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The excitement for Google’s Project Glass has been lukewarm at best, but apparently there are at least a few technophiles out there excited for the technology. Like Gregory McRoberts, who apparently couldn’t wait for Google to finish its augmented reality-enhanced specs, so he designed his own that’s worn like an eyepatch instead.
It makes the wearer look like a cross between a pirate and a cyborg—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing—but Gregory actually designed his eyepatch as a sort of hearing aid for the visually impaired. Instead of using an LCD display to show information like incoming emails or directions, the patch uses a simple set of glowing LEDs to translate temperature and distance information to the wearer.
A blue LED that can shift to red indicates if an object or a room is above or below 80 degrees fahrenheit, while a flashing green LED strobes faster and slower when an object gets closer or farther away. It’s crude, at least compared to Google’s efforts, but like a hearing aid it’s only designed to enhance a diminished sense, not completely replace it. And it just could be the most technologically advanced way to walk to plank, you scurvy dog.
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arrr that be mighty fine
The Borg started out as Pirates? Makes sense.
Arrr, we be assimilating ye, resistance be futile!
Borg
One step closer to making my Solid Snake costume ^_^
“The excitement for Google’s Project Glass has been lukewarm at best” – while this is certainly true amongst Gizmodo’s writers, who have taken every opportunity to criticise a product they know little about, there are plenty of other tech blogs and members of the public who are really looking forward to seeing what it can do. Hopefully the prototypes that people signed up for at I/O will be out soon.
Man with disability builds extrasensory eyepatch to take advantage of his otherwise impaired eye, Gizmodo makes jokes about super pirates and sneaks in a sleight against Google Glass.
“Don’t call me Kickpuncher. Call me … David.”