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Google Goggle - Decoding Google Glass

Looks like your high-end smartphone may soon be redundant and out of fashion! How about a pair of slim glasses which lets you text, mail, listen to music, take pictures, get the latest weather reports – while on the move? It’s augmented reality and wearable technology we are talking about!
NamedGoogle Project Glass, the deceptively simple sci-fi type pair of glasses is a concept device from Google X, the secret lab of Google.
In a Google+ post, the Googlers behind the concept wrote, "A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We're sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do."
The digital prototype glasses in the video, a user looks down with the glasses on and several Google icons appear before him - Google+, time, calendar, temperature, location, chat, camera and some more. Meeting reminders pop up and text messages come in while he continues with his breakfast. Without a pause on his breakfast, he sends off a voice activated response.
As he leaves his house, the Project Glass device alerts him of a subway disruption. He switches to walking directions which automatically pops up arrows when he is supposed to take a turn. Coming across a poster of concert, he asks the Project Glass device to remind him to buy tickets. Arriving at a bookstore, he asks the device the location of his friend, and finds he’s just at 402 feet. They go for a bite at a food truck and take pictures and share them online with ever touching the device. He later uses the device for a video chat with a friend.
The augmented reality device with a display barely inches from your right eye is bound to pop some serious questions to the makers – what about people with focus issues in their eyes, or, how about people who want the glasses on their left?
Questions as well as suggestions are endless. So are the think-tanks behind the device open to suggestions and feedback. On Project Glass’s Google+ page:  “Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?”
Technology that could find space in the device just might include – motion sensors, face recognition, wireless capability, GPS and much talked about Google’s augmented reality software. It might as well act as your own ‘customized’ personal manager!
The Google X team is taking technology to the next level, but they definitely have their eyes on big financial returns.
This latest development at Google sure does ring a bell to the makers of the latest iPhone with the Siri digital assistant which takes spoken commands to do several tasks.
Though unclear when the glasses will be commercially available, we can speculate it around the end of the year – going by the philosophy of the Google Group to develop technologies that can be put to use in a short period of time.

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