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The Google Glass Backlash Has Officially Begun

Tim Twelves — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:17:17 +0000

If you were paying any attention last week, you may have heard the tale of one Sarah Slocum. It’s a story that has landed on Gawker, the UK’s Daily Mail, Mashable, SF Chronicle, The Examiner, LA Times, CBS, CNBC, and SFist. The story of how a young woman was attacked and robbed for wearing Google Glass, and […]

From Techfiction To Techfact With Iron Man

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:40:17 +0000

Techcitement touched upon some of Tony Stark’s wardrobe the other day, but we didn’t deal with one of the coolest aspects of the armor — the predictive nature. A lot of what was far-out science fiction in 1962 is science fact today. The first thing you need to be aware of is that in the […]

Smart Money On Smart Watches For Next Tech Boom

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:01:48 +0000

It seems like every other day brings a new story about upcoming smartwatches. The big one, of course, is that Apple is allegedly planning an iWatch. This has been a fairly persistent rumor for roughly three years, ever since the square iPod Nano came on the scene and became a favorite to mod into a watch. […]

Will You Be A Glasshole?

Tim Twelves — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:30:21 +0000

Some point in the late 1990s during one late Sunday night in Brixton, South London, I was waiting on a bus to go home. A guy came up to me, mumbling. I became nervous. Was he a nutter about to stab me? He had a hood on and it was drizzling lightly, if I recall […]

Are You Afraid Of The Man In Shades?

Tom Wyrick — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:00:20 +0000

Google Glass, the not-yet-released product promising to integrate a computer into a pair of glasses, appears to be one of the more controversial tech product announcements in recent history. First, there’s the most obvious challenge for Google of figuring out to market the device as something normal. According to a recent Forbes article, even Facebook’s […]

Google Soon To Expand Google Now To More Platforms

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:00:56 +0000

There are a depressing number of non-Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) handsets in the wild, so it could be that many are unfamiliar with Google’s impressive virtual assistant, Google Now. While other virtual assistants require that you talk to them, Google Now passively collects data on you and learns a surprising amount. For example, opening Google Now on my recently […]