GOOGLE Reveals Computerized Eyewear for Voice Commands

“OK Glass.”

Those are the two words that Google showed today will initiate a variety of commands for its Glass computerized eyewear.

In the Google Glass “How it Feels” video, people speak the words “OK Glass” and then pick from a list of featured voice commands to send a message, record a video, take a photo, launch a video-chat hangout, conduct a search, check the weather, or get driving directions.

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Geek-chic ‘Ray Bans’ outclass Google Goggles – and record EVERYTHING they see – and The glasses will also have a ‘magic’ button that will turn them into sunglasses

Prototype glasses created on 3D printer
Glasses record video to share via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
Also has ‘magic’ button which turns them into sunglasses

Recording video is about to get worryingly easy – with a new pair of techno-glasses that record video and stills, but look like ordinary specs.

Google’s much-hyped Project Glass goggles – modelled by CEO Larry Page yesterday – are bulky and distinctly dorky.

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Company Names Sunglasses Line for Helen Keller

A Chinese company is creating some buzz online for naming its sunglasses line for Helen Keller, the deaf and blind American woman who became an advocate for people with disabilities.

In a commercial for the eyewear, a stylish woman steps off a plane and walks past a long line of waiting photographers. They initially do nothing, but when she puts on the Helen Keller glasses they feverishly begin to take [...]

‘I’m on a “see food” diet’: Japanese develop ‘slimming specs’ which make foods look 50% bigger to help you eat less

People eat 10% less if they think cookies are larger
Colour blue ‘calms’ the brain persuading dieters to eat less
‘Metacookie’ techno-glasses use built-in TV screen to show dieters other foods as they eat

A new set of Japanese inventions could revolutionise dieting – but Western dieters may find the drawbacks a little difficult to ‘swallow’.

Dieters have to wear a pair of goggles which ‘trick’ eaters into thinking food is 50% bigger – [...]