Re: [Discuss] Google Glasses

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel C.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > another company had a laser directed to your eye. http://wwwcdn.net/ev/assets/images/vectors/afbig/scary-laser-clip-art.jpg No-one will ever be able to convince me to try such a product. -Dan __

Re: [Discuss] Google Glasses

2012-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
http://goo.gl/Fd0Yk Essentially there are a number of different companies who are competing in this market. I have not looked into it lately, but MicroOptical was based on requiring eyeglasses, another company had a laser directed to your eye. On 03/13/2012 06:29 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I've had

Re: [Discuss] Google Glasses

2012-03-13 Thread John Abreau
I've had these on my wishlist since I first saw the MicroOptical display that Thad Starner demoed at one of our meetings back in 1997. $7,000 was too much to justify a purchase, and then MicroOptical went out of business. It would be great if we could have a demo of these at a BLU meeting. On T

Re: [Discuss] Google Glasses

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: > Richard Pieri wrote: >> The only thing that I can see killing the clamshell style notebook is >> the elimination of the physical screen. Someone devises a way of >> projecting the display into the air above the keyboard... > > We already have ways of projecting onto eyeglass