“Google Glass hasn’t even hit shelves and it’s already getting banned,” Albert Costill reports for Search Engine Journal.
“Google Glass can best be described as a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD),” Costill reports. “By using voice commands the glasses can take pictures, videos and essentially do everything else that you could on Google.”
Costill reports, “Google Glass has already received a number of pre-bans at certain places. Don’t be surprised if the number of locations continue to increase, but for now, here are the top 10 places that have banned Google Glass.”
Top 10 Places that Have Banned Google Glass:
10. Banks/ATMs
9. Sports Arenas/Concert Venues
8. Locker Rooms/Dressing Rooms
7. Movie Theaters
6. Vehicles
5. Hospitals
4. Classrooms
3. Strip Clubs
2. Casinos
1. Bars
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Preemptive Glasshole Mitigation.
glassholes don’t go to strip clubs. they are not interested in women.
Actually women are automatically not interested in them. Wearing Google Glass automatically turns one into a pariah.
$100 to the first guy to get laid while wearing them!
My money is safe
They don’t go to bars either. Their moms won’t let them!
The glasshole explorer walking through a window was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Looking forward to more of the same
The ONLY place where the use of Google Glass is permitted:
Vivid Entertainment’s backlot where they shot videos of Teen Mom Farah Abraham’s butt crack & James Dean’s sausage in sauerkraut.
Saw that video. That chick is pretty hot.
The video is pretty good, too.
Her tits are silicon. That’s a bit of a turnoff for me. I prefer them natural, big or not.
An even bigger turnoff is that her face looks like a Jewish horse. Plus she’s a whore.
Enjoying Ramadan?
I can’t wait until the stories start rolling in about people wearing these and getting slugged by someone for standing behind them at the ATM or doing any other number of things.
“In the matter of Slugg Oh vs. Glass Hole how do you plea Mr. Oh?”
“I plead not guilty by reason of Privacy Self Defense, your honor”
Maybe these bans will have the same effect that they did against Segways — crippling the tech before it can get a foothold.
I wouldn’t mind that.
Steve Jobs’ views on the yet unreleased Segway which was shown to him in a special preview.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
Thanks. Great article.
My pleasure.
Those are pretty much the only places you would need to take them, so that means they are pretty much useless.
Particularly movie theater so you can find out who actors are, and driving for directions. Some of the other stuff is kinda creepy anyway lol
I don’t plan on talking to ANYONE wearing glasses that can record every little thing that comes out of my obnoxious mouth.
The only people that get a pass are doctors/surgeons, cops (let’s pray they don’t start wearing them, but color me surprised if they don’t), and car mechanics
I have not ask my madam whether they will be allow at my local Brothel.
Depends on whether you’re shooting snatch or just there for a blow.
Home?
Where can we get Google Glass?.
It seems really heavy on the face, Isn’t it?.
just mutter “glasshole” every time you see one in the wild; eventually even these twits will get the hint…
11. Planet Earth
I don’t see what Google glass is good for except being a distraction to real life and recording video of people without there knowledge. At more than a $1000.00 it really isn’t worth it.
MDN take – very funny
Let’s start a Glass Action Lawsuit! 🙂
this crap can’t be stopped, only a matter of time when it will be disguised in regular glasses lenses.
Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of technology could eventually extend even beyond regular glasses to contact lenses.
11. My face
12. My house
‘The Zimm’ should have had some.
So what happens when Apple’s iwatch takes spy videos in ATMs with twist of the wrist (partial credit to Moto X)?
Wouldn’t have anything to do with Google’s reputation and public trust, would it?
What would you all be saying if the product in question was called Apple iGlass?
Why wouldn’t these same places also ban smartphones, since all the same functionality is right there in your handheld device, almost as easily hidden from unsuspecting victims.
If you used your brain, you’d be aware that there are plenty of places that restrict the use of smartphones.
Anyone using a smartphone in a bank, or at an ATM, who looks like they’re recording, or taking photos, will be spoken to, cinemas ban the use for filming, many workplaces ban them, for security reasons, including where I work. Some concert venues will make you put your phone away, if they think you’re taking photos, as will theatres.
That big, glowing screen is a dead give-away, is it not?
Or hadn’t you thought of that?
As far as strip clubs and locker rooms go, anything with an operating camera is restricted.