Google Glass users who are complaining that people are being mean to them when they see them wearing a computerized headset on their faces.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hey, don’t be a glasshole.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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I saw the episode last night, as it aired. It was quite funny. 😁
Hilarious. Jason Jones…classic
Indeed! “these Phillip K Dicks…” hahahaha
Thank you John Stewart for showing “the truth” (privacy issues) regarding Google Glass.
That was f’ing fantastic. I always wonder why people would willingly subject themselves to a Daily Show interview… they HAVE to know they’ll get skewered. But then again, this lot is stupid enough to wear glass…
The trouble with Glassholes is that they just don’t get it. They demonstrate cluelessness the moment they put the device on and remain in that state.
When I first watched this, I assumed the interviewees were actors, and good ones. Now I’m not so sure. Are they genuine glassholes? Nobody could be that nerdy, surely? (Yeah, I know — “They are that nerdy, and don’t call me Shirley”).
Three of them check out from past news stories, and the earnestness of all of them stands out as a genuine kind of cluelessness. They signed release forms but probably were not paid.
Oh my goodness! The earnestness! My mind reels at the thoughts these people are expressing.
Thanks Hannah. Yes, on subsequent views it became more obvious that they’re the genuine article. Astonishing stuff.
I recognized one from a news story about her experience in a bar. I think they were the real deal.
Hilariously funny.
You can record people with an iPhone or Android phone too, but at least those aren’t strapped to your forehead ready to hit surreptitiously “record” at a moment’s notice or wink. Glassholes indeed.
Extremely funny, but it doesn’t take much work to “destroy” GlassHoles: just let them talk.
“Glass Explorer’ conjures imagery in my head that I don’t want to see. Reference the term ‘asshat’.
would there be so much of a commotion if there were no camera on the glass?
Probably not, but the Glassholes wouldn’t want to wear them if they were just ‘borgs.
“an interface between you and the real world.”
Seriously? For the love of God, don’t these cretins comprehend what their own senses do?
That their own bodies are “an interface between you and the real world.”
I can only hope that wearing these cruddy things renders them so unattractive to the opposite sex that they never get the chance to breed, or get so involved with what’s going on in their internal world that they walk out in front of a truck, bus, train, fall into a river…
Just think of it as evolution in action.
That’s a prefect brain cancer generator right on their head~
Video is not playing for me. Tried several times in Safari and Chrome.
Try this one: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234819
I loved Jason’s gerry-rigged contraption.
The glass holes were totally oblivious to what he was trying to communicate to them!
Hilarious! And he coined a new term: eyeDouch
Edit: eyeDouche
I can guarantee there will never be an iDouche.
“Do you take this Glass to be your unlawful method of recording people without their knowledge?”
“EyeDouche.”
These people take themselves so seriously! “Um, we’re Glass explorers.” Everyone of them seemed at least mildly socially inept.
God, I hope I don’t come across that way when I enthuse about bracelet and anklet tech bands.
I’m an ankle explorer. But that might be a topic for another forum.
lol im surprise they didn’t say anything about the reported eye pain and fatigue that was linked to glass