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Google applies for another Glass patent, controlling your home

11 points by infoman 14y ago

greg_mazurek 14y ago
There's an assumption here that if you're going to be using your Google Glasses to open a garage door, you'd presumably be wearing them while you're driving. I hope they finish driver-less cars first. Other uses listed in the patent include: "For example, target device 14 could be a household appliance or device, such as a refrigerator, television, dishwasher, audio system, video system, alarm system, thermostat, garage door, etc. Alternatively, target device 14 could be an office appliance or device, such as a copy machine, fax machine, projection system, security system, etc. Other examples of target device 14 are also possible." http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=14&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(20130321.PD.+AND+Google.AS.)%mtsegdgt&OS=PD/20130321+AND+AN/Google&RS=(PD/20130321+AND+AN/Google http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
- myko 14y ago
  Why wouldn't one wear them while driving? One of my first ideas for Glass is to act as a HUD for driving information. Especially for motorcyclists, having speed information and even rear view camera easily within your field of vision sounds like an excellent use of this technology.
  - rimantas 14y ago
    The most important information while driving is in front of you and not on a HUD.
    - psbp 14y ago
      Wouldn't a HUD be less of an obstruction to your field of vision rather than multiple controls and readings spread throughout your dashboard?
    - jbri 14y ago
      There's also some nice-to-have information on the dashboard, which is why the dashboard is placed where the driver can easily see it. Having your speedometer on a HUD instead of a dashboard does not make someone incapable of paying attention to the road.
    - phaylon 14y ago
      I think that is actually his point. If you don't have to turn your head to the side to look back, at your speed, etc., the road ahead stays at least in your peripheral vision, at most an eye movement away. I mean, have you seen how some people fiddle with their radios while driving? Personally, I'd be happy if at least a part of those people had the chance to keep their eyes on front while they do that. I might be biased though, due to the german speed limits and not being a driver myself :)
    - darkarmani 14y ago
      What about checking your blindspots? My 2005 subaru outback has terrible visibility when trying to look back and left (the posts somehow block most of the view). On highway merges, my spouse helps check the blindspot for me or I ask her to look ahead while i crane my neck around.
darxius 14y ago
> Google applies for another Glass patent. controlling your homw Do people even take the time to proofread their titles before submitting?
kunai 14y ago
Is this seriously the future? Where people are so lazy they can't use any strength at all to open a fridge or pressing a goddamn button to open a garage? Guess I should have seen it coming. I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives. Only because it's not technology. It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. Stop the madness. /old person rant
- infoman 14y ago
  Y U NO walk to wallmart? Why do you drive by car?
  - kunai 14y ago
    I do walk to the local grocery store. I don't own a car.
- devcpp 14y ago
  >I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives. That's kind of strong... >It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. You seem to believe that humans are supposed to use their muscles to do stuff. But why should we not voluntarily "evolve" to become intelligences that control our environment through our brains and harness it through minimal interactions? Is our goal not to discover everything and discard unimportant distractions such as opening the fridge and going to the mall from the seeking of knowledge? It's a matter of opinions, but just remember that this is not intrinsincally bad. If we can alter our bodies to become detached from physical needs such as feeding, sleeping and everything that we do to prevent our deaths, I can say I'd embrace it.
  - kunai 14y ago
    I admit, the suicide part was far-fetched, but tell me once that you'd like to sit in front of a computer all day, absorbing knowledge endlessly. No food. No walking. No sleeping. No sex. Tell me that you would want that. Who wants to be a brain?
bhauer 14y ago
Sounds like a modernized X10 (which I haven't seen much of since the 1980s).
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11 points by infoman 14y ago

There's an assumption here that if you're going to be using your Google Glasses to open a garage door, you'd presumably be wearing them while you're driving. I hope they finish driver-less cars first. Other uses listed in the patent include: "For example, target device 14 could be a household appliance or device, such as a refrigerator, television, dishwasher, audio system, video system, alarm system, thermostat, garage door, etc. Alternatively, target device 14 could be an office appliance or device, such as a copy machine, fax machine, projection system, security system, etc. Other examples of target device 14 are also possible." http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=14&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(20130321.PD.+AND+Google.AS.)%mtsegdgt&OS=PD/20130321+AND+AN/Google&RS=(PD/20130321+AND+AN/Google http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

myko 14y ago
Why wouldn't one wear them while driving? One of my first ideas for Glass is to act as a HUD for driving information. Especially for motorcyclists, having speed information and even rear view camera easily within your field of vision sounds like an excellent use of this technology.
- rimantas 14y ago
  The most important information while driving is in front of you and not on a HUD.
  - psbp 14y ago
    Wouldn't a HUD be less of an obstruction to your field of vision rather than multiple controls and readings spread throughout your dashboard?
  - jbri 14y ago
    There's also some nice-to-have information on the dashboard, which is why the dashboard is placed where the driver can easily see it. Having your speedometer on a HUD instead of a dashboard does not make someone incapable of paying attention to the road.
  - phaylon 14y ago
    I think that is actually his point. If you don't have to turn your head to the side to look back, at your speed, etc., the road ahead stays at least in your peripheral vision, at most an eye movement away. I mean, have you seen how some people fiddle with their radios while driving? Personally, I'd be happy if at least a part of those people had the chance to keep their eyes on front while they do that. I might be biased though, due to the german speed limits and not being a driver myself :)
  - darkarmani 14y ago
    What about checking your blindspots? My 2005 subaru outback has terrible visibility when trying to look back and left (the posts somehow block most of the view). On highway merges, my spouse helps check the blindspot for me or I ask her to look ahead while i crane my neck around.

darxius 14y ago

> Google applies for another Glass patent. controlling your homw Do people even take the time to proofread their titles before submitting?

kunai 14y ago

Is this seriously the future? Where people are so lazy they can't use any strength at all to open a fridge or pressing a goddamn button to open a garage? Guess I should have seen it coming. I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives. Only because it's not technology. It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. Stop the madness. /old person rant

infoman 14y ago
Y U NO walk to wallmart? Why do you drive by car?
- kunai 14y ago
  I do walk to the local grocery store. I don't own a car.
devcpp 14y ago
>I'll commit suicide long before this kind of "technology" arrives. That's kind of strong... >It does nothing to advance the human race except make them lazier. You seem to believe that humans are supposed to use their muscles to do stuff. But why should we not voluntarily "evolve" to become intelligences that control our environment through our brains and harness it through minimal interactions? Is our goal not to discover everything and discard unimportant distractions such as opening the fridge and going to the mall from the seeking of knowledge? It's a matter of opinions, but just remember that this is not intrinsincally bad. If we can alter our bodies to become detached from physical needs such as feeding, sleeping and everything that we do to prevent our deaths, I can say I'd embrace it.
- kunai 14y ago
  I admit, the suicide part was far-fetched, but tell me once that you'd like to sit in front of a computer all day, absorbing knowledge endlessly. No food. No walking. No sleeping. No sex. Tell me that you would want that. Who wants to be a brain?

bhauer 14y ago

Sounds like a modernized X10 (which I haven't seen much of since the 1980s).

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