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7 New Pictures Showing Off the Cool Features of Google’s Glasses — Plus How You Can Get a Pair

Feb. 20, 2013 12:32pm Liz Klimas

In the past year, Google has been slowly disseminating information and peaking curiosity about its futuristic, smart spectacles project dubbed Glass. It has gone skydiving, appeared on a fashion runway and was spotted riding the subway.

But the functionality of Glass has been largely unknown, mostly because so few people (outside of Google) have had the opportunity to try it out. Now, Google Glass is beginning to strut its stuff, making itself more available (sort of).

Here are a few pictorial examples of what Glass can do, but check out more of its functionality on the website here.

Here’s a video that can give you more of an idea about “how it feels”:

On its Google+ page, Glass announced that it was expanding its Glass Explorer Program:

We’re looking for bold, creative individuals who want to join us and be a part of shaping the future of Glass. Glass is still in the early stages, so we expect there will be some twists and turns along the way. While we can’t promise everything will be perfect, we can promise it will be exciting.

Google acknowledges that it would like to keep the piloting of Glass among this group small, so it is hosting an application process to pick its new Explorers.

To apply to receive a Google Glass, you need to on Twitter or Google+ complete the following:

Your application must be 50 words or less
You must include #ifihadglass in your application
You can include up to 5 photos with your application
You can include a short video (15 secs max)
Be sure to follow us on Google+ (+ProjectGlass) or Twitter (@projectglass) so that we can contact you directly
You must be at least 18 years old and live in the U.S. to apply

It should be noted that Explorers would need to pre-order the Glass Explorer Edition for $1,500 (plus tax) and plan on an in person trip to New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles for a pick-up session.

Deadline for the Glass Explorer Program is February 27, and Google states that it will contact the people it chooses directly.

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(H/T: Business Insider)

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Comments (45)

NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:54am
The next evolution in transhumanism

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googlesee
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:02pm
This will be great to record the police when you encounter them! : )

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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:33pm
  You will have hours and hours of video of cops laughing at you with these glasses, your Bluetooth ear piece, and your fanny pack. Maybe they come with good editing software so you can delete all those parts where you are instigating all of the trouble.
  
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- googlesee
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:27am
  @RabidPatriot
  
  I never said I was going to instigate anything. I said what I said. Don’t read into it.
  
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EdtheK
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:29pm
And you know what? The first thing it will be used for is porn.
Then the fools will invite their friends too, just to watch.
I see great problems with this regarding privacy concerns.
Google already datamines everything already.

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lylejk
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:21pm
I’ll pass. :)

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HI_Don
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:46pm
Hey, could someone send a couple of cases of these to the GOP, I’ve heard they need a pair.

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LevAronson
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:40pm
Give us something useful, not just something that connects people through pictures an video.

1. If I look at a restaurant, I want to know how long the wait is going to be to get a table. That information could be projected onto the screen.

2. I want driving times to my location, or my routes chosen for me in real time according to traffic patterns. Updates on accidents and lane closures.

3. Real time blood glucose levels shown to me without having to ***** my finger.

etc…There’s a social media bubble that is going to burst if something useful doesn’t come out from it.

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- uncle_blazer
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:17pm
  1. You can’t predict accurately how long it will take for you to get a table, because different people take longer to eat food.
  
  2. You can if you get a good enough GPS.
  
  3. How do you expect to get results about your blood without it testing blood?
  
  Think before you say things.
  
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PenPatriot
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:33pm
It’s PIQUING curiosity: NOT peaking. P-I-Q-U-I-N-G. Sheesh. I don’t normally correct typos and spelling errors, but mistakes like this are egregious in the media.

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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:04pm
  I hate being a grammar nazi too….however, if they’re “journalists” or get paid to write, then they shouldn’t be making these kinds of stupid mistakes!
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:23am
  As a freelance writer, I have to agree. A site like The Blaze should have a good editor that can go through these posts before they are released.
  
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CapnCrumbles32
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:31pm
This was the next logical step. Ive been predicting smartphone tech on low profile glasses for years. Next, they will have contacts. Are implants and nanobots far off after that no. They already force citizens by law to recieve vaccinations for various diseases many of which haven’t posed a serious threat for generations.

Its actually quite disturbing when you consider how far removed we are becoming from our natural environment and normal social interaction, yet we find methods of excusing it. Im a 26 year old male. I have a background in DigitalMedia and this scares the heck out of me.

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- Nuclear Bumpkin
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:34pm
  I for one am looking forward to widespread Augmented Reality devices. I’ll probably eat my words when button-sized digital billboards start spamming my Personal Area Network with promises of fast-acting penile enhancement, though.
  
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- JediKnight
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:28pm
  This excites the hell out of me. I too am looking forward to augmented reality. I won’t have to load an app on my smartphone and look at a traffic map in order to find out that there’s congestion up ahead. These will do it for me.
  
  This is a step better than a Looxcie and I cannot wait for these to become more affordable.
  
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- dflocks80
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:33pm
  Did you ever think that the reason these diseases haven’t posed a threat in generations is due to the fact that they are pressured against by continuous vaccination? Measles, polio, and everything else is still floating around out there. However, most of us cannot contract it since we’ve been vaccinated. This in turn confers a “herd immunity” to those of us in the population who cannot be vaccinated (the immune compromised and newborns, for instance) since there are a relative few suitable host for these diseases to manifest in. Quit being conspiratorial.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:31am
  I might go for these if they come out with a version in contact lenses. I wear contacts just so I don’t have to wear glasses… and eye surgery is one of the first “luxury” purchases that I’ll be making after dh finishes his degree and gets a good-paying job.
  
  As far as vaccines and nanoparticles go, I’ll pass. I learned the hard way that substances deemed as safe by the FDA aren’t always so. In my case, I thought that I was going to end up in a nursing home after years of poisoning myself with Aspartame. I didn’t realize that anything was wrong until I had been ingesting the stuff for years. I take a religious exemption for most vaccines, and I’ll deal with whatever “punishment” that I need to for refusing nano-injections when it comes.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:28pm
Hahahahaha.

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sensible99
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:27pm
Isn’t it bad enough that half of us are walking into things and running fellow drivers off the road texting? Do we really need to record every second of our pathetic lives and then send it out to other humans with whom we have lost the ability to converse with?

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turokhan
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:05pm
I think it’s funny that this site has a Technology section. Aren’t all you people afraid of science?

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:44pm
  Don’t just sign up today, then pretend to know anything about us, jacka$$.
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:04pm
And the Government expands it’s tracking of the general public from not just where you are, but what you are doing – and who’s with you. The first run will be seen as obvious “Google Glasses” in order for world wide popularity to kick in. Then by the second or third run no one will know who is wearing “glasses” and who is wearing “Glasses”. What a perfect way to be right in every citizens home.

The Gov. doesn’t WANT to see what I’m doing in the bathroom about 9:15 every morning…..
Maybe I’ll pi$$ off the Prez. and put a centerfold of Michell in front of me. Of course Oby would think two can play that game, and on YouTube we’ll see a video showing the back of Pelosi’s head (Ohhhh Gaggggg!).

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John.Galt
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 3:04pm
LOL. Great business model. Google is going to get people to PAY THEM for the privledge of helping to develop a product that will earn Google millions!! I wish I could get people to pay me to do work which I will profit from!! I bet google gets at least 10k people willing to do it.

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spirited
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:14pm
Might this be part of Obama’s brain mapping project?

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48Straights
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:23pm
More pathetic liberal advertising by TheHuffPoBlaze.

With all the news and bad things going Google glasses is whats important to the typical Glenn Beck fans? Its embarrassing how low information this site really is, no wonder why we lost the election and are getting our arses kicked today in Washington.

Meanwhile the news blackout here continues.

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- mewnani
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:59pm
  Well…. this kinda is news, as this is a preview of the future. One way or another this will be implemented, and that’s a scary thought, cause it removes us of privacy and can be used against us in a nearly infinite amount of ways.
  
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midnightvelvet
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:21pm
I don’t know what to think about this one; it could go so many good or bad ways….

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:20pm
Its going to be exciting when you are driving in your car, you get in a fender bender, and the insurance company rules that you were negligent, that having that device in your car is a distraction, equivalent to intentionally driving your car into a ditch, and the insurance company will not cover your losses?

Isn’t that exciting?

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PK_SEA
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:59pm
I think these are really cool. Not the most pretty, but very impressive with the amount of technology these little glasses have in them. There are some very smart people working at google.

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CatB
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:46pm
” plan on an in person trip to New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles for a pick-up session.”

No desire to go to any of those cities. Besides while you are using have those glasses .. .what are they collecting on YOU .. .remember it is GOOGLE.

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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:43pm
Yeah sounds great.

Just what I always wanted, a socialist organization enabled to watch everything I do in live action on he internet.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:48pm
  If they want me to perform R&D for THEM, they will pay ME $1500, plus fly me out to pick up the glasses. Let’s see how many Kool-aid drinkers sign up and pay out the nose to work for free for Gurgle.
  
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- DefyTYRANNY
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:26pm
  Sadly, people will line up for this. They won’t work very well (Beta Product), and then if you wanted the real thing, you pay again later.
  
  And….well, refer to my first post, hehe…
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:42pm
Building a spy network and giving it to a search engine, who could eventually be bought out by a the government as too big to fail is exciting? Getting sued by private citizens wearing those things in public and violating their civil rights will be exciting?

Getting slapped in the head for wearing those things, or getting them stolen will be exciting? But of course no one will protest, because you all want to make money on the internet, and saying anything negative about Google is taboo?

No way could foreign governments adapt this technology and make their combat forces more effective, that are enemies of the United States?

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- Max jones
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:09pm
  MEDIA SILENCE ENDANGERS OUR LIVES……Actually, I am very surprised that the powers that be are not hiding this from “we the people”, and keeping it for their own nefarious, and secret objectives. As usual, my scripture fueled, conspiracy theory aberration kicked in……, There is certainly more to this than we know right now……Though this is cool…..I could take real time vids of my R/C aircraft like never before. I just can’t believe there is not a dark side, to this. You see, I have real ‘trust’ issues.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:53pm
  I wonder if the police will rip these from your head, in some places, like they took phones and cameras from people?
  
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:40pm
Google and Facebook are both ultra liberal. I would not trust Google to have a “clean” device, void of gps, chips, etc.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:48pm
  That would take an engineer on our side exactly 1 hour to determine on all fronts. If it’s simply a camera with an interface to offload the photos, I see these as a fantastic tool to catch cops and federal alphabet agencies doing even more wrong things without them knowing it.
  
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- PK_SEA
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:57pm
  If you make it a “clean” device and take out the gps, chips, etc. you will be left with regular glasses. What’s the point in that? The whole point is to use tech to show maps, translate languages, and take pics and video.
  
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T-2
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:37pm
that’s awesome. can it replace BO’s face with a donkey?

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- CatB
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:48pm
  Donkey .. jackass … that is what I already see .. the “behind” of.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:36pm
Unless I can call in air strikes with them, I’ll pass.

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- Max jones
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:17pm
  GONZO……You have a very interesting and entertaining take on things..An intuitive insight… and you have continued to enliven and enrich this forum, with your incisive and concise wit. Thank you.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Thanks for the kind words Max.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:11pm
  What Max said… : )
  
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