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Could these replace the dashcam in my car?

Smart glasses also raise many privacy concerns, as their cameras and microphones may be recording at any given time, which can be unnerving to people.

This reaction has always struck me as, at best ill-informed. If I search for spy camera glasses on Amazon, I can find much cheaper and less obvious options to record people without their knowledge. If glasses are getting extra scrutiny lately, maybe I'd be better off with a spy camera pen or something like this which can be disguised as part of a button-up shirt.

Of course actually using any of these to record people without their consent in most situations makes you an asshole, but that capability already existed and is continually expanding.

I love this image. I think it should be required on any smartglasses packaging like the surgeon general's warning is on a pack of cigarettes (for now).

New GL-assholes?

Maybe "smart" electronics is a bubble. Understandable that some people want their puppet controller devices in every piece of reality. What's not understandable is the motivation to buy those. Though I think Nazi courts did sometimes put the cost of investigation (and surveillance) upon the "criminal", sometimes even make them pay for the bullet to execute them.

I mean, it's not until superprofits from oligopolized companies with their hands in everything exist. Because those superprofits go to clueless VC that also wants to take part in new superprofits.

It's going to fade very slowly, if oligopoly isn't broken.

On an unrelated note, I've just yesterday read about a German company going to produce fully optical general-purpose computers. For all bad things about optical computers (not much history, less density possible) some are very good, and it's not even delays and fields and heat being not a problem - it's production of these being less demanding for enormous very precise foundries like TSMC. And the fact that it's a German company is refreshing, because, well, not USA and not China.

And among alternative bases for computers I like optics more than DNA computing, because DNA computing is good for parallel equations and bad for response, which means it benefits big companies and big data processing if it happens. While for optical computers it's the other way around, volatile memory is a bit of a problem to make cheap, but response is better than anything. So if optical computing boom happens, it might get us back to functional programming and conscious design as opposed to big data processing. I mean, well, that's about plausible general purpose optical computers, while dedicated ones are usable for this "AI" thing too unfortunately.

And I'm probably atrociously simplifying things, just - have read a couple of articles yesterday, one of them describing a general purpose optical computer design.

Both my wife and I own the gen 1 version and we love it. Listening to music and taking POV shots without taking your phone out keeps you engaged in the moment and not focusing on recording.

Ah, yet another bit of technology I've been looking forward to for years.

Let's see @technology dump all over it.