Google is preparing a renewal of hardware for the current version of Glass

The current version of the Google Glass known to date will be improved in the hardware specifications before arrival in the sales channels. This is confirmed by the development team through its Google+ page, as well as announcing the new version will soon be available for all participants in the Explorer program.

The restyling of the hypothetical Google Glass 2.0 will adopt lighter lines, will be included support for prescription lenses and finally mount an ear-bud with mono audio output to improve the output audio in noisy environments (one of the major flaws of the current version).

No mention unfortunately regarding the battery life but at least in the coming weeks the program Glass Explorer allow you to invite up to 3 friends thus extending the tests and user feedback in order to obtain an even better product before the official launch.

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In the future Google Glass could support the hand gestures

A to talk once again of Google Glass, wearable computing and related technologies today is a Google patent on a feature for the detection of hand gestures through camera. From here you imagine this technology as a new way to communicate with Glass is a short step, though things might be a bit 'more complicated than that.

The software to identify gestures should be based on the same principle of any recognition software, video, and therefore be able to distinguish at least the 'forms' predetermined. The example of the heart shown in the patent makes the idea and might suggest an input that refers for example to a like on a social network. That this may derive from a real recognition of gestures is a desirable development, but difficult to see that in the short term.

The patent in question was originally filed in June 2011, and considering the character assumed by the Google Glass seems unlikely now entering a new mode of input beyond voice input, swipe bar and head movements. On the other hand, assuming a redesign of the device in view of its actual commercial launch, the final version of the Glass may differ significantly from the one dedicated to the Explorers program. Unless immediate future, however, there is certainly to be expected that the wearable computing will evolve in this direction and that the hand gestures soon become part of the user interface-terminus.

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In the history of the 14 most innovative giant electronic equipment

August 11 foreign media news reported, along with every new smart phone, computer and chip launch, we are from the future life is getting closer. Ubiquitous high-speed wireless network? With LTE technology, has been far from that goal. Automatic driving a car? Google is developing. Automatically synchronize with your smartphone device? Say not that Nest?

Here are 14 models that we think will lead humanity into the future of products:

1.Kinect

Kinect for Xbox sales potential quickly became the best Xbox 360 devices. It is not without reason. Since then, people bid farewell to handle playing electronic games with the times. Like Microsoft's advertising slogan said, the world is up to you to control (you are the controller). Now not only support Kinect gesture input, also supports voice input.

Innovation: Kinect is just the beginning. Imagine your TV or game consoles are applied like the Kinect technology, home entertainment will be other immersive. Remote control device era gone. Like "Back to the Future II" a line, "You mean you have to hand? Too juvenile it."

2 Walkman

Walkman is a first mainstream electronic devices. 1979 (or 1980) after the release, people used to go, music and where, even in the movement is no exception.

Innovation: iPod 30 years before the birth, Walkman had people in the car listening to music outdoors.

3.MakerBot Replicator3D printer

In the movie "Star Trek", replicator this machine can produce subatomic particles are arranged almost everything - food, clothes, and even other machines. MakerBot Replicator will like the movie earlier version of this machine.

Innovation: although make bricks without straw, the current form of 3D printing technology, but for the future of the world presents us with an interesting scene. Since the completion of his own at home can begin an auto parts, why helplessly wait several weeks for it to do?

Over the past involving pirated music and video commercials said, "you are not going to steal a car, right?" So, you will download a car design and print out the practice of car How should a conclusion it? This can only be from the future to find the answer.

4 Google Glasses

Although the concept has been in head-mounted display science fiction fanatics and futurists rooted in the minds of several decades, Google is the first glasses to capture the public eye, affecting nerve genuine public wearable devices.

Innovations: Google glasses such as wearable computers can be changed from the myriad aspects of our lives. News is not the same, the concert is not the same, even porn will bring a different feel.

5.iPhone

IPhone first appeared, the first of its kind smartphone from opening. Since then noticed any changes occurred yet?

Innovation: iPhone equipped with very sensitive touch screen, a special media player, handheld high-speed internet (Wi-Fi, because no launch 3G) and attractive designs for today's smart phones set the standard.

6.Nest thermostat

Who knows people will as a new thermostat and crazy too? Nest thermostat came out a few years ago, people are really crazy. Nest soon be called the first "Apple Level (Apple-fied)" household equipment. This is not difficult to understand. Nest is a smart device, you can adjust the indoor temperature according to their habits. It can record when you go out, when to sleep. And design is very beautiful.

Innovation: This is to create a truly networked home has taken an important step, the device will provide you think of everything. Imagine if all of your appliances are as smart and Nest, it is not only convenient, but also saves you a lot of electricity.

7 Google automatic driving cars

In autonomous vehicles this product, Google mixed. However, Google still insist the project, Google X Labs geniuses are constantly improving driverless car products to overcome the difficulties. There are even rumors that Google plans to produce their own cars.

Innovations: Once autonomous vehicles to be perfect, the benefits are enormous. This will eliminate drunk driving, fatigue driving or driver error caused by security problems.

8.iPad

Before the advent of the iPad tablet computer already exists. But how many people will actually buy it?

Innovations: Like the iPhone, iPad terms of appearance or function, are each tablet set the standard.

9 TV box

If you want a networked TV, you have N number of options: Google's Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku there are a lot of these big names such as Samsung or Sony manufacturers of "smart TV."

Smart TV allows you to watch streaming video, such as Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon Instant and YouTube.

Innovations: With Smart TV, we are from an arbitrary demand content on the Web in the world is getting closer.

10 SSD

If you have a MacBook Air or Intel's ultra-extreme, you may have noticed that starts up faster than other notebooks. This is attributed to SSDs. SSDs are flash-based storage solutions, faster than traditional hard drives.

Drawback is that SSDs currently very expensive, the cheapest of several memory is only between 128GB to 256GB. If you want to store a lot of movies and music, the storage space is not enough.

Innovation: Once the price drops, SSDs will replace traditional hard disk drives, computer faster.

11 Cloud Computing

Over the past few years, "cloud" the word silently into our everyday technology parlance. Apple is no exception to online storage service named "iCloud". But the cloud, what is it? Simply put, it is a way to store all your files, photos and music the way through the Web on a remote server. Excellent cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive and Box.net, etc., become a virtual desktop folder, allowing you to access these files from anywhere.

Innovation: As the Internet faster, lighter and cheaper devices, cloud storage has become the best way to backup files. Cloud storage also saves a computer, tablet or smartphone valuable space.

12 Voice Control

Siri is not a true artificial intelligence technology, but it and similar services such as Google Now uses very large. It looks like we distance "Iron Man" in the JARVIS not far away.

Innovation: Siri and other similar applications are just the beginning. They have the ability to learn, you can continue to improve. The majority of people imagine that one day you will have a similar voice assistant Siri function.

13.LTE

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a wireless technology, capable of broadband speeds on mobile devices to transfer data. With the large carriers expanding LTE overlay network, most urban areas just a matter of LTE coverage.

Innovations: One day, when we recall that in order to use high-speed wireless Internet and go to rub Wi-Fi cafe the day. As mobile phones and tablet computers LTE chip, we finally can understand the feelings of the mobile network at any time up. LTE is presently not a beautiful clarification; however it's a step within the right direction.

14 collapsible display

Foldable touchscreen display may sound like science fiction things, but they do real. In fact, LG has completed a large-scale production of collapsible display the basic work.

Innovations: You may think foldable display is the gimmick will never become a reality, just as people once thought impossible to achieve the same touch screen. Imagine being able to your smart phone or tablet volume up and put it inside a pocket or bag. Also thin you think your iPhone?

PWRGlass: an inspiration to triple the battery of Google Glass

Really interesting idea developed by  www.pwrglass.com  that has created a practical and comfortable strap for glasses that can extend the battery of Google Glass 3-fold thanks to a 2000mAh battery integrated in the holder. Found a very simple and pleasing design that could be easily implemented and that is a candidate as one of the most successful concept of realistic accessory to date.

Waiting to see the Google Glass marketed in their final form, we can only hope for similar accessories becoming increasingly popular and with the ability to expand not only the battery but also maybe the memory as suggested by the same pwrglass.

Google Glass: arrival in a store dedicated, audio player and more security

We are confident that when they come on the market the Google Glass can boast a large number of applications, an optimal management of the UI and an ecosystem already started and running. The program seems to run Explorer and beyond mere advertising and marketing appearances with a little 'everywhere, developers are actually carrying out concrete platform. If applications do not yet there are thousands, Google is still planning to build a real store dedicated to Glass. In reality it is more likely to think of a section of the Play Store dedicated to this device and to a package of API dedicated and exclusive for the development of specific app.

According to the information that emerged, however, the store could be called Boutique and have its own unique identity.

Continuing in the vein of Glass, the latest update seems to hide small details that partakes in an integrated audio player that can handle music files directly from the glasses and so far away, that might come in the near future. Google also studying a system would be to increase the security of the glasses making a screen freezes or however a protection system. All this to allow you to use the Glass only real owner and not to strangers.

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New update XE7 for the Google Glass: many new features including a full web browser and integrated!

With the beginning of each month, Google has become accustomed to the release of a new firmware update for the Google Glass and promptly was released the new update XE7 that not only further improves handling and responsiveness of the interface but also introduces a real its full web browser and integrated into the system.

In this way we will have the ability to navigate and view web pages like in a real browser, whereas previously, users could only initiate a search based on the results of Google without any possibility of navigation. The operation of the browser uses a combination of gestures along with the gyroscope Glass, running his fingers from top to bottom and vice will perform one vertical page scroll with two fingers we can apply a zoom on the contents of the page and with a simple tap will perform an automatic zoom at the center of the page.

But the new firmware still hides a few surprises as Google has also further enhanced voice commands introducing new ones:

• Ok, Glass. Read aloud - Ok Glass, read aloud.
• Ok, Glass. Answer call - Ok Glass, Answer the call.
• Ok, Glass. Share with so-and-so - Ok Glass, Share with

We conclude with another important step forward for the use of Glass, Google has finally lifted the limit of 10 contacts to make calls or send SMS messages, a heavy limitation which has now been removed to allow you to import all your contacts.

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A little Google Glass for everyone here is the download APK launcher

If you can not try the Google Glass, make sure to use the software of Glass on your Android device . The concept is simple, and as always the help of developers willing makes it simple and straightforward. Will be sufficient to install three APK file to get the macro functionality of Glass on your smartphone. So you can also say " OK Glass, Take a Picture "even if it is not so easy to go unnoticed.

Download apk:

• glasscamera-modded.apk
• glasshome-modded.apk
• glassmaps-modded.apk

More information about the developer's page.

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Google has shown how to use glasses Google Glass

Google Glass Project attracts a lot of attention. And for good reason - if successful, this new device has to offer to the public a completely new way of interacting with the Internet and the people around by making computing electronics even more personal and accessible.

 

Of course, most people interested in issues of technical specifications, prices, availability of applications and possibilities of augmented reality glasses. According to the description in Google Glass has two control interface - voice and tactile. When a user is more convenient to use the second, it is enough to just touch the sensor area near the bow. She takes finger movement.

Touching the surface includes a tiny transparent display near the right eye - the virtual screen glasses. Gestures swipe left or right to switch between the main sections of the interface presented in the form of "cards" Letters Gmail, news, weather, route, and others. Go to the menu can be a single touch "touchpad".

 

Points Google will completely new level of interaction between human and electronic devices when requested by the outcome or hint will pop up almost instantly to the eyes. This is especially important given the use of the voice interface Google Glass.

Users will be able to buy Google Glass in about a year - the first test limited edition is designed primarily for developers. Field testing of the device conducted among developers, will help the company develop a set of rules with which the buyer will have to accept Google Glass.

Google Glass glasses will go on sale only a year

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Google, Eric Schmidt said that the consumer version of Google Glass glasses will not until 2014. First it was thought that the device will go on sale in autumn 2013. However, according to a top-manager of Google, in the next few months, the company will only collect information from the developers with access to the product.

Schmidt said in an interview that has yet to take a year before augmented reality glasses will be able to appear before the general public is fully prepared. He said that on the basis of information received from the developers of Google will make the necessary adjustments to the project. In addition, Schmidt raised the issue of privacy in the light of the use of the device. According to him, the company has developed a new social etiquette.

"It is wrong to use glasses in situations where you can not record video - he said. - Do companies such as Google, there is a huge responsibility for the security of information, but the user should be responsible and understanding of their actions. "

Previously, Google released the official specifications of Google Glass. The device will be able to take photos with a resolution of 5 megapixels and video in 720p format and will offer flash drive capacity of 16 GB. It will be appreciated that the user of them will be available only 12 GB, although the volume expands due to synchronize with the cloud service Google.

Resolution miniature display Google Glass is 640 × 360 pixels (the image looks as if watching a 25-inch HD-monitor from a distance of 2.5 meters). Points also support the standard Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g and work-based operating system Android.

Owners of Google Glass forbidden to transfer points to other users at risk of turning them off

In the conditions of use of goggles Google Glass found a strict ban on resale, and even the transfer of the gadget at a time. In case of violation of this paragraph the contract unit cost of $ 1,500 will be turned off without any compensation.

"You can not resell, lend, transfer unit to other persons without the express permission of Google, - said in a statement. - If such a transfer will take place, Google reserves the right to disconnect the glasses and stop them serve in the future without the return of funds. "

Analysts Silicon Valley has already been called this requirement "very strange", but on the online auction site eBay has already appeared the first lot with Google Glass. The initial price was $ 5000, the day rate is more than $ 90,000, after which the item was no longer available. Apparently, Google has managed to remind the seller the right to use the gadget.

Previously, Google has also banned third-party developers to place any advertising in their applications for the Google Glass or charge for downloads by users within these applications.

According to viewers, Google should carefully finalize glasses, since the current version leaves much to be desired: the data transfer rate is extremely low, voice commands are executed poorly. However, the Internet giant has promised to release updates every month for its new product.

The first unboxing points Google Glass gadgets

Google recently launched Google Glass supplies for $ 1,500 application developers, and the winners of the contest for the best idea for the use of the accessory. Order glasses can be had in the past year.

How are Google Glass, is well known.you shown through youtube the interface points, talked a lot about them and even recently published their specifications. But recently, the first samples of points started to come the first users of the program Glass Explorer. And now we have the opportunity to see how the gadget looks in the package. You can judge the video on youtube the first video with unpacking Google Glass, the box contains cable, power adapter, do sunglasses, black glass, which can be hung on the shackle, and storage bag.

By the way, on the official Google website you can fill the form for notification of when Google Glass will be available to the masses. The company hopes that this will happen in 2014.

Google has published specifications Google Glass, Android application is available for download

Google released the official specifications of Google Glass. According to the manufacturer, the "smart" glasses will be able to take photos with a resolution of 5 megapixels and video in 720p format and offer a flash drive of 16 GB. It will be appreciated that the user of them will be available only 12 GB, although the volume expands due to synchronize with the cloud service Google. Points also provides Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is not the latest version of the 802.11 b / g.

A new application for the devices MyGlass on the operating system Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich has appeared in Google Play. The remaining specifications of the gadget are adjustable shackle points in two sizes, screen resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, described as being equivalent to a monitor with a diagonal of 25 inches when viewed at a distance of 2-2.5 meters, audio works by bone conduction: the sound can be transmitted to the middle ear through the bones of the skull by vibration. Developers will also talk about the length of battery life during the day and the charger is connected via the cable Micro-USB.

In addition, Google has published the documentation for working with API Mirror, on which to build applications and services Google Glass. It includes the study guide in Java and Python, as well as in-depth description of the management and best use of the interface options available for download from the initial projects and libraries.

Experts note that the platform Google Glass can not boast of openness, unlike Android. The agreement forbids programmers to distribute applications except in the distribution channel Google Mirror API Client. But the great news is that in applications banned advertising and micro-payments as a download and within applications.

How do the glasses Google Glass [infographics]

In mid-March, Google introduced the technology festival South by Southwest preliminary version of the first applications for augmented reality glasses Google Glass. Gadget which dominates the minds of geeks around the world, should be on sale before the end of the year, it is equipped with a transparent display and camera.

Google Glass display allows you to overlay digital information on the world of user regardless of where he looks and what he does. Thanks to the integrated software accessory holders will be able to check mail in Gmail, create notes in Evernote, upload photos to social network Path or read the latest issue of the newspaper The New York Times. And all this without the help of the hands, or rather the keyboard, and even a touch screen.

It is known that Google Glass embedded microphone, speaker, camera, light projector and sensors. German designer has created the infographic illustrating the principle of the Google Glass. According to the description of the device display electronic glasses Google does not fill the entire field of view, and is located at the edge of his right eye. The image is projected onto the retina of the eye with a mini-projector built into the right ear of points. Last transmits images to a small lens, which directs the image as a small rectangle in the eye "carrier".

How do the glasses Google Glass: