Second-gen Google Glass looks even dorkier than the original

[onehandle]

Google somehow found a way to make Glass look even nerdier. On Tuesday the company posted photos of the next version of Glass to its official Google+ page and we can’t help but notice how much worse the second generation Glass looks compared to the original.

Even though most of the design went unchanged, this new version of Glass features an unsightly mono earbud that plugs into the charging port and makes you look even more like an android. The second generation of Glass will reportedly support an upcoming line of shades and prescription frames, but it doesn’t seem like this version of Google’s fancy face computer will be compatible with your current glasses either.

The bone-conduction speaker in the first generation of Glass may not have had the best audio performance, but this new mono earbud seems more like a last minute solution than a suitable alternative. Having the earbud plug into the charging port makes it that much more likely that you’ll end up losing it since you’ll need to unplug it every time you need to charge up your Glass. (Something you’ll probably end up having to do pretty often.)



http://www.techhive.com/article/2059222/second-gen-google-glass-looks-dorkier-than-the-original.html

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. They do look dorky.

But then again, plastering an Apple sticker to the back of your Volvo/Subaru is also pretty dorky/tacky. It takes all kinds.

[Arkana]

2. Google could just release a big neon sign that's worn on the head

that says "PLEASE PUNCH ME IN THE FACE", because that's effectively what they've done here. Why, oh why do they think these things are going to catch on?

[BlueJazz]

27. LOL!

They DO look like something out off a 1976 sci-fi film.

[Newsjock]

3. Glassholes.

Wear one around me, and I'm through with you.

[dogknob]

23. Word.

Asshole Glasses(tm)

The prototype for the next version is even dorkier...

[rusty fender]

28. Bwahahahah

[ChisolmTrailDem]

26. That's me when it comes to those bluetooth earpieces. Hate 'em and...

...hate the assholes who wear them.

[HappyMe]

4. I have never, ever seen

anyone with these on.

[MineralMan]

8. They're not really widely available. That's why.

When they are, people will be lined up to buy them to add to their techno-hip wardrobe. Count on it. Watch magazines like Vogue and Details. They'll be in fashion shoots real soon now, right on time for the public availability.

They're going to sell like Furbies. Just watch.

[HappyMe]

10. I can't wait to see the first yahoo with these on.

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I'll bet there will be lots and lots of this ---

[MineralMan]

11. Yes, I'm sure you're right.

OTOH, it may spell the end of the "selfie." Instead, people will start posting "yousies" of people they catch off-guard with their Google Glass.

And the horny boys will post photos of cleavage they see. Count on it. I'll call those "boobsies."

We won't discuss the "POVsies" on the do-it-yourself porn sites, though. Wouldn't be prudent.

[arcane1]

16. And lots of this too:

[HappyMe]

17. lol! Yeah.

It might just be a lot of fun to mess with those people.

[MADem]

32. Your video crashed..... nt

[HappyMe]

35. I saw an OP here that said that YouTube is down.

edit to add --

I tried to fix it by using a different link, but it didn't work.

[dionysus]

19. funny you say that, i was just at best buy and they have came out with a new line of Furbies!

[MineralMan]

21. I know. I saw them on the TV the other day.

I have a Furby story. My wife bought me one as a gag gift the first Christmas they were available. After fooling with it for a few days, I put it to sleep and stashed it in the bottom drawer of my bedroom chest of drawers and just forgot about it.

A couple of years later, we packed up everything and moved to Minnesota. The dresser was loaded up near the front of the moving truck we bought to make the move. Every time I opened the roll-up door of that moving truck, I heard this muffled voice: "Big Sound! Me Nooloo!" Somehow, the Furby had gotten turned on during the loading of the truck. When we finally got to Minnesota, we put the truck, fully loaded, into storage until we found a house to buy.

When we drove the truck to our new house, we hired a couple of moving company guys to unload it. They rolled up the door, and heard the Furby say that. It was funny as the dickens, watching their reaction.

[joshcryer]

22. We'll skip Glass in favor of an Occulus-rift style augmented reality device.

It'll have a screen on the outside that makes your face seem there but faces will be completely obscured. Anyone wearing them will be able to send out an augmented reality signal that makes them appear normal to others wearing the same devices.

Mind you I think Glass will be very popular, but VR is where the future is.

[MineralMan]

24. I agree. VR will finally end up being the most popular thing

ever. I have no doubt about that at all. The technology is almost there, but the cost is still too high. Imagine gaming in a 60" virtual 3-D environment, with eye movement controls and some brainwave controlled functions.

It's close to becoming a reality. As soon as the porn biz can get into it, it's golden.

I got to test one of the earliest 3-D virtual screen environment years ago. It was too low-resolution to create much realism, but was addictive anyhow. Once retinal-level resolution is available on these systems, it's all going to go absolutely nuts, and that's just around the corner. You can buy a brainwave controlled toy helicopter right now and eye movement monitoring is already there. The only thing that isn't quite ready is the extremely high-resolution virtual displays. Sooner than people think, though.

[Xithras]

12. I've seen a number of them around the SF Bay Area.

No way of telling how many were Google employees though.

[HappyMe]

13. I would imagine that they

are Google employees.

I haven't seen any in NYC.

[Xithras]

15. Maybe, maybe not.

Google has also been handing them out to a lot of people associated with other technology companies, hoping to spur development of third-party Glass apps. The bulk of Glass users work for Google, but it's conceivable that they could have worked for Twitter or any of the countless other technology companies and startups on the peninsula.

As I said, no way to tell.

[Xyzse]

30. Seen only one thus far.

In New Orleans, he was wearing a google shirt and everything.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Hi-Tech fashion statements.

[MineralMan]

6. Yah, but I expect to see these in fashion layouts

all over the place. Nerdy? Sure. Nerds will love them. Geeky? You bet. Le Geek, c'est Chic.

Frankly, I expect these things to be the hot item for the 20-something cool set, shortly, and that's what Google thinks, too.

We'll see if I'm right.

[Jamiletto]

7. People should stop making decisions to buy based on looks

And more on whether the product is useful.

[Jesus Malverde]

9. I love listening to music in one ear, mono sound is hip...

[hootinholler]

39. Only with AM reception n/t

[geek tragedy]

14. "I am Locutus of Borg." nt

[NuclearDem]

18. Mr Worf....fire.

[JHB]

34. Actually, pretty close to the Doninion ones from DS9

[K.O. Stradivarius]

20. I don't find the looks NEARLY as dorky or lame

as the voice commands required to have it perform a certain function.

Ok, Glass... take a picture

Ok, Glass... record a video

Ok, Glass... how do I get to

Etc.

[quinnox]

25. I'm gonna be "accidently" tripping anyone I see wearing those when

walking around.

[MADem]

29. Who knew? You too can affect a "cro magnon" look, simply by wearing these stupid things!

Forensic facial reconstruction of a Cro-Magnon man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon

[Blue Owl]

33. It's Google Chrome-Magnon man!

n/t

[MADem]

40. OK, that was pun-a-licious!! Full marks!!! nt

[Blue_Adept]

31. Once it gets out of Google's hands...

We'll start seeing some interesting design options for it. Just like they do most things, it'll end up being widely co-opted and redeployed.

But I do love seeing the regular plans for "violence" against people they see using them. So progressive.

[MADem]

38. What violent things? Please be specific. I don't see massive "planning for violence" here.

One poster snarks that he'll accidentally trip 'em--you think he'll actually do it, or is he just being too cool for school? Braggadocio exists even on the net, ya know.

I think you're being a bit "too clever by half"--either that, or you're employed by Google...?

It isn't "planning for violence" to note that people who look like snooty-hipster-dorks are sometimes set upon by people who don't appreciate the "I am superior to you because I have the latest overpriced and asinine toy" 'tude and vibe those sorts of folks often transmit.

I think it's "unprogressive" to lust after stupid shit only the One Percent can afford, if we're gonna go to the foolishness of a "Who's progressive" game. Why spend your money on that kind of stupidity when you can give it to charity, after all?

I remember seeing this same sense of faux superiority amongst people who were carrying CALCULATORS--yes, CALCULATORS, that were half as wide and slightly larger than a pack of king sized cigarettes. Yes, a POCKET calculator...from Texas Instruments (of course, you needed a large pocket, but whatever)....was capable of producing that very same snooty, "I got mine, I'm FIRST, I'm SPECIAL" attitude that these stupid things are doing now. In ten or twenty years, they'll probably give them away as door prizes. Hell, how long did it take for calculators--not the size of a cigarette pack, but the size of a credit card--to be given away when you opened a bank account?

Look, if people want to buy those stupid things, fine, let them....and if people want to make fun of them for wearing them, fine, let them, too.

I would say "Welcome to DU" but apparently you've been here since 2008...?

[riderinthestorm]

36. I'm a nerd then. I think they actually look pretty cool. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

37. "21st Century Schizoid Man"

For some reason the glasses reminded me of a
King Crimson's song






"21st Century Schizoid Man"

Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.



Well that's some cheery lyrics of a bright future....... thanks google

LOL

I'm sure Philip K Dick would approve
as his novel 'Eye in the Sky' and other stories touched upon. Living and interacting in this world and the web world at the same time as the NSA watches your every move in Both...... from its giant brain center in Utah.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(novel)


Maybe King Crimson and Mr. Dick were on to something.........


I do think they look 21first century what ever that means.