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Is Google Working on High-tech Spectacles?

Posted December 20, 2011 10:13 AM

From CNET News:

Revenge of the nerd glasses! The search giant is said to be creating eyewear that would tap into the cloud to display details about the wearer's surroundings. Similar in concept to the glasses worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the "Terminator" movies, the high-tech specs purportedly would tap into Google's cloud-based location services to convey details about the user's surroundings. The visual information would then appear as a 3D augmented reality computer display.

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Re: Is Google Working on High-tech Spectacles?

12/21/2011 7:39 AM

The T-800 never wore glasses with an inbuilt HUD, he wore normal shades. The HUDs are in his eyes.

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Re: Is Google Working on High-tech Spectacles?

12/21/2011 10:42 AM

I don't think Google is working on Lasik++ just yet.

(although I found serendipitously*, someone does have a LasikPlus website)

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*perhaps more zemblanitous** than serendipitous.

**(It was serendipity when I discovered the term "zemblanity")

Interesting article:

When Serendipity becomes Zemblanity

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