Google this week announced Google Glass (a full four days after April Fools), a new vision of a future where Google augments our reality through a projection on to eyeglasses. Wired have an interesting report, stating that the project is real and promising but also touching on it’s implications.
Google’s concept video can be seen both as a fluffy vision of the future and as something slightly more chilling:
Tom Scott has parodied the concept excellently in a 25 second short:
Lots worth thinking about.
Update (10/04/2012) Three more parody videos have popped up:
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