They'll never be popular? I think the main impediment to wearable computing has been how socially awkward it is. If someone actually came up with a discrete, we

They'll never be popular? I think the main impediment to wearable computing has been how socially awkward it is. If someone actually came up with a discrete, well-designed glasses-based computer, I think it would be immensely popular. AR won't really come into it's own until such a platform exists. Holding a phone in front of your face is just too awkward. - read any language - never forget names - navigational aids (obviously) - identify any bird, plant, etc. - a whole raft of products just geared around augmenting the museum experience - look at a printed equation and see it solved - look at a printed question and see it answered (within certain constraints obviously) - look at binary, hexidecimal, etc. and see it converted to decimal - look at a color and see pantone and hex color codes - read existing printed books, but with access to immediate dictionary lookup, references, etc. I could go on and on... if this ever hits, the ramifications will be extraordinary.