How long after the first 'Google Glasses' are sold will a wearer die or kill someone...

[onehandle]

...due to the distraction of wearing them

Not coming out soon, but Google seems to think they will actually sell them at some point.

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[BlueStreak]

1. You left off my option. I want to kill the guy wearing those things.

Hell, I want to strangle the people who meander around the grocery story with their heads twisted crooked so they can talk on their phone the whole time that are getting in everybody's way.

"Sup?



Not much.




I'm at the grocery store




Yeah, groceries suck.




No, not much




Broccoli really sucks



etc."

[Safetykitten]

4. Agree, may just slap the shit out of them though. So precious, so affected, so all around obnoxious.

[backtoblue]

2. before long, no one would know the difference between real and digital

scary on so many levels that i hope it's one product that's never made.

[The Wielding Truth]

35. Would the video just go out to the person calling? I would hate to be on an open feed and have no

say so.

[BlueStreak]

36. I don't think so

I know the difference between sex and pictures of sex.

I know the difference between farming and playing the Farmville game.

Some of us are even able to somehow manage to get to the hardware store without needing a GPS.

This is just more of the systematic dumbing down of the national intellect.

Bunch of damn cattle we are producing.

I imagine cows are pretty happy -- until slaughter day.

[backtoblue]

43. I did not think of that first line...

Eww! I do not want to be walking next to someone watching porn on their glasses! The thing is...you'd never know they were even watching it!

[leveymg]

3. Cause of death will be advertising overdose,

the most lethal and nauseating form of Gibson's information sickness.

[HappyMe]

5. Who the hell would want

that crap to begin with?




Somebody will walk into a fountain at a mall or something, just like that person that was staring at their phone.

[Safetykitten]

6. Everyone.

[FSogol]

7. What if they were I-Glasses from Apple?

Then you'd love them, right?

[HappyMe]

10. lol!

Well played.

[Auggie]

11. Apple is reportedly developing something for the wrist

[Safetykitten]

12. Apple will have the wearer hoold their wrist up to their face as an Apple salute.

[Auggie]

31. Funny

[onehandle]

14. I don't wear bluetooth headsets. I don't use Siri on my iPhone.

'Google Glasses' are the endgame of looking like a douchebag.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. This year I will have to, for work,

Get a headess blue tooth headset.

Nope, not looking forwards to it.

[onehandle]

19. I tried a few out of curiosity, but even the 'best' ones sound terrible.

You have to turn them up so high, that I was afraid that I would hurt my ear.

If I am going to talk on my phone for more than a minute or two, I just use the EarPods that came with my iPhone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. That is the other choice

But going to fires to cover them, yup, got the scanner on, but at times the boss needs to update.

[Ron Green]

17. I think the Endgame may involve

some surgery.

[onehandle]

20. Agreed. But at least that wouldn't be visible.

Until the electronics actually can communicate with you in your mind, you'll still be the guy talking to yourself on the street or in a store.

Google, Where are the radishes?

Ugh.

[randome]

37. 'Douchebaggery' derives from the person inside, not what he/she sports on the outside.

[trotsky]

27. LMFAO!

Bingo!

[EastKYLiberal]

8. I can't wait for my pair.

It will make venturing into the abyss that is the public way more bearable.

[Safetykitten]

13. I have an idea, how about an "iBag" over their heads? Ask passerby to describe life outside.

[bunnies]

25. lmao!!!

[tblue]

30. HAHAHA!!!

[madokie]

9. I want a pair

right now

[randome]

16. Me, too!

Amazing how much vitriol is amassed against people doing what they want to do and not caring about 'appearances'.

[Puzzledtraveller]

18. Just like this caused some people to become "cockeyed"

[onehandle]

21. Seriously, the eyestrain from focusing between your lenses and the world can't be good for your eyes

[Puzzledtraveller]

22. :D

[Ikonoklast]

23. They edited that commercial.

Guy falls off the rooftop and falls ten stories as Google has a glitch and tells him to step off it into thin air instead of taking the stairs.

[tblue]

34. Haha!

I was thinking that looked awfully dangerous, playing ukulele while skyping with your girlfriend as you read a computer screen, while you stand one step away from a 10-story drop. Forget guns, those googles are deadly!

[bowens43]

26. Amazed at all the anti-tech people here......

do you guys have a horseless carriage yet?

[arcane1]

32. Having a negative opinion toward one piece of technology isn't "anti-tech"

It's "Anti-that-piece-of-tech". There is a big difference. One can like some technologies and not others. Otherwise, being "pro-tech" would mean every piece of technology is equally good and useful, which is absurd.

[IDemo]

38. I've worked in high tech for years

That doesn't mean I necessarily embrace every new gadget out of the gate as worthwhile.

[arcane1]

28. Somewhere between walking out of the store, and having their first conversation with someone

At least now, limited to just a smart phone, it's obvious when someone isn't paying attention.

[irisblue]

29. whats gonna happen when the bifocals are needed?

or the lens darkening glasses/sunglasses are needed? SRSLY?

[stevenleser]

33. Virtually every consumer tech ever invented had folks saying "why would anyone want that" at the

onset.

I agree that there could be some safety issues. Information overload is one of them. Fighter pilots have a lot of training they go through to try to combat this as they have to simultaneously be looking out their window, checking what is going on in their heads up display on/near their window, checking out gauges on the instrument panel, and of course flying the plane and perhaps even engaging in vigorous maneuvers.

[onehandle]

39. The reality of Google Glasses --->

[Poll_Blind]

40. Within 8 weeks someone will die of natural causes while wearing them, and within...

...four months someone will be killed wearing them. Within 15 months someone will kill with them on.

Within two 1/2 years, there will be an illicit trade in first-person videos involving the commission of a crime.

Oh, and almost forgot: Within 72 hours of being sold they'll be used to generate pornographic content.

Also, within 9 months of release, 1d4 low-budget filmmakers will use the concept as a gimmick, either for mystery, suspense or horror.

Edit: My word is prophecy.

PB

[randome]

41. "Your honor, the defendant says he was nowhere NEAR an electrical device."

"But what's that he's wearing?"

[treestar]

42. Cool toy but

is there no end to this stuff? Can't we still walk around and yet think while doing so? I can check for the foot directions on the phone, which is cool, but I don't need it to be that easy.