Google Glass was prototyped in one day - with chopsticks

GMail and Google Now were also prototyped in one day, as was Linux. The hard part is the years of refinement that come after that.<p>I guess the lesson to take is that <i>big working systems are built on small working systems</i>. You don't get a big system by envisioning the final result, finding someone to fund you, and getting lots of people to build it for you. You take the smallest possible first step, see if it works, and then learn from it and expand it.

&#62; ... we actually discovered something pretty fundamental that never been discovered about glasses, period<p>This is how companies get patents on obvious things. They didn't discover this.<p>I've been wearing glasses for nearly 30 years and have known for most of that that you can press down behind your ears and the weight seems to all disappear. Your ears don't notice it much, but your nose does.

Seems a bit of a bother to use chopsticks and the fishing line contraption. Since it's to test what the user experience is just get another person to watch the users gestures and click or touch the computer that's powering the display to translate those gestures in to pre defined actions. Would let you test all sorts of crazy things.

Oh, the text is a transcript. I was very confused to be looking at text saying "And here’s what it looked like." with no images in sight.

Interesting point about glasses in general. I wonder if there would be a market for small weights that attach to the arms behind the ears to make glasses feel lighter.

Interesting thing here: Google Glass could end up proving to be a really influential product, one that changes a lot of social patterns and app design.<p>This article seems to suggest that the core UX work could be replicated in a day, just by having normal engineers playing with clay and having a rough idea of what they want.<p>So, it seems to me, we must ask ourselves: how could you possibly justify patents for such a thing, given how simple it is to come up with?

Sorry to go off topic, but interesting to see "subscribe via feedly" instead of Reader and "Notify me..." via email done through MailChimp (RSS to Newsletter) instead of Feedburner. Still makes me sad but good to see alternatives starting to be put out there.

"doing is the best kind of thinking" epic quote

My last chopsticks prototype was a "ultra-lightweight" tone-arm for an old turntable back in college, haha. I think it yielded significantly less useful results than this. Good ingenuity!

If you can prototype something in one day, that version is so brain dead as to not be any benefit as far as lessons leaned. That said, the "prototype" will still have promotional value.

chopsticks??? I need to beef up my prototyping!

chopsticks??wooww!

&#62;<i>Google Glass was prototyped in one day - with chopsticks</i><p>And it shows. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI</a><p>Come to think of it, still, I'd rather put chopsticks in my eyes than Google Glass. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI</a>