I turned off my proximity sensor (that's an option in settings -- "On-Head Detection") because the false positives (like turning on or off because my finger covered the sensor briefly) were more annoying than having to turn it on and off with the power button.
So unless there's more use for the proximity sensor I'd say this is a small price to pay if you want to attach google glass to your regular glasses.
One possible use for the proximity sensor, though, is wink detection: https://github.com/kaze0/winky
On the other hand, there's a dedicated button for taking a picture so winking as an input method I think would only be useful in situations where you don't want to use either your hands or your voice. And there may well be such situations.
Everyone rather have control than implied ominous prediction.
i hate that i can't press a button on my phone and switch from landscape/portrait modes. rotation sensor is silly most of the time.
As chips get faster, wearable computing will benefit more than smartphones, because (eg) an iPhone 5 is more powerful than a smartphone can utilize (and more powerful than even a desktop needs to be, for most mainstream tasks.)
If you look into the future and imagine that every 1.5 years Google Glass will half in size instead of getting faster, it doesn't take the long before it's the size of a dime (~4.5 years).
That's why Glass matters: it's just the beginning.
Short blog on Medium about this: https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/74c201b...
The OMAP4 is really no different than the Sitara AM335 being used in stuff like Beaglebone Black, with the exception of the video DSP. And I can see why Google would want that DSP on board to do things like hardware video encoding.
You'd be much better off with something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Camera-Watch-Video-Recorder....
http://www.csr.com/products/35/sirfstariv-gsd4e
You can see more detail of that here:
http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/teardown/mainboa...
I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
When items fail test you can investigate the batch to find and eliminate problems of manufacture.
Sometimes this is good and effective and it works. You see that batch #3762387 failed, and that they all used a component from a delivery, so you look at the other batches using that component and they fail too.
Sometimes, however, it's just a paperwork exercise. It's frustrating for everyone trying to do the work, and the results are hopeless for anything because people are just faking the paperwork, or the paperwork is garbage. The company is only doing all of this to get a logo for their letterhead, and they must have that logo to do business with some other companies.
In the UK some of these systems (ISO900x; BS5750; etc) are sometimes seen as expensive makework nonsense.
Let me know if you ever need to find flaws in someone's paperwork because there are a few things where it's trivially easy to trip them up once you know what to look for.
"Let me know if you ever need to find flaws in someone's paperwork because there are a few things where it's trivially easy to trip them up once you know what to look for."
I'm interested in this, can you give some more details?
Parents already have problems taking photographs of their children at school events[1] and people are regularly harassed and arrested because they are taking photographs in public. Most people seem to think this is too extreme, but I get the impression that they wouldn't mind if it was happening to glass users.
As far as public surveillance goes there are much worse situations than actual people wearing (currently) expensive hardware wandering around. It's cheaper and better to mount CCTV everywhere; and it's good for the operators to have hidden[2] low[3] level cameras.
[1] Although I agree with Louis CK about this - don't video the kids, watch them. The resolution on the kid is much better than on that little phone screen.
[2] To avoid vandalism.
[3] Face height, not on a tall pole.
Of the three largest chips, it's the furthest to the right (in case the large Texas shape didn't tip you off ;) ).
Google services (search, maps, etc)? Good luck to the imitators.
