Why Google Glass is the most personal tech you'll never own

Comment with tablets and TVs safely in the " shared technology " Google troubling glass extends to the nature of the " technical team " to a whole new level.

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I'll start with a confession : My adventure started with the Google Glass banal just pure curiosity.

On a cold autumn Sunday morning in the Lower West Side of New York, I entered the world famous Chelsea market and makes a straight line easy to lose the eighth floor elevator . I was there to collect the gadgets that I know you can never make the light of day in its current incarnation around $ 1,600.

In recent weeks , I have filled the man and machine with Google 's latest creation . This mobile technology is not new, and not exactly original in its design or concept we've seen in science fiction for years. But the emerging sense of " what's next " led me to deepen my wallet for something in this new disruptive category of gadgets.

Inside the glass prism

Unlike a regular set of glasses, glass micro -display Google resting above your line of sight occupies the first goal. For holders of ordinary glasses , a new pair can feel intrusive and attention at first, but eventually feels natural and a part of you .

The glass of port is a very different feeling . Time required for glass to become a natural and logical extension of what you see and how you interact with the physical world in front of you .

Although this is not to be someone on the street of Manhattan eye contact with you, it's still unbearably uncomfortable knowing full well that you have a new unknown device in head feeling . Glass, I was involved with the timidity and shyness , and my confidence melted quickly.

It was almost every moment of the public face (and even with the comfort of our own living writing nerd ) I am always looking and thinking how silly I looked. But unlike a regular pair of glasses that become a part of you , the exo - in terms of how we look at others , many rarely consider , never disappears.

There was a glimmer of hope : the glass quickly begins to deny other behaviors that almost all smartphone owners in the Western world suffer endlessly : how many times a day you take out your smartphone to verify that received messages? A dozen or two - maybe even three ? Probably a lot more done.

In moments when you're bored or waiting for someone , or avoid a bad time , or conscious control or sending status - it's almost subliminal .

Glass is still there . You are aware of this at any time . It does not slip or blend in , and this is darkly addictive. Not only is always available , it is literally always - in your opinion, to the front of your mind , and physically still pressing gently against his temples.

Content " cocoon "

There are two physical parts of glass : viewing prism is seen, and the strange object that others see you . Unlike a smartphone that can be viewed by several people at the same time , glass cocoons you in a virtual reality of their own content and communication.

Although you are encouraged to talk to the device as his personal assistant head mounted , you do not have every command "OK glass." The bezel is navigable by clicking and dragging the motion sensor device