That's not a glass it's a plastic cup, and it's full...1/2 full of liquid, 1/2 full of gasses.

Google glass wearers are self centered assholes IMO. Consider how you would feel about people who constantly wear a wire and hidden camera for the cops, now realize that the cops/feds have access to anything recorded by google glasses. Now how do you feel about google glass wearers? Would you allow one in your home?
I think google glasses should have a bright red light on the outside that indicates any level of recording or picture taking. On private property, it's illegal to record people without their consent in most states. I'm 100% behind excluding these devices on any private property without written consent of the owners AND clearly posted written notice to all visitors that they are being recorded, and making it a criminal offence to record audio or video on private property without a waiver. Write your representatives and tell them so if you agree.

It seems like the bluetooth ear piece wearers have realized how stupid they look and how shallow walking around like a self important arse is. Now it's down to the 1% d-baggers that still wear them. I predict the same course for this product.

The 'every one will be wearing them in a year' comment is so smug. Really irritating.

It's pretty easy to laugh at glass users as inconsiderate dickheads with stupid looking technology. Ya know, the same way everyone did with cell phone users back in the 80s.

I don't particularly like glass or the concept of everyone recording all the time, but it is going to happen. And what's more, it's going to impossible to tell.

What happens when the camera/display aspect of glass becomes small enough that it's just a contact lens. Or projecting a bit further, when we have neural interfaces that can directly record vision? Yeah, it all sounds a bit sci-fi, but then so would a smartphone back in the 80s.

History has shown that almost every outright dismissal of new technology as a fad has been wrong.

@newtboy, by the way, I believe glass does have a visible recording indicator.

Little Brother is watching you.

Some of us STILL feel that way about cell phone users. ;-)
(I still say what my dad said in the 80's..."Cell phones are for people who are so unimportant that they can't afford to miss a phone call."...it's no longer true, but I still think it's funny.)
I think your examples are good theoretical reasons to tackle this issue now, while it's still possible to see the recording device....I keep wishing someone would actually make the facial recognition scrambler from 'A Scanner Darkly' for those of us that don't want to be tracked and recorded any time we leave our property. Of course, even if they did make it, I probably couldn't afford it.
I just HOPE these are just a fad and that they never catch on. I could really get behind them if they didn't have the camera/microphone built in, and instead relied on a good GPS to interact with the real world, but I know the answer to that wish...'good luck with that'.
At least, if you're correct, people can tell when the recorder is on, unless the indicator is broken or disabled. Remember, it's well known that it's fairly easy for hackers and the state to access your PC/laptop/cell phone camera without any indication that it's on, so the red light isn't a 'catch all' indicator, but it's way better than nothing.

Cell phones are a tool, nothing more or less. They can be useful (up to and including saving lives) or you can use them like an inconsiderate knob-end (up to and including killing someone).

I don't think glass in it's current form will catch on, it just looks too stupid. But the basic idea (i.e. a HUD with augmented reality)... IMO that's almost certain to become ubiquitous. Unintrusive access to data is just too useful not to.

As for the recording light, I place zero faith in it. Short of building it into a tamper proof case with sealed software, it's just too trivially easy to disable.

Again, I'm with you in that I find the implications troubling. But I think we might be the last generation to find it so. None of my friends kids has any concept of a division between private and public lives. They've all grown up with social media of one form or another, and it simply doesn't occur to them not to share everything online.

ok..on the record: I hate google glass, 'cuz it makes me giggle late at night, which wakes my wifey up in a pissed-off mood, and gets me into trouble, by the next day.

there, i (kinda) said it.

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As @ChaosEngine says, this sort of tech will become more ubiquitous going forward, I imagine it's going to start to be really difficult to catch cheaters who can wear some device that scans the exam page, looks up a relevant textbook on google then shows them the answers. I guess the question will become, should we still call them cheaters, or embrace the technology (if everyone can benefit from it). I don't really have an answer, although I think I would be happy to have an unintrusive device that helped me remember peoples names