Cracks in Google Glass?

The slow rollout and clever marketing of Google Glass presaged what was going to be a seminal tech product. But the cracks in the glass are getting deeper

Its release is still months away and the hype behind Google Glass continues apace, but will the public buy it?  Photo: AP

A couple of years before the Millennium I became the owner of a mobile phone, in spite of the Luddite in me who thought this was the beginning of the end of my privacy.

I was living in Brighton at the time and in those days there was a huge digital divide between that city and London. The fact that I caught the train at Victoria station told its own story. While Victoria station can feel like a trade show venue at times, it was as if it was an entry into a different world when getting off the 7.47am from the seaside.

Most of my mates in London had mobiles, those in Brighton didn’t. So while I became part of the crowd in London with my compact Nokia, people in Brighton thought I was a bit of an idiot.

Naturally, when confronted with attitudes, one strikes one, so I showed off my mobile as if I was the first one in the tribe to have made fire. To them I was Loadsamoney from The Harry Enfield Show, to me they were Boolean dinosaurs.

Anyway, one time, to much merriment from these people, I walked into a lamppost on the way back from the pub while talking on my mobile, an experience that a BBC journalist endured this week when using his wearable Google Glass. He tweeted that this had happened two minutes after a cyclist had shouted ‘it’ll never catch on’ at him.

source: www.telegraph.co.uk