Where is the app from a few years back, where you pointed your phone camera at some text and it switched it with a translated version of it live in-picture ?<p>Not only did it look awesome, but it would also be a perfect application for google's glass. Imagine, you're in berlin, or tokyo, or madrid, you read the menu in a restaurant and you have the exact translation displayed to you live in the corner of your view ? Or in a museum, etc ..
The fireside chat had an interesting moment where they showed Glass on prescriptions glasses, which made them slightly more inconspicuous I thought - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8OUSd8zqT4&feature=youtu.be&t=5m11s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8OUSd8zqT4&feature=youtu...</a>
I like the Sharingan logo, very apropos. In Naruto, the Uchiha clan derives their powers from having special eyes. A three-prong pupil indicates that the bearer unlocked extremely powerful abilities by killing somebody very close to them, usually a best friend.
Saw some people with them at maker faire, you still have to interrupt a conversation to take a picture and whatnot. I'm waiting (read: hacking at it) for Neurosky integration, or at least blink-pattern reading.
Google Glass only needs to get over its initial days in which it is viewed as awkward and then it will be socially acceptable. Unlike the first cellphones, its plainly visible even when you're not using it, and like Bluetooth headsets there's a risk of being perceived as someone not caring about their surroundings.<p>Even on a forum like Slashdot which is populated by uber-geeks, here's the results of an ongoing poll with ~5000 people voting.<p>Head-mounted displays / sensors like Google Glass are:<p>Creepy 1823 votes / 32%<p>Cool 821 votes / 14%<p>Ugly 502 votes / 8%<p>Baffling 323 votes / 5%<p>Intriguing 1498 votes / 26%<p>Short-sighted 413 votes / 7%<p>I've got my own adjective! (Explained in comments.) 208 votes / 3%<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/poll/2577/head-mounted-displays--sensors-like-google-glass-are" rel="nofollow">http://slashdot.org/poll/2577/head-mounted-displays--sensors...</a><p>The 40% positive outlook is still not bad though.