[marknutter]

A thought occurred to me this morning about Google Glass: would a good alternative to wearing glasses that project a HUD into your eye be instead to simply wear a wrist watch that connects up to a wireless camera that you can mount to whatever you want, your head included.

The benefit would be that you could mount the camera in a less conspicuous way, perhaps as a more traditional looking bluetooth headset. Or, you could mount the camera wherever you wanted; facing behind you, on your bike handlebars, leave it at your car while you're at a restaurant, put it on your RC airplane, etc. The camera would communicate wireless with the wrist watch, which would have a microphone you could speak commands to, and perhaps additional buttons to control the camera or even a multitouch screen.

And why stop at one camera? You could pair multiple cameras to your watch and control them individually. Put one facing behind you and in front of you, or give one to your friend while you both play one-on-one basketball.

Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that much less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.

Just a thought, I don't know how viable it would be.

[randallsquared]

> Glancing down at a watch doesn't seem that less convenient than staring at a HUD projected into your eye, and there's a lot less stigma attached to wearing a watch than wearing the goofy looking Glass.

Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone, and that's already too much time and effort for lots and lots of use cases (including a lot of Google Nowish things that could be alerted to you if you were likely to look immediately, but useless in two minutes).

The stigma will go away pretty quickly, except from the people who always object to trying new things.

[marknutter]

> Glancing at a watch is essentially the same as glancing at a phone

You can't just "glance down at your phone", you have to take it out of your pocket first, and unlock it in most cases. Your watch is already in your peripheral view and very little effort is required to position it correctly and look down at it. I recently received my Pebble (http://getpebble.com) watch and you'll have to take my word for it. Being able to glance down at my watch to see text messages and caller ID's is much more natural and fluid than pulling my phone out of my pocket; especially when I'm sitting down.

[willismichael]

I have a feeling that people will soon adapt the ability to tell that a glass user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the glass, almost as easily as it is to tell now that a smartphone user isn't paying attention due to distraction from the smartphone.