[michaelwww]

"You know who wears sunglasses indoors? Blind people and assholes." -- Larry David

It's curious that people don't mind hearing aids or wouldn't mind "Google Ear" if there were such a thing. They don't mind recording devices on cell phones in pockets. There's something about the modifying the eyes that upsets people. I hate it when people wear weird contact lenses, such as the all black lenses. I want to see your eyes unimpeded if I'm going to talk comfortably to you. I want to see who you are and how you are reacting to me. Take you Google Glass off, set it on the table and point it at me. I don't care. Just don't wear it when you're talking to me.

[pseut]

Um… bluetooth earpieces? See them left in lately?

[michaelwww]

I think that's more of an ego thing that people don't like, such as, "I get a lot of important phone calls, so I might have to stop talking to you and start talking to the person in my ear at any moment." Maybe it's the same with Glass. I don't know.

[ghaff]

I was thinking about that point as I was reading through this discussion. The whole "Borg" Bluetooth earpiece thing does seem to be passe. (Personally, my problem with them was always that they ended up being out of juice when I needed them so I just use a corded headset when I use one.) I'm not sure what this observation says for wearable computing, if anything.