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by ironchief 4754 days ago
For most use cases, current hardware is sufficient. This will have a profound effect on wearable devices as we use exponential improvement to make devices smaller and more battery efficient rather than faster. This is exactly what Intel and Apple did with the new Macbook Air. They made it slightly faster, but much more power efficient.

If you look into the future and imagine that every 1.5 years Google Glass will half in size instead of getting faster, it doesn't take the long before it's the size of a dime (~4.5 years).

That's why Glass matters: it's just the beginning.

Short blog on Medium about this: https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/74c201b...