Google Glass can return – but it must clear four big hurdles first

Title: Google Glass can return – but it must clear four big hurdles first

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/16/google-glass-return-four-big-hurdles

Summary:

This article is about the recent halt to the Google glass project and a question on its future, a possible return as a fully fledged product. The article then goes on to explain the 4 hurdles that are preventing the return of the product. Google didn’t see the insult “Glasshole” coming, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The word Glasshole was a surprise to me. None of us had thought about that,” a former Google X executive told the paper. The Google glasses do not look appealing at all. The number one complaint is that the glasses just don’t last long enough. The need for a slim profile means that the battery pack is necessarily tiny, and there’s no easy way to make the device last longer without making that pack bigger.

Facts/Phrases:

Ø  It all points to Google’s desire to make Glass a genuine consumer-focused gadget, rather than the niche-interest product which appealed to the “explorers” who were prepared to pay £999 to be fancy beta-testers.

Opinion:

In my opinion, the slightest inkling of returning Google glass would be a big and horrific mistake, it’s a product unwanted, and lost cause, there is no real point using a product that has no real worth or use. Being devil’s advocate the idea is simple and complex at once, and is incredible on paper, in some sense a vision of the future, BUT it isn’t worth the hassle, no one in their senses would pay a grand to wear glasses that run out of power fast. Also, i would not want to be called a bloody Glasshole.