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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow long after the first 'Google Glasses' are sold will a wearer die or kill someone...
...due to the distraction of wearing them
Not coming out soon, but Google seems to think they will actually sell them at some point.
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Five minutes | |
4 (57%) |
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15 minutes | |
1 (14%) |
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Half an hour | |
0 (0%) |
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An hour | |
0 (0%) |
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A day | |
1 (14%) |
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More than a day | |
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BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Hell, I want to strangle the people who meander around the grocery story with their heads twisted crooked so they can talk on their phone the whole time that are getting in everybody's way.
"Sup?
Not much.
I'm at the grocery store
Yeah, groceries suck.
No, not much
Broccoli really sucks
etc."
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)backtoblue
(11,346 posts)scary on so many levels that i hope it's one product that's never made.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)say so.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)I know the difference between sex and pictures of sex.
I know the difference between farming and playing the Farmville game.
Some of us are even able to somehow manage to get to the hardware store without needing a GPS.
This is just more of the systematic dumbing down of the national intellect.
Bunch of damn cattle we are producing.
I imagine cows are pretty happy -- until slaughter day.
backtoblue
(11,346 posts)Eww! I do not want to be walking next to someone watching porn on their glasses! The thing is...you'd never know they were even watching it!
leveymg
(36,418 posts)the most lethal and nauseating form of Gibson's information sickness.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)that crap to begin with?
Somebody will walk into a fountain at a mall or something, just like that person that was staring at their phone.
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)FSogol
(45,555 posts)Then you'd love them, right?
Well played.
Auggie
(31,207 posts)Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)Auggie
(31,207 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)'Google Glasses' are the endgame of looking like a douchebag.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Get a headess blue tooth headset.
Nope, not looking forwards to it.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)You have to turn them up so high, that I was afraid that I would hurt my ear.
If I am going to talk on my phone for more than a minute or two, I just use the EarPods that came with my iPhone.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But going to fires to cover them, yup, got the scanner on, but at times the boss needs to update.
Ron Green
(9,823 posts)some surgery.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Until the electronics actually can communicate with you in your mind, you'll still be the guy talking to yourself on the street or in a store.
Google, Where are the radishes?
Ugh.
randome
(34,845 posts)Bingo!
EastKYLiberal
(429 posts)It will make venturing into the abyss that is the public way more bearable.
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)right now
Amazing how much vitriol is amassed against people doing what they want to do and not caring about 'appearances'.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Guy falls off the rooftop and falls ten stories as Google has a glitch and tells him to step off it into thin air instead of taking the stairs.
I was thinking that looked awfully dangerous, playing ukulele while skyping with your girlfriend as you read a computer screen, while you stand one step away from a 10-story drop. Forget guns, those googles are deadly!
bowens43
(16,064 posts)do you guys have a horseless carriage yet?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's "Anti-that-piece-of-tech". There is a big difference. One can like some technologies and not others. Otherwise, being "pro-tech" would mean every piece of technology is equally good and useful, which is absurd.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)That doesn't mean I necessarily embrace every new gadget out of the gate as worthwhile.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)At least now, limited to just a smart phone, it's obvious when someone isn't paying attention.
irisblue
(33,036 posts)or the lens darkening glasses/sunglasses are needed? SRSLY?
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)onset.
I agree that there could be some safety issues. Information overload is one of them. Fighter pilots have a lot of training they go through to try to combat this as they have to simultaneously be looking out their window, checking what is going on in their heads up display on/near their window, checking out gauges on the instrument panel, and of course flying the plane and perhaps even engaging in vigorous maneuvers.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...four months someone will be killed wearing them. Within 15 months someone will kill with them on.
Within two 1/2 years, there will be an illicit trade in first-person videos involving the commission of a crime.
Oh, and almost forgot: Within 72 hours of being sold they'll be used to generate pornographic content.
Also, within 9 months of release, 1d4 low-budget filmmakers will use the concept as a gimmick, either for mystery, suspense or horror.
Edit: My word is prophecy.
PB
randome
(34,845 posts)"But what's that he's wearing?"
treestar
(82,383 posts)is there no end to this stuff? Can't we still walk around and yet think while doing so? I can check for the foot directions on the phone, which is cool, but I don't need it to be that easy.