{"id":3229,"date":"2012-04-04T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2012-04-04T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:16:40","slug":"the-must-have-geek-accessory-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"The Must-Have Geek Accessory Of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to pile on with all the other bloggers pointing to <em>The Times&#8217;<\/em> latest coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/04\/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses\/\">Google&#8217;s experimental augmented-reality eyeglasses<\/a>. The article includes photos of quite chic-looking people wearing chic-looking metallic headbands that look like something out a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernor_Vinge\">Vernor Vinge<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainbows_End\">novel<\/a>. I&#8217;m not so crazy about Google&#8217;s idea for a voice interface for the eyewear (Siri can&#8217;t understand me worth a damn), but I would definitely consider purchasing something like this if I could use it during my daily commute to scan e-mail and the news. Perhaps the age of tablet computing will yield to the age of wearable computing sooner than we think.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Google promotional video showing how such glasses could be used during an urban hipster&#8217;s typical day:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9c6W4CCU9M4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to pile on with all the other bloggers pointing to The Times&#8217; latest coverage of Google&#8217;s experimental augmented-reality eyeglasses. The article includes photos of quite chic-looking people wearing chic-looking metallic headbands that look like something out a Vernor Vinge novel. I&#8217;m not so crazy about Google&#8217;s idea for a voice interface for the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3229' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}