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onehandle

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Sat May 18, 2013, 08:23 AM May 2013

At Google Conference, Camera Embedded Glass users ‘Blinking or Winking, as They Relieved Themselves’

Oh yes. Google Glass will be banned in so, oh so many places for oh, so many reasons.


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Then I met the man who excitedly told me about his power to snap pictures with his eyelid. (The wink, it should be noted, is not officially supported by Glass, but is essentially a hack “sideloaded” onto the device.) He explained that he uses the wink-to-take-a-picture feature so much that a few days ago he was not wearing his Google Glass and was confused when he blinked his eye and nothing happened. His mind had played a trick on him, he said.

I laughed nervously as he told me the story, his Google Glass propped atop his nose, unsure if he was winking or blinking at me, taking pictures or just clearing dirt from his eyes. I then excused myself to go to the toilet.

As I approached the line to the restroom, I took a deep sigh, thinking that I might find some respite from the hundreds of cameras strapped to people’s heads at the conference.

Yet when it was finally my turn to approach the rows of white urinals, my world came screeching to a halt. There they were, a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals, peering their head from side to side, blinking or winking, as they relieved themselves.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/at-google-conference-even-cameras-in-the-bathroom

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At Google Conference, Camera Embedded Glass users ‘Blinking or Winking, as They Relieved Themselves’ (Original Post) onehandle May 2013 OP
and "glass" wearers zerosumgame0005 May 2013 #1
... the new mace, a can of spray paint ... that'll sure stop the RKP5637 May 2013 #2
screen stuck to their face d_r May 2013 #3
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