Google Glass and Augmented Reality
Google has now unveiled features of its Google Glass, a wearable glasses that does a lot of clever stuff. Augmented reality is definitely the way forward. Already with our Smart Phones, we use technology to complement more and more aspects of our lives. But taking out the phone from your pocket to check the map, to look up a restaurant, to surf the Internet or to take a picture is still a clumsy process. The device is very detached and we need to look for it when we need to use it. Which is why a wearable glasses that can provide some of the Smart Phone functions real time may be desirable. Having said that, any glasses wearer would tell you it is not a piece of accessory that they would choose to wear, given a choice. It is not so convenient when doing sports, and historically glasses have not done well as a fashionable item. I can see people wear these devices for work or when at home. It w ould be more challenging to convince people to wear one of these when g