With No Guidance From Google, Makers Creating Own Glass Accessories 50
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Nerval's Lobster writes "Google remains tight-lipped about its roadmap for Google Glass, and its population of early-adopter 'Explorers' remains small. Nonetheless, a growing collection of engineers, designers, and artists are creating their own accessories and add-ons for Glass — some of them useful, others totally whimsical. For example, there's Brooklyn designer Todd Blatt, who's relying on a 3D printer to churn out Glass accessories such as tiny flower-pots and pencil holders (not so useful) as well as a plastic camera cover (useful, at least for anyone in the vicinity who likes their privacy). Small firms such as GPOP and Remotte are likewise exploring how to best skin, dangle, screw, and attach hardware to Glass that makes it operate in whole new ways. (The avenues for exploration have opened up with the second generation of Google Glass, which includes a small screw in the right arm that can double as a mounting point for new tech.) Google seems to have no choice but to let this growing ecosystem thrive, even if some of the modifications (such as camera covers) don't necessarily suit its interests. But will the company actually say something about it?"
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You should be thankful; though the signal-to-noise ratio is fairly low in terms of groundbreaking devices vs. hipster trash, the ma
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You have to see the forest through the trees man!
Whoa. that just gave me a new idea for a glass app.
Much better than my first product idea--a roll of glass wipes set up to look like a roll of toilet paper you can attach to the side of your googlass.
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Re:Enough with the hipster bullshit, please. (Score:4, Insightful)
I long for the days when technology was driven by real needs, and not just by pointless hipster desires. Earlier advances brought us some real gains. I remember when the PC first came out. They allowed for a lot of tedious work to be done much more efficiently. They allowed us to do marvelous things that we couldn't do before. That type of practical technology is on its way out these days. Now all we get are hipster-driven shitfests.
Whoever said "youth is wasted on the young" was absolutely right. Those days are still here, kid! If you had been alive in the 1970s you would have said the same thing about Pong and Space Invaders, while Wozniac and others were developing PCs. Some incredibly useful things that have come along in the last two decades: cell phones, digital HD flat screen TVs, feature phones (more useful than cells), CrystaLens eye implants, cochlear ear implants, hand transplants, tablets (believe it or not, these are used in industry), cars that park themselves... hell, kid, what the fuck do you want, a new miracle every damned week?
Off your lawn, my ass...
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Hipsters are generally quite the opposite in inclination, part of the rise of analog and things that explicitly rebel against the technological trend.
They won't say anything. (Score:4, Insightful)
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They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?
And then you buy them out.
Not really a bad idea, for the seller that is. Come up with something really novel and you could be racing yachts with Larry Ellison before you know it.
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Maybe they can make a face shield attachment accessory to deaden the blows of the punches they deserve for wearing google glass in public. Glassholes.
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And the people who would actually resort to such measures deserve being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for assault.
Since we're talking about justice, after all...
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In before the cyborgs? Nope, we cyborgs have been around for years, long before Google Glass. I became a cyborg in 2006, I know several other cyborgs. One guy I know is both cyborg and chimera.
As far as shaking up the market goes... (Score:2)
The "Remotte" is almost what I'd want (Score:2)
Nobody's going to spend their day wiggling their finger around on their ear.
The problem is that the "Remotte" is basically trying to cram everything into one hard to hold candybar with 15 flashing lights (wtf), when what we really need is something shaped more like a Wii nunchuck.
Rule 34 (Score:4, Interesting)
My question is what does Google, in the current form, expect the glasses to be used for. In the current incarnation, it is the equivalent of wearing mirrors on the top of your shoes. Releasing them without some alternative storyline was a mistake.
Now, when these become available I can see buying a pair and putting prescription lenses in them. OTOH, it does show that Google does not really know what to do with a new product. Everything else it has done in the consumer space has been a refinement or copy. Search using graph theory, phones that were open and now less so, a languishing Office app. What it does with Glasses will determine the future. It could be really good, if they release as a tool instead of a toy.
Re:Rule 34 (Score:5, Insightful)
My question is what does Google, in the current form, expect the glasses to be used for. In the current incarnation, it is the equivalent of wearing mirrors on the top of your shoes.
While I get the connection to Rule 34, I'm pretty sure Google Glass in its current form doesn't help you catch glimpses up strangers' skirts.
Where's my Geordi La Forge case mod? (Score:1)
Captain Picard to the bridge! Captain, we’ve got a problem with the warp core, or the phase inducers – or some other damn thing
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People who dodge or walk around people taking video or photos aren't typically doing so because they have any kind of paranoia about who is taking picture or video that they might be in or what they might do with it, they are usually doing so out of respect for the person taking said picture or video, because presumably the thing being pointed at is what is interesting the person, and people who are simply walking by. That tends to happen only in the foreground, however... most people are unconcerned if
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Why should a person who's minding their own business
Because they don't want someone else minding it.
actually care if they happen to incidentally be in a video that somebody recorded near them?
Why shouldn't they?
Where are the nose and mustache add-ons? (Score:2)
and other "add-ons" in the same spirit?
That's what I get for skimming... (Score:2)
The first time I read that I thought it said someone had put a screw in their right arm to attach accessories
then I realized they were talking about the right arm of the glasses not of the person.
useful accessory (Score:1)