By Ellie Hawkins
After further researching Google Glass and getting a better understanding of what it is about I am hooked. I can see this becoming the next thing that will lead us into the future. If one goes to the Google Glass website, one can see videos of “glass explorers” that show different situations for using the glasses.
Google Glass gives the option for the user to send emails, research, take videos and photos, text and make phone calls. All the user has to do is ask Google Glass to perform the task that one wants. For example, ‘Ok, Glass make phone call to Britney’ and Google Glass will make the phone call. It gives its user to be able to do things hands free.
What Google Glass has shown is it gives people the option to have the Internet available in a way that has never been thought of before. In one of the videos Google has available to watch a fire fighter, named Patrick Jackson, does daily activities in his line of work. It gave him the option to ask Google Glass to pull up a diagram of a car so he knew what areas were the best to cut to save the man inside with the jaws of life. The fireman was also able to use them to look up floor plans of a building that was on fire so he knew how to safely enter the building and how to navigate. It gave him the opportunity to react faster to situations that needed immediate attention.
Google also had another explorer video about how a famous tennis player, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, used Google Glass. During her busy days, it helped her stay organized with different appointments and by being able to keep her updated about flight information during her travels to Wimbledon. During her practices it showed, through the videos she took, how she hit from her point of view. It gave her the opportunity to improve the way she played before her big tournament.
As of right now, to be able to get Google Glass, one has to sign up on its website and see if they are a possible candidate for one. I believe once they become more popular within our culture the price will be lowered and more people can afford them. I think Google Glass gives people the opportunity to enjoy life without having to always look at a screen or having a phone in one’s hands. Google Glass comes in five colors and has the option to turn into sunglasses when one goes outside.
The one thing that could be an issue about Google Glass is one always having the availability to have technology literally in front of a person, but I believe if someone really wants to take the time and enjoy being technology-free they can do it. All one would need to do is take the glasses off or, as of right now, put one’s phone in their purse or jacket pocket. The countries that have technology so available to them have to realize that sometimes we are too synced with technology and I think that is what Google Glass is giving us the opportunity to do is to see what is all around us instead of always looking down at our phones.
