Google Glass purposefully made it obvious what they were. The newer glasses without cameras from Meta et al basically look like regular glasses if you can't see the waveguide in the lenses.

I mean they are a bunch of things but I wouldn’t call them talentless.

FOMO. Every experience is recorded just in case you (or really the government) might ever realize it was missed. Just in case it ever becomes interesting.

I would. They're making an entirely unoriginal product with an entirely unoriginal sales pitch and, presumably, an unoriginal surveillance-based business model.

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

“If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, ‘What’s 37 to the third power?’ or something like that, then it’ll pop up on the glasses,” Ardayfio added.

The product sounds like just another shitty AI assistant but on your face. The problem might fix itself when only 5 idiots buy them.

Is it really unoriginal? If it is patentable then it is as original as one can get in an already very developed technological market. I’m not saying I want this out there, but that doesn’t mean that what they are doing is wholly unoriginal, especially if no one has done it before.

The only difference between their concept and Alexa, for example, is that you wear it on your face and tether it to a phone. Oh, I guess it also has a display you can read. Massive innovation right there.

If you know what you’re looking for, they’re not that difficult to spot. But, yeah, to most people, they would just appear to be regular sunglasses. This is a huge problem. It’s one thing when you’re being recorded by someone who is obviously holding a camera. It’s another one when, potentially, dozens of people around you could be recording everything all the time without anyone else, knowing it.

Not only is a potential for abuse incredibly high, the fact that Meta ends up owning all of the content so they can harvest it for monetary gain is even worse.

I think the facial recognition bit of it is what makes it novel.

Under your argument the smartphone was not an innovation, it’s just a computer you carry in your pocket. And actually computers are not an innovation they are just calculators that can make a lot more calculations at one time.

It’s kind of disingenuous.

Illegal in the EU btw.

Now would be the time for a scramble suit startup.

Like recording videos of fireworks

I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.

Yes, the problem I'm having is too much privacy from tech-bro douchebags, how did they know?

Wasnt there someone who hacked their google glasses and was getting everyone's home addresses around him on facial recognition? I would think the risk would be fairly high to people who work with the public from these folks

Slashdot comments hating hard on this, good!

Its absolutely fuckwittery to want this trash.

Everything has already been invented. So we get this shit to invade our lives and ruin the last little bit of anything good.

FUCK CAPITALISM.

What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?

It is unoriginal because meta already did it! They directly referenced meta in their description.

Yet another reason I should flee the US.