Toshiba’s smart eyewear

So we’ve all had all the hype about the Google glass, now looks like Toshiba is coming out with its own version, Toshiba Glass. #wearable

“TOKYO — Google Glass has a lot of things going for it, but then it has a lot of things going against it, too. Among those is a design that, while not exactly bulky, is quite obtrusive. It’s difficult to have a conversation with someone wearing Glass because there’s this big thing hanging in front of their eye. You just can’t ignore it, even if you’re not wearing it.

The design of Glass necessitates this, as the projector reflects through a cube of plastic positioned external to the glasses. Toshiba has come up with a more subtle solution (though a similar name) for its Toshiba Glass, on display here in Tokyo at Ceatec 2014.” cnet review

Toshiba glass concept for enterprise.

Toshiba glass has to be tethered to smart phone to operate.

Welcome to Endgame: Google’s AR Game

“Endgame will eventually combine three novels with a host of other material, including shorter novellas, movies, and alternate-reality games (some of which lead to massive cash prizes of real gold) put together by Google’s Niantic Labs. It’s an ambitious, sprawling, potentially messy, potentially engrossing project that could only take place now, in a world where billions of the Earth’s inhabitants carry extremely powerful computers in their pockets everywhere they go.” The Verge

” Endgame might have the most involved and deeply layered supplementary content of any piece of media in recent memory, but at its core it’s still just that: supplemental.”

Endgame: ar game

This is cool, plus real cash prizes. Plus I heard if you solve a puzzle in the book you get $500,000 I am going to start  reading the book.

Glass Revolution

“You hold a smartphone in your hand. And we do—at restaurants, at the movies, walking across the street, and even in bed. We use smartphones to check our mail, update Facebook, get driving directions, search the Internet to settle bets, and, sometimes, even to make calls. But Glass you wear on your face, and that fundamentally transforms all these human-computer interactions, making them more intimate. Because you don’t use your hands, and because it projects an image onto a transparent screen suspended in front of your eye and uses a vibration to stimulate your inner ear, using Glass is like being naked with the machine: synapses and wires united.” – Google Glass Technology Review