Google's Project Glass Demo Video

Here is the demo video of how life may be like if we all begin to use Google's Project Glass!

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Gadgets of the future of Products of today?

What a difference a year makes!

Today I've been watching M:I4 starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who after being wrongly blamed for the bombing of the Kremlin has to stop a fanatic from using Russian nuclear submarine launch codes to start WWIII!

The film is gadget packed, something that James Bond has seem to have forgotten of late. What I found incredible is that there are 2 gadgets in the movie that up until this year were seen as pure sci-fi.

Up first is the contact lenses which scan for data and give valuable intel to the IMF agents when needed. When I first saw it I did think it was a bit OTT, but isn't this just exactly what Google's Project Glass is?

Then we have the famous masks which first appeared in the 1996 movie, which when I saw that back then it seemed so far out as to be ridiculous. However, in the recent movies they showed how the masks were made... and guess what? It is the same principle as 3D printers!




Truly remarkable!

It reminds me of the story of how the communicator in Star Trek inspired inventors to come up with the cellphone or mobile phone as we call it in the UK.

So I wonder what new things scriptwriters will come up with that will soon become reality.

Though the invisible Aston Martin from Die Another Day may take a while yet!

Project Glass to come in contact lens form?

Just as I predicted! Project Glass is now aiming for contact lenses which will have all the functionality of the Google Glasses we have seen before.

For more read this great article here with some vid clips also: http://www.webpronews.com/google-glass-like-contact-lenses-are-getting-closer-2012-12

I actually think this will be one of the biggest things ever. Perhaps not in the first couple of versions, but eventually when it becomes user friendly and not make everyone look like someone wearing a VR helmet. The benefits it can bring to travelling, for example, is quite incredible. You would never get lost in a strange city, and you would be able to get the right bus/train/metro without asking for help or trying to navigate maps. Anyone who has been to Japan will verify this! To navigate the Tokyo subway is something else, especially if you arrive at Haneda Airport (well outside the main train lines which you find in city guides) and then eventually have to make your way to Narita Airport (on the North side of Tokyo). Quite an experience. Oh and I experienced an earthquake while in Narita!

I would imagine future versions of Google Glass would link your Facebook, Twitter, and all your iPad/iPhone apps so you are a walking machine. How useful could this be?

I also wonder if we will see cars made in the near future with intelligent windscreens which have the satnav built into the actual glass? Now that would be cool, as long as it doesn’t block the view for the driver. Mind you we will all have driverless cars in 10 years!

New product development - Google Project Glass

Google's long awaited sci-fi glasses are on the way. The product is called Project Glass and involves users wearing special digital and wifi glasses which will relay lots of up to date information to the wearer such as translating place names into languages, giving directions, identifying wear certain products are being sold, or even helping you find a good restaurant or hotel.

The glasses may well end up playing music and even offer communication such as mobile phone and internet/email in the future.

It really could be a revolutionary product, which could even be reduced in future to contacts as some people have said they don't want to wear big glasses.

It has the whiff of the movie Minority Report about it, which had specialially targetted adverts playing for consumers as they walked by and their retina was scanned.

The future may well be here!

Read more here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17618495