Google Glass

Ah, Google Glass. When the hype of wearable technologies started on early 2013, Google was already developing this. They have been releasing teaser photos and news about their product, and when it was finally released to the consumer public, it was quite successful. So what is it, really?

The Google Glass is a wearable computer (in the form of a glass, hence, the name) with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that is being developed by Google in their Project Glass research and development project. Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like handsfree format which communicates via natural language voice commands. Pretty neat if you ask me, actually.

This is an amazing piece of technology, but no technology is perfect. And if I'm given one, I would probably rarely wear it (or not wear it at all) in public. Why? Well first, it looks ridiculous. I'm sorry, but I just don't like the way it looks now. It's not something I deem "fashionable". Second, I've been reading and hearing different things about the device. One of the things that I've heard is that it is always "on", and always "on" means that you can't probably use it for the whole day since there will be battery issues. Also, since it's always on, you might get more distracted instead of getting more focused and more productive (I think people call this the "Segway Problem").

To sum it up, the Google Glass sure is an interesting piece of technology. It still needs a lot of studies and improvements though. What I hope this technology would do is provide an avenue for users to focus more on their tasks and thus, be more productive than get more distracted. Google needs to prioritize this first.