Google Glass — a futuristic visor that’s basically a smartphone mashed with hipster glasses — will be used exclusively by ballet dancers, skydivers, acrobats, equestrians, ice sculpturists, skiiers, table tennis players, and people who really really like aquariums, according to this video.
Yesterday Google announced they had mapped out parts of the Amazon that you can now navigate on Google Street View.
Google, taking the mystery out of the world since 2000.
(via theatlantic)
Google’s high-profile, $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which closed yesterday, has set the tech world abuzz with speculation on Google’s first steps as it enters the hardware business: They’re going to do a 180-revival of Motorola! No, Motorola is doomed! No, they’re going to shutter Android! Google’s second, much quieter acquisition this week, of San Francisco industrial design studio Mike & Maaike, answers most of those questions.
Meet Mike and Maaike, The Design Studio Ushering Google Into Hardware