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Details of Google's Project Glass revealed in FCC report
- rikacomet 14y ago"You are not authorized to access this page." on FCC :( I wonder why they are going with something like bone-conductor, instead of normal Bluetooth headset type set-up, when it is actually not good at the only thing it should do: Sound good !
- tjbiddle 14y agoI think it's just the trade off here. You want a fairly seamless experience when putting on the glasses - so headphones would distract from that; also when having to choose between good quality from the device as opposed to good quality when speaking to others normally, I'd prefer the latter. But who knows - maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised and have good quality audio all around!
- rikacomet 14y agoI'm hopeful too; Too bad about the FCC images not being published by BBC
- jfoster 14y agoDon't bone conductors work better in noisy places? They're used on the Bridge Climb in Sydney for some reason like this.
- jrockway 14y agoI'm not sure that the goal for Glass v1 is audiophile-quality music reproduction. I think a more realistic goal is to make sure that you can use the device without annoying others with audio leaking out. With that in mind, bone conduction makes sense. (Actually, I've never used a bone-conduction headset, so I don't know if it's any good. But the idea seems promising to me.)
- CrazedGeek 14y agoI have a pair of bone conduction headphones, and sound leaking out is definitely a problem. The advantage of bone conduction is that it doesn't block sound from the outside world like normal headphones do.
- StavrosK 14y agoBecause you're meant to wear these glasses all day, and blocking outside sound is not very desirable.
- meaty 14y agoWatch this before you consider one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29 Season 1 Episode 3: The Entire History Of You
- psbp 14y agoWatch a paranoid melodrama slighting the product before I consider it? Why not just reasonably consider its possible significance in your life?
- mquander 14y agoThe parent just linked to a half-hour long TV show which does a reasonably thoughtful job at depicting the possible significance of ubiquitous recording in people's lives. Is this not the right kind of considering, or what?
- defrost 14y agoIt's not a new consideration; Bob Shaw’s 1972 book Other Days, Other Eyes does a credible job of looking at a world with ubiquitous recording - a cheap dust like recording medium is crop dusted across entire countries with the result that it can be hoovered up and played back to show whatever took place in the vicinity. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/slow-glass-seen-from-all-around-bob-shaws-other-days-other-eyes http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/slow-glass-seen-from-all-ar...
- mquander 14y agoAlso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
- abecedarius 14y agoI wear hearing aids. The bone conduction had better be optional.
- tantalor 14y agoWhat exactly is your complaint? Surely you could mute the device?
- abecedarius 14y agoUnless the sound is available as an audio out pluggable into a hearing aid (or a hearing-aid replacement), it's useless to me beyond basic boop-beep.
- taligent 14y agoI still don't understand why nobody is talking about the legal and social issues around the video recording capabilities of the Google Glasses. Which so far looks like its only real use case. It is illegal to record someone without permission in particular on private property. It is illegal to record children. There are major implications if illegal activity is recorded. Are you responsible if you don't notify police about a crime. Then there are the myriad of social concerns. If you record me and for privacy reasons I want the video erased how can I do so ? Or am I forced to remove the glasses from your head and destroy them? Just like smartphones are required to make a noise when taking a photo I wonder whether there should be a red LED light to indicate when recording is occurring or a button to erase the last 5 minutes of video.
- kenjackson 14y agoJust like smartphones are required to make a noise when taking a photo I'm pretty sure that just about every smartphone allows you to mute the shutter sound.
- taligent 14y agoNot on iOS IIRC. And it definitely is a law that ALL smartphones make that sound in many countries e.g. Japan, South Korea.
- veidr 14y agoOn my Japanese iPhone (and all Japanese phones) the sound cannot be disabled; on my American iPhone, it can.
- raldi 14y agoiPhones in vibrate mode make no shutter sound.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoNot in Japan.