Google GLASS

Saturday 1 March 2014
Every one wants to have their hands free when it comes to having a mobile. And if u have a computer which is portable like your spectacles and does whatever you want. Life is lot easier.

 
It is first entry to wearable tech market.

Say "take a Picture" and have one.


Google glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD), displaying information in smartphone like hands free format. And you can communicate with it in your own language.

How it Works?

 For anything to be interactive, it has to communicate. How it does?
3Ways: Display, Touch pad, Camera.

Display

How can glass display like smartphone? - It uses Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS), with Polarizing Beam Splitter (PBS). 

TouchPad

A touchpad is located on the side of Google Glass, allowing users to control the device by swiping through a timeline-like interface displayed on the screen.

 Camera

Take photos at 5MP and videos at 720p.


Technology it uses!!!

For a Device like this. It needs whole lot of technlogoy!!
No its not that way, it needs few smart TECHs.
It is made of:
  1. Augmented Reality - Feel environment around you interactive.
  2. Wearable Computers - People give attractive names, its a computer which requires low power and can come in contact with body! SO THERE IS CONTINUOUS INTERACTION BETWEEN USER AND COMPUTER!!!
  3.  Optical Head Mounted Display

What are its specifications!!!


For the developer Explorer units:
  • Android
  • 640×360 Himax helloHX7309 LCoS display
  • 5-megapixel camera, capable of 720p video recording
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
  • Bluetooth
  • 16GB storage (12 GB available)
  • Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 SoC 1.2Ghz Dual(ARMv7)
  • 682MB RAM
  • 3 axis gyroscope
  • 3 axis accelerometer
  • 3 axis magnetometer (compass)
  • Ambient light sensing and proximity sensor
  • Bone conduction audio transducer
 



FINALLY HOW MUCH IT COSTS: $1,500

 











 

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