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I have always wondered where are following hardware hidden in this design: 1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it? 2. It probably requires some sort
by gnufied 14y ago
I have always wondered where are following hardware hidden in this design:
1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it?
2. It probably requires some sort of 3G/4G card and connection? Where the heck does it fit?
3. Batteries! Where are those? Are they solar charged?
I understand people who are saying, it is not that much of a big deal just miniaturization of existing technologies but if all above 3 fit in that glass frame, I am genuinely amazed. If anyone who have used Google glass and can chime-in, that will be awesome.
- jonknee 14y agoThe guts appear to be in the fat side.
- sparkinson 14y agoI would have thought it'd pair with your phone, with the phone doing all the hard work. The glasses really just being a display and recorder.
- risratorn 14y agoThat would indeed be the most obvious way to go, it would also make the device more powerful down the road since the computing is done on a smartphone which only get faster and faster by the year.
- guruz 14y agoI'd say the computing is done "in the cloud". Low power transmission to your phone, then to the google datacenter. It seems cool from a technology point, but I'm not sure I want to trust Google (and thereby the US Government) my life. Or am I doing that already by using Google Search and GMail?
- Ixiaus 14y agoYeah, we're all doing it already. At this point it's more about managing what I do online then it is about avoiding using the services. Google Glass will be massively popular with the active crowd (kind of how the GoCam got its big break) - I would personally use it in place of recording videos with my phone! I would not wear it all the time though, that's ridiculous.
- ShawnBird 14y agoI am sure that that is going to be the product that actually takes off. Google Glass will probably fail (at least the first iteration) but give some data for the next attempt. Then when Apple comes out with iGlasses everyone can act impressed.
- qompiler 14y ago> 1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it? Atmel has micro-controllers that include the whole "shebang" the size of your pinkies fingernail! > 2. It probably requires some sort of 3G/4G card and connection? Where the heck does it fit? micro-SIM card! > 3. Batteries! Where are those? Are they solar charged? Low power means small batteries!
- curiousdannii 14y ago2: Right next to your brain, the safest place for a radio transmitter to be!
- leephillips 14y agoNotice how you never see the wearer's whole torso in the promotional videos? All that stuff is in a 12 lb. backpack. It's color coordinated with the glasses.
- jff 14y agoDon't be a damn idiot. It's in a housing on the same side as the display, it kind of balances at your ear. I've worn a pair, I didn't have to put on some sort of massive backpack.
- leephillips 14y agoYou're lucky. They've made a lot of progress. The beta model really made my lumbago flare up.
- nazgulnarsil 14y agowhy isn't there an additional battery on the other side to balance them out?