Google’s wearable computer eyewear, “which allows users to access the Internet, take photos and film short snippets, has been pre-emptively banned by a Seattle bar. Large parts of Las Vegas will not welcome wearers. West Virginia legislators tried to make it illegal to use the gadget, known as Google Glass, while driving,” David Streitfeld reports for The New York Times. “But the resistance is already under way.”
“‘This is just the beginning,’ said Timothy Toohey, a Los Angeles lawyer specializing in privacy issues. ‘Google Glass is going to cause quite a brawl,'” Streitfeld reports. “As personal technology becomes increasingly nimble and invisible, Glass is prompting questions of whether it will distract drivers, upend relationships and strip people of what little privacy they still have in public.”
Streitfeld reports, “‘We are thinking very carefully about how we design Glass because new technology always raises new issues,’ said Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman. Developers, however, are already cracking the limits of Glass. One created a small sensation in tech circles last week with a program that eliminated the need for gestures or voice commands. To snap a picture, all the user needs to do is wink… Google takes the attitude that people should have nothing to hide from intrusive technology. ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,’ said Eric Schmidt, then Google’s chief executive, in 2009.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Why blow $1,500 on Google Glass when you can get “CREEPER” tattooed on your forehead for under $100?
Why Brin insists on being the poster child for Glass when they have King Creeper himself, Eric T. Mole, right there and ready to go is beyond us.
Just think how useful these would have been in Apple’s Board meetings during iPhone development! Android might have actually been good, instead of an insecure, fragmented mess that only really moves units when handset makers give away one or more units with every purchase.
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How many people are going to die in auto mishaps because of Google glasses. How can those a-soles at Google not know this?
THis concept is ignored by most but I tell you, if you have kids, your life as a parent would be practically over if your kid dies a senseless death by some idiot ‘doin the net’ while driving.
The more we advance, I fear the more we regress at times.
Should Budweiser or Coors be responsible if someone drinks and drives?
Should Apple or Samsung be responsible if someone texts while driving?
Should Ford or BMW be responsible if someone drives without a seat belt
I think not
So why should Google be responsible if someone tries to use Glass to surf the net while driving?
Don’t blame the company, blame the idiot users. People need to responsible for their own actions. If the user does something stupid or wrong they should be held accountable no the company.
Blaming the company for someone misusing their product is ludicrous.