Google Goggles could soon become a set of physical goggles if murmurings from within the company are true. Could this be the death knell for smart phones?
Google’s heads-up-display project, Google X, is certainly a head turning idea, matching up the kind of heads-up-display you’d associate with video games or movies with a real world of glasses that we’re told look like Oakley Thumps. A new report suggests that we might see them at retail by the end of the year.
Iron Man’s HUD display is one of the cooler effects in sci-fi movies, and Google X is apparently pretty darn close to cramming similar tech in a pair of glasses you can buy in the real world.
Video eyewear hasn’t been the most practical — or even quality — technology to emerge over the past 10 years, but it still carries an essence of the future with it. And while they’re not any more practical, Lumus Technologies’ 720p DK-32 see-through video eyewear struck enough of a balance between picture quality, wearability and that future factor for my enjoyment.
Hey! Four eyes! Sick of having to tilt your head to read stuff with your bi-focals? Then you need to geek up your specs. The EmPower! glasses do just that, electronically adjusting the focal point of the glasses as quickly as you can blink your eye.
If you fancy yourself an amateur Bond, there are plenty of high-tech glasses available that discreetly hide a compact camera. This isn’t one of them. In fact, these Fuuvi Megane glasses aren’t going to fool anyone.
Video glasses are a pretty dorky vision of the future. I mean, put on a pair of blockers so you can watch video by yourself? A little bit anti-social, are we? Lumus wants to help a little bit by making glasses which let you watch video and see through the lens too.
