Not only is Google developing applications to keep up with competition, they are also designing and developing augmented-reality glasses. What are those, you ask? Well they look pretty much what they sound like; they are futuristic and sit lightly around your head with a small lens just above one eye, but low enough they you can look into it. Yea, but what do they do? Everything, it seems. They are designed to be your smart phone and camera in one, among other things. You walk around the city with these on, receive a phone call, and click a small button or give a voice command and you are on the phone. You want some information or a map of your location? Just give it the command and it pops right in front of your eye. This is all part of Google's Project Glass (quite fitting) and Google has recently allowed people to wear the glasses around in public to test them out.
Oh, you still aren't impressed. Well listen to this. Babak Parviz, an Associate Professor at the University of Washington and specializes in Bionanotechnology, has recently built a contact lens with pixels in it that can display images and information to the wearer. So if this futuristic, Star Trek-esque pair of glasses is maybe too bulky for you, or not quite fashionable enough, maybe you should just wait until these contacts come out. Granted, the glasses are still being tested and have a while before they will be sold, but think about how fast this technology is moving. These glasses haven't yet been released and already are similar contact lenses being invented. I can't imagine the contact lenses will have all the same capabilities as the glasses, but I know I would prefer not wear glasses all the time. I've never had to wear contact lenses but I am pretty sure I would break my streak if it meant I could basically wear information inside my eyelid.
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