Google Goggles?

[VTXFrank]

Take a look at this video:




I think this would be really cool. I can see a lot of uses for it.

However, I can see a lot of distracted drivers who can hardly drive with the tech we have today being even more distracted. I almost got rear ended by some stupid woman who was texting and driving. Had I of not checked my rear view mirror while slowing down, which has become a habit since moving to Florida, I wouldn't of gotten out of her way. I was just barely able to pull to the left turn lane as she went flying through the red light in front of me, oblivious until she was honked at by a guy in a truck about to enter the intersection. Where's a cop when you need one? But Google couldn't put a speed sensor on there to shut them off at speed because then people using public transportation wouldn't be able to use them during their ride to work. Or passengers in a car either.

If the tech is implemented well enough, I can see these being pretty popular. I would love to be able to use some features of my phone this way without having to walk around with my phone in front of my face.

 

[Sactown]

pretty neat stuff, but personally I have no desire to be that connected.

 

[Backroad_Beast]

Wow that would be pretty cool. I could definitely see it getting sketchy quick while driving though.

 

[dascoyne]

My feelings about Google are bittersweet.

Recently I found out that Google was looking for a physician to work as an onsite healthcare provider for their Mountain View HQ. They hire their own doctors to take care of their employees on site and they had a new opening. It's a sweet job with cool people and seems like a fun, positive working atmosphere.

The recruiter sent my application and they rejected me... why? Because I graduated from a foreign medical school.

It doesn't matter that I got my undergrad degree at UC Berkeley and worked under two Nobel Prize winners. It doesn't matter that, after medical school, I completed my medical residency at Brown University and ended up as the Chief Resident. It doesn't matter that I was an Assistant Clinical Instructor of Medicine on the Brown University Medical School faculty. It doesn't matter that I'm published in the fields of both Medicine and Physics or that I've appeared on television and the radio. It doesn't matter that I'm a pretty cool, and fun guy to hang out with. It doesn't matter that I have sufficient geek cred to hang with the Google folks. ... they only want thoroughbred ivy leaguers in their fold.

It woulda been a sweet gig.

 

[tjm73]

No thanks. I'm not down with being that connected to anything.

 

[ZmanM3]

My feelings about Google are bittersweet.

Recently I found out that Google was looking for a physician to work as an onsite healthcare provider for their Mountain View HQ. They hire their own doctors to take care of their employees on site and they had a new opening. It's a sweet job with cool people and seems like a fun, positive working atmosphere.

The recruiter sent my application and they rejected me... why? Because I graduated from a foreign medical school.

It doesn't matter that I got my undergrad degree at UC Berkeley and worked under two Nobel Prize winners. It doesn't matter that, after medical school, I completed my medical residency at Brown University and ended up as the Chief Resident. It doesn't matter that I was an Assistant Clinical Instructor of Medicine on the Brown University Medical School faculty. It doesn't matter that I'm published in the fields of both Medicine and Physics or that I've appeared on television and the radio. It doesn't matter that I'm a pretty cool, and fun guy to hang out with. It doesn't matter that I have sufficient geek cred to hang with the Google folks. ... they only want thoroughbred ivy leaguers in their fold.

It woulda been a sweet gig.

Where did you go to school? Sounds like you have way more education then what is needed for that paltry Google position.

 

[Tungsten Stang]

I believe that a device like this will be implanted in you'r head in the future.
Instead of wearing glasses these icons will appear in the vision of one eye.
Text, web searches, phone calls, scheduling, etc. all hands free.

 

[cwhit23]

Very interesting. I can see it being a huge distraction while driving, but I can see some uses would be pretty awesome.

 

[bigray327]

Very cool technology. Can't wait.

BTW, Google Goggles is the name of the existing app that scans whatever your camera sees and tells you what it is. Amazing app.

 

[Charlie Sheen]

Wow. Google does all of our thinking for us. Consider the outcome...

 

[fdjizm]

Way too connected like was said above, people need to put cell phones down bad enough, this would make walking zombies.

 

[ZmanM3]

Hmm, just for Android, what about the iphone???

 

[dascoyne]

Hmm, just for Android, what about the iphone???

They will call it the "eye-phone".

 

[ford20]

They will call it the "eye-phone".

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[Seer]

Google Project Glass

I cannot wait until this becomes available.

https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147#111626127367496192147/posts

 

[stkjock]

You were treed

 

[bigray327]

Wow. Google does all of our thinking for us. Consider the outcome...

You didn't watch the video, did you?

Hmm, just for Android, what about the iphone???

Who cares about the iPhone? They're for hipsters, girls, and old people that don't know better.

 

[Redfire_WNL]

Dascoyne you have a pretty good resume there. These things will be too much for me too affird I bet

 

[Seer]

You were treed

more like I just fell asleep at the line.

 

[Charlie Sheen]

You didn't watch the video, did you?

Yes, I did.