Google glasses make sense as the “next” mobile device. How Will the New Wave of Wearable Tech Transform Society? When lawmakers consider banning something before it’s even hit the market, it’s clear that it has the potential to be truly disruptive.
However, a politician in West Virginia looking to ban the use of devices Google" href=" Google Glass while driving is just the tip of an iceberg. Devices like Glass could well change society immensely over the next next few years. What devices are we talking about? Glass is the obvious flagship here, with its ability to snap and upload pictures and video live from a scene, not to mention its contextual alerts and the apps it can run but there’s the Memoto, too.
This wearable camera is due to launch in the next few weeks, it will snap a photograph every thirty seconds throughout the day, candidly capturing whatever the wearer is doing. Memoto You may or may not object to government and police-controlled CCTV cameras tracking what we do, but we’re about to enter a world where anyone could be tracking everything you do with cameras you may not be aware of. Google Glass and wearable tech: This is a game-changer, not a fad. It’s easy to identify something that’s going to take the world by storm.
Just look for the product that’s quickest to be labelled a fad. To be discounted is a serious concern. But we can look directly at a few examples from the past decade that have redefined the world and the way that we look at it. Almost every single one of them was quickly slandered by the media before becoming a runaway success. In 2001, the question was asked “could the electronic textbook take the world by storm?” The walkman gave birth to a device that can store 16,000 songs. Google took the wraps off Glass recently and announced the opportunity for a handful of people to win a pair through its “if I had glass competition” along with those developers that pre-ordered a pair last year. In a word, it’s breathtaking to imagine. Google Glass Ban Underscores Privacy Concerns Months Before Futuristic Specs Are Even Released. David Meinert wasn't expecting his Facebook post to draw the attention of the international media.
After all, he'd only spent about 20 seconds thinking about the post, which said that Google Glass, the much-hyped augmented reality spectacles scheduled to be released later this year, wouldn't be permitted in his Seattle bar and diner, The 5 Point Cafe. But the March 5 message, which noted the diner would be "the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses" and that "ass kickings will be encouraged for violators," received quite a bit of attention.
A search in Google News for "5 Point Google Glass," for example, returns nearly 30,000 results, and publications in Russia, India, South America and throughout Europe have picked up the piece. Meinert told KIRO that while the ban was partly in jest "to be funny on Facebook and get reaction," it had a serious message: 5 Point patrons "definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the internet. "