Project Glasses by Google

Wow, how cool is this!

Google wants to 'enhance' our life by developing some form of real life HUD?? Sign me up. Of course there are implications to this.

As far as life enhancement goes, the features the videos tout seem convenient, but I don't think they are necessary. Human beings haven't reached the point where we need to rely only on speech to do everything, we still have hands and thumbs after all.

The privacy issues with a product like like should immediately come to mind. Will Google be able to trace every step/sound/sight of a person wearing this? Of course they will. Will they do it? Of course they will. Google's real products aren't its free services, its you, the consumer. Google makes a living with data extracted from the users. I wouldn't be surprised if they made this gadget free as well (on the condition that they are allowed to literally track you).

Having said that, this is very interesting  concept technology that I would love to see realized. Partly because I want to live long enough for something 'futuristic' to exist.