Watch TV and walk
WHILE IT IS TOO EARLY to present the daftest technology of the year award, a strong candidate must be gear from Vuzix which allows you to watch the telly while you are walking.
Glasses with "see-through" optics allow you to watch your favourite programme while on the move.
According to a press release, the Vuzix's Wrap 920AV high-tech sunglasses look like other video eyewear products. They can display video and play audio when plugged into a digital music player, portable DVD player or laptop.
However under the bonnet there is some proprietary "quantum optics technology" which means you can see what's in front of you without missing Dr Who.
You can watch content on twin high-resolution displays (640 x 480 pixels) and 3-D video. If you switch on the optional Bluetooth-based head-tracking sensor you can experience virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments.
So if you were using the glasses you could see a re-enactment placed over a real battle field with an animated virtual tour guide.
The glasses will hit the shops in Spring after which users will start hitting lamposts and other things that were virtually not there. µ
L'Inq
USA Today
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"The glasses will hit the shops in Spring after which users will start hitting lamposts and other things that were virtually not there." LMFAO, nice one nick, furkin priceless !!!!!! :O)
If the display has enough resolution then these could make for a portable poor man's heads-up display.
I don't expect to see well thought out HUDs in commercial automobiles for the near future. But something like these glasses would let me put useful information right in the middle of the windshield - speedometer, gps, even directional info from a valentine-1 radar detector. Having info immediately available can save crucial milliseconds that would otherwise be wasted looking down at a dashboard and back up to the windshield, improving safety for everyone on the road.
A truly nice use of the technology, but I suspect more than one idjut will probably eating popcorn, watching Death Race 2000, while they're driving rather than using the glasses for something useful like a HUD... Even at night
NOT Watch Dr Who, Bee Dr. Who. Licensed Millionare. People Will Freeze in Paraletic Fear of Heavy specs Coolness, Can You Do Gold? Heavy 24K Stuff. Hope so. Bling ME Drashek
These will be great when they just look like slightly chunky specs, fed over bluetooth.. Allowing you to set in boring meetings watching pr0n, or playing stupid videogames. You'll have to be careful to avoid inappropriate exclamations, mind.
When they are comfy enough that you can wear them all the time, and feature low light and zoom via embedded cameras, and you can pull all sorts of useful overlays up in realtime, spod heaven.