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One thing I can't understand is: If most people use wired headsets, with their phones, iPods, MP3 Players.... why can't Google Glass use a wire, so you can have

by molmalo 12y ago

One thing I can't understand is: If most people use wired headsets, with their phones, iPods, MP3 Players.... why can't Google Glass use a wire, so you can have a much bigger battery in your pocket, and a much thinner frame in you head? I think that's their biggest error with their current design. If you can only use this device for a very short time, it's going to be a failure.

mattlutze 12y ago
I'd not buy one with a wire. If the current Glass is conspicuous without one, imagine how much more it will be when there's a wire running awkwardly down from your glasses. Plus, I can't count how many times I'm out in the world with an earbud in and the cable gets snagged on something. The first time that happened with the Glass and the quick-release didn't let go, there goes my glasses and Glass, leaving me blind and out hundreds/thousands of dollars. Like many, I imagine if I were to buy one it would be with corrective lenses, which means then I would have to carry a second pair of normal glasses with me so I can put the Glass away when I'm indoors -- while it may be alright to put your headphones in when you're outside on the street, I'm not 16 anymore and can't get away with looking like I've got my earbud in sitting at my desk or having lunch with a colleague. A cord would solve a problem with old technology. The point of this is to do things a new way.
eps 12y ago
Their biggest error by a very large margin is adding a camera to the device.
- cookiecaper 12y ago
  Aren't many of Glass's most interesting functions dependent on a camera? I don't really think Glass makes people more recordable, it just makes that recordability more obvious, and therefore makes people less comfortable. Maybe it'd be a good thing to cope with the reality that we're always under watch these days.
  - throwaway7767 12y ago
    Normalising having cameras pointed at you certainly makes people more recordable. Of course, you could point to ubiquitous CCTV and other public place cameras, and you would be right - and I have a problem with that development as well. But those are (at least where I live) required to be clearly marked so I can avoid going to those places if I so choose.
- ulfw 12y ago
  There really isn't much day-to-day functionality left without it.

by molmalo 12y ago

mattlutze 12y ago

I'd not buy one with a wire. If the current Glass is conspicuous without one, imagine how much more it will be when there's a wire running awkwardly down from your glasses. Plus, I can't count how many times I'm out in the world with an earbud in and the cable gets snagged on something. The first time that happened with the Glass and the quick-release didn't let go, there goes my glasses and Glass, leaving me blind and out hundreds/thousands of dollars. Like many, I imagine if I were to buy one it would be with corrective lenses, which means then I would have to carry a second pair of normal glasses with me so I can put the Glass away when I'm indoors -- while it may be alright to put your headphones in when you're outside on the street, I'm not 16 anymore and can't get away with looking like I've got my earbud in sitting at my desk or having lunch with a colleague. A cord would solve a problem with old technology. The point of this is to do things a new way.

eps 12y ago

Their biggest error by a very large margin is adding a camera to the device.

cookiecaper 12y ago
Aren't many of Glass's most interesting functions dependent on a camera? I don't really think Glass makes people more recordable, it just makes that recordability more obvious, and therefore makes people less comfortable. Maybe it'd be a good thing to cope with the reality that we're always under watch these days.
- throwaway7767 12y ago
  Normalising having cameras pointed at you certainly makes people more recordable. Of course, you could point to ubiquitous CCTV and other public place cameras, and you would be right - and I have a problem with that development as well. But those are (at least where I live) required to be clearly marked so I can avoid going to those places if I so choose.
ulfw 12y ago
There really isn't much day-to-day functionality left without it.