Google Glass

Google Glass has lots of potential applications beyond just making it easier for people to check out their Twitter feed without taking their phones out of their pockets. Mutualink is…

Google Glass Gets An App To Power The Cyber Cops And Futuristic Firefighters Of Tomorrow

The GlassUp, an ambitious Indiegogo project that wanted to take the concept of Glass and make it more about passive consumption of content than about privacy-treading recording, video and photography,…

After Initially Locking Down Funds, PayPal Relents And Gives GlassUp Access To Indiegogo Cash

Google has added some new features to Glass in the latest software update for its experimental face-based computing device. There’s a new video player with simple tap to start/pause, swipe…

Google Glass Update Adds Video Player, Voice Actions For Path And Evernote, And New Cards

More and more, wearable computing seems like a very bad idea that will only serve to make it impossible for any of us to disconnect for any amount of time…

In The Future, Google Glass Makes Your Face A Trading Floor So You Can Never Escape Your Portfolio

The real potential of Google Glass involves making it possible to receive contextually relevant information on the go, without having to pull a phone out of a pocket or do…

New Kickstarter Projects Aims To Make Google Glass The Ultimate Tour Guide

It’s with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you – our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest…

TC Alum Drew Olanoff Talks To The Conan O’Brien Show About Google Glass

Google is bringing more Glass Explorers into the program, and it’s doing that the best way it knows how: by letting current users invite a friend. Those among you old…

Google Offers Glass Explorers An Invite To Make A Friend A Glasshole, Too

A new game for Google Glass claiming to be “the first Google Glass game” (it’s not, Battleship clone got demoed earlier this month) offers a look at what kind of…

Escape Game Shown Off For Google Glass, But Games On Your Face Seem To Have Limited Appeal

Right now Google Glass sits at the apogee of geeky, wearable technology.  Last month, interviewing a Glass-wearing Robert Scoble, Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman memorably debunked it in his opening question as “that thing…

Move Over Google Glass — GlassUp Is A Less Creepy And Much Cheaper Pair Of AR Specs

It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services…

Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch

Shares of semiconductor maker Himax Technologies are jumping in pre-market trading with the news that Google has taken a 6.3% stake in Himax Display (HDI). HDI is a subsidiary of…

Google Takes 6.3% Stake In Google Glass Tech Supplier Himax Display As It Preps To Ramp Up Production

Hippflow, which pitches itself as a ‘Twitter for startups’ with a service that makes it easy to update investors, mentors, team members and other stakeholders on a startup’s progress and…

Hippflow Brings Its ‘Twitter For Startups’ To Google Glass

Google Glass is still a pre-release product that’s fairly rough around the edges, compared to a lot of shipping consumer hardware, but new clues (via Slashgear) from the latest firmware…

Google Glass Could Soon Get Device Locking, Music Player And ‘Boutique’ App Store, Firmware Reveals

Do you have Google Glass? Do you also have a Tesla? Yes? Seriously? Who the hell are you, Batman? Anyway — there’s now an application that lets you bring these…

New App Lets Google Glass Owners Control Their Teslas Like Rich-Ass Robo-Wizards

And Google Glass’ slow march toward market readiness continues. The development team shared a few details about an upcoming update on the official Glass Google+ page, and it finally unlocks…

New Update Lets Google Glass View Websites And Listen To More Voice Commands

In what looks to be a first for the technology, designer and engineer Todd Blatt took 30 pictures of a bust of Marcus Aurelius with Google Glass and created a…

Maker Nabs A 3D Model Of Marcus Aurelius With Google Glass

Gillmor Gang: Mo’ Beta Blues

10:00 am PDT • June 22, 2013

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the summer solstice with a dip in the gene pool. With Google Glass two months…

Gillmor Gang: Mo’ Beta Blues

It looks like Google is shipping something to its Glass Explorer community this week. Sadly, it’s not clear what exactly it is the roughly 2,000 first Glass users are getting.…

Google’s Glass Explorers Are Getting A Mystery Package From Google X This Week

Google took swift action to ban Google Glass applications with facial recognition capabilities recently, following the launch of an API which would have allowed developers to build apps that could identify the…

Orbeus Launches Visual Recognition (But Not Creepy Facial Recognition) APIs For Google Glass

Google Glass isn’t in the hands of consumers yet, but a pair of intrepid Glass explorers didn’t let that stop them from taking the thing apart to see what makes…

Google Glass Gets A Teardown, Revealing It Can Be Hacked To Prescription Glasses

Google Glass isn’t even a product released for public consumption yet and already people are up in arms about its effect on personal privacy. A new survey of around 4,000…

Google Glass Should Be Banned For Privacy Reasons Say One In Five UK Residents, Per New Survey

Are you part of the lucky bunch that got offered a pair of Google Glass and had $1,500 bucks to kick down? Good news! The camera on your set just…

Google Glass Updated With HDR Photography And Voice-Powered Photo Captions

Gillmor Gang: Wake Up Call

10:00 am PDT • June 1, 2013

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — recorded early on a Thursday morning, flush with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s read-between-the-lines performance…

Gillmor Gang: Wake Up Call

Google Glass isn’t even on sale yet and there is already a noticeable backlash against Google’s first experiment in wearable computing. It’s odd to see a product that was greeted…

Google Glass: What’s With All The Hate?

Lambda Labs, an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps. The API will be available to interested…

Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass

It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with the…

Google Glass Year In Review

Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year’s…

Google Says All 2,000 Glass Explorers Have Been Invited To Pick Up Their Device

There has been a lot of talk about rooting your Glass device, or if it’s even possible. Well, it is. During a Hacking Google Glass session today, the team shared…

Here Are The Commands You Need To Gain Root Access To Your Google Glass

Google and Facebook working together? They’re actually friends, in no small part thanks to Erick Tseng. The former Android leader, now Facebook’s head of mobile, today launched the official Facebook…

How An Ex-Googler Built Facebook For Glass

Google announced a number of new partner apps today on stage at Google I/O during the “Developing for Glass” session. Facebook and Twitter were the highlights of the list, which…

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today