...Google Technologies Glass Google Glass is an electronic eye wear device that essentially is the ability to access Google and updates from your smartphone device through the computerized frames. While currently still in the stages of development and beta testing, Google Glass has already started making an impact on the development of new technologies and the way in which we are able to see things through another person’s eyes. When linked with a persons smartphone device, Glass enables one to send and receive text messages displaying the message in a small visual to the user; Glass also provides the sync ability to make calls, take photos, record videos, and provide navigation. As Glass is still within it’s beta testing and development stages the applications associated and current features are limited, but the possibilities for this device seem to be the main focus of Google and it’s developers before introducing Glass to the public consumer. Currently Glass has been making headlines, as Google reaches out to promote this new technology providing testers to Police Officers in New York, and to NBA teams, the purpose to help provide a wider means for the technology in development. (Stein, 2014) When considering Glass, and the association of the Police or Emergency response teams one can consider the positive impacts Glass can provide such as development of applications compatible with the device to pull up a persons driver’s information, vehicle reports, background information...
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...access, and quality of care; it can be argued that the use of health information devices has positive impact on the delivery of healthcare. Since “the future of healthcare technology is now” (Glandon, Smaltz, & Slovensky, 2014, p. 27), developments in the production of healthcare information devices have been on the increase, popular, and widely used by patients and providers. Some of these devices, which include smart phones, computers, smart glasses like Google glasses, activities trackers, and wearable devices, have impacted and transformed the delivery of healthcare in ways that include cost of healthcare, access to healthcare, and quality of the care delivered. Introduction It is a common knowledge that developments in technology is continually changing, is responsible for globalization, helps with effective evaluation of business and decision-making, and enables the growth of information technology. Similarly, the areas of information technology and healthcare delivery are also presently active, developing, and constantly changing. As a result, the management of health information technology is currently enabling versatility in the delivery of healthcare, helping with the process of making it precise, tailored, effective, and efficient as it goes through enormous transformations. New innovations and dynamic changes in health information technology will play important roles in the future transformation of healthcare delivery, therefore, advances...
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...Tadiwa Njagu Google Glasses Our generation has given the age of technology an adrenaline shot, everyday it seems like some better, faster version of everyday items is being created to make our lives even more convenient .Just years ago touch screen technology was released and was considered monumental now this technology is standard with most cellular phones , mp3 players, laptops and even televisions now. The biggest advances that always seem to hold the attention of people in this day and age are cell phones. These devices once used just for communicating now have the same technology as most computers and even are superior to them in many ways. The biggest feature that contributes to the cell phones popularity are little programs called applications also known as "apps". Applications are essentially pieces of software that directly benefit the user and broaden the functionality of your mobile phone, in essence they are exactly the same as the computer programs that you use on a PC. For example, if you have a PC, you probably have programs such as Microsoft Word, Paint, and Notepad; mobile phone apps work in the same way these do. Apps can help with business, your social life, travel, communication and much more. There are apps to monitor your expenses, identify flowers and give you first aid advice, as well as full documentation suites that let you view and edit spreadsheets and Word documents. As I'm sure you inferred apps in short can make completing everyday tasks...
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...Future Technology BIS/220 March 6, 2014 Posey Future Technology The purpose of this paper is to describe the effectiveness and benefits of Google Glass (Glass), and how it may impact the use and need for PC’s, tablets, and smartphones in the near future. Glass is a mini computer placed on the side of an eyeglass frame designed to be worn as glasses and fits customer's lifestyles offering different colors, frame shapes, shades, and earbuds. Glass's frames fit with or without prescription glasses. Glass can also be bought with up to 16 GBs of internal storage with the ability of Google cloud synchronizing. Glass looks like a pair of glasses, but can perform similar tasks as a smartphone, tablet, and PC, hands free and ten times faster, so using Glass increases daily production for businesses and personal use (Glass, 2014). Responding to clients, family members, or friends is easier and quicker with Glass, because its applications are in the form of “cards” and tasks are performed through voice commands. This eliminates the need to search for emails and messages like one would search for on a smartphone, tablet, or PC, and respond with one voice command while doing other activities. Glass’s ability to sync with Google calendar and Apple's iCal also make it convenient to view and schedule appointments and reminders throughout the day (Glass, 2014). Glass, 2014, in addition, through voice command, Glass provides navigation and traffic times for any destination, with street-by-street...
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...Social Impact Report Document Author: John Doe Submission Date: 9/04/2013 Executive Summary: Cyborgs, seen in the ‘sci-fi world’ as humans with robotic parts on the outside of the body, have become a topic of great interest in the real world. Short for "cybernetic organism", the actual definition of a cyborg is a being whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device, regardless of whether this device is within the body or an external component. A shorter, easier to remember definition is “a being who is made up of both biological and cybernetic parts. After a thorough analysis of Cybernetics, it was found that: * Cybernetics will continue to be used to increase human efficiency * Cyborg technology will get cheaper and more common as more technologies are discovered * Humans rely on technology to such an extent that they could not live without it * There will always be people who dispute Cyborg use, but that won’t stop them from being used Contents Executive Summary: 2 Introduction: 4 Part 1: A Critical argument of the use of Cyborgs in society 5 Part 2: An evaluation of the potential social impact of current and emerging technologies in my area 7 Part 3: A description of the role of technology from a personal perspective and a future scenario where this technology is evident 8 Conclusion: 10 Reference List: 11 Appendix: 12 Introduction: The purpose of this report is to critically...
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...research on Google Glasses. Google glass is a headset that you wear like a pair of glasses. Google has announced that it using prescription lenses into some models. The headset has a small prism screen tucked into the upper corner of the frame that keeps you constantly plugged in to your e-mail, calls and other notifications so you don't have to miss a beat. Similar to android’s smart watch have been in development for years. The design and hardware of Google glass is lightweight the titanium frame is bendable. Google glass is packed with Wi-Fi, GPS, speakers, a camera, microphone, touchpad and a gyroscope that detects head-tilts. Never get lost walking on a trail or missing a call or photo, due to its high cpu dual processor. I see that google glasses will impact the technology industry by allowing humans to use it as second nature. I believe Its to soon for public to use simply because it is in a early development state. Since smartphone watches are just becoming popular for portable accessories, google glasses will take flight some years down the line. Google has invested too much in Glass to entirely abandon the project. There’s no vision on why people would need the Glass, which is a major problem for the device. Without a vision, people will begin to make their own assumptions, and the current thought of people is that the device is used to step over privacy limits. Maybe 20 years from now Glass X will in heavy effect since technology is advancing to its next generation...
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...Ocular Technology Today we will be discussing Ocular Technology with our main focus being on the new Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is being developed as a 3-D (three dimensional) virtual reality headset for gaming. This new technology is leading edge because of its interfacing and head tracking at six degrees of freedom with ultra low latency and new field of view range at 110 degrees diagonal 90 degrees horizontal with a top resolution of 1280 by 800 including multiple device inputs, multiple operation platforms, while only weighing two tenths of a kilogram. This set of glasses definitely has the potential to revolutionize the way we see and interact within our world. While this technology is currently mimicking our eye, head, hand movements and latency between our Nero brain receptors making the possibilities endless as to what this technology can offer us. A potentially lifesaving impact could be the incorporation of this device into the military combat training. Wars happen and what if we could possibly save the lives of our men and women on the battlefield by reducing the unnecessary risks with this device. This could be achieved by giving our soldiers a human sensory system to use in a virtual experience of simulated combat missions. This could possibly be a huge thing to our government. We could lower training costs, lessen the possibility of training deaths, and allow our troops to have virtual combat experience to better prepare themselves before entering into...
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...GOOGLE GLASS- FUTURISTIC GADGET A SEMINAR REPORT ON “GOOGLE GLASS” A Seminar report submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements of IEEE format 2013. k.syndy k.kittu SUBMITTED TO: JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY QUEST2K13 DEPT. OF CSE UNDER THE ESTEEMED GUIDENCE OF: Prof. T. vykunt DEPT. OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONTENTS * INTRODUCTION * DESCRIPTION * TECHNOLOGIES USED * APPLICATIONS * BENEFITS * COST * DISADVANTAGES * OVERVIEW * FUTURE SCOPE * CONCLUSION GOOGLE GLASS ABSTRACT: A sleek technology designed for the human face, Google Glass delivers a killer augmented reality experience that will undoubtedly have profound implications on how we interact with the world around us. Google Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality Head-Mounted Display (HMD). The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands-free displaying of information. Google Glass is as futuristic a gadget we’ve seen in recent times. A useful technology for all kinds of people including handicapped/disabled. It is a project glass. INTRODUCTION: Google is currently in the phase of testing their new augmented-reality head-mounted display, known as Google Glass. Essentially, its a pair of glasses, with a camera...
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... Ocular Technology In this paper we will be discussing Ocular Technology with primary focus on the new Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is being developed as a three d virtual reality headset for gaming. This new technology is cutting edge because of its interfacing, head tracking at six degrees of freedom ultra low latency, new field of view range at one hundred ten degrees diagonal ninety degrees horizontal, a top resolution of twelve eighty by eight hundred, multiple device inputs, multiple operation platforms, and all the only weighing two tenths of a kilogram. This set of glasses could potently revolutionize the way we see and interact within our world. With this technology is currently mimicking our eye, head, hand movements and latency between our Nero brain receptors, all this means is that the possibilities are endless as to what this technology can offer us. One potentially lifesaving impact could be the incorporation of this device into the military arena. Wars happen and what if we could potentially save lives and unnecessary ricks with this device. This could be achieved by giving the solders a complete human sensory system virtual experience of simulated combat scenarios. What this could mean to our government is huge. We could lower training costs, lessen the possibility of training deaths, and allow our troops to have virtual combat experience that could save lives before entering into combat. The total benefits and impact of having this technology in our military...
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...investigations, etc. For these sciences to run smoothly and efficiently, technology must be used. The technology for forensic science has evolved and developed in a short amount of time. Forensic psychology is the interaction between psychology and the law. Psychologists who are interested in these jobs usually work with criminals in jails, rehabilitation centers, prisons, government agencies, police departments, etc. Technology can be used in this branch of forensic science like electronic stress assistants and the software “Optimism”. These...
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...Google Glass and its implications: It is slated for release in the second half of 2012, Google had created its own brand of smart style Wraparound glass. Google mirror right in front of online interactive activities the user with the Search function. Depending on the success of the product, the potential social impact can be huge. If it was successful, smart Google Goggles prices as cheap and smart technology of the future can be used to change the way society perceives. The field of smart wearing glasses vision of Google in front of mirrors made to display information in Real time. Google X, Google owns and operates a secret place in a laboratory created. Glasses are not sure of the exact details, but rumours and leaks to collect information from Google based on images captured by the camera attached to them, do not work. Information is one of objectives in a smaller screen. Smart wear glasses, even in places where people used to gather information. The Android operating system is based on a version of the glasses and the ability to provide Internet connectivity and GPS. Users of the device can be controlled by gestures and voice commands. (Gorman, 2006) Smart features for the arrival of the opportunity to have both positive and negative effects on society. On the positive side, wearing glasses and cannot use their hands, especially when the information is always there when you need it, you can win. Slightly negative impact on the effectiveness...
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...Issues KENNETH MARSH, PH.D., AND BETTY BUGUSU, PH.D. The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to update readers on food packaging and its impact on the environment. Keywords: food packaging, food processing dvances in food processing and food packaging play a primary role in keeping the U.S. food supply among the safest in the world. Simply stated, packaging maintains the benefits of food processing after the process is complete, enabling foods to travel safely for long distances from their point of origin and still be wholesome at the time of consumption. However, packaging technology must balance food protection with other issues, including energy and material costs, heightened social and environmental consciousness, and strict regulations on pollutants and disposal of municipal solid waste. Municipal solid waste (MSW) consists of items commonly thrown away, including packages, food scraps, yard trimmings, and durable items such as refrigerators and computers. Legislative and regulatory efforts to control packaging are based on the mistaken perception that packaging is the major burden of MSW. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that approximately only 31% of the MSW generated in 2005 was from packaging-related materials, including glass, metal, plastic, paper, and paperboard—a percentage that has remained relatively constant since the 1990s despite an increase in the total amount of MSW. Nonpackaging sources...
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...(Dornbusch, 2010). Studies have shown that the aluminum can beats out the glass bottle when it comes to life cycle analysis of the materials including the recycling and reuse of each material. Aluminum cans, when recycled, use 95% less energy and produce 95% less carbon emissions than the glass bottle, which uses a mere 2-3% less energy when recycled (EPA, 2012). Another important fact is that while consumers often complain about taste differences in aluminum cans versus bottles, studies show that aluminum is better at protecting beer from the elements, especially during transport when temperatures fluctuate the most (Presidio Economics, 2011) . I will further explore the “consumer taste” issue in the next recommendation. Other evidence for producing more product in aluminum cans versus glass bottles is that aluminum cools quicker in a cooling environment than glass (Shevlin & Soffen, 2009), requiring less refrigeration when shipping beer in aluminum cans rather than glass bottles. Another obvious savings in both cost and environmental impacts is that aluminum weighs significantly less, about 10 times less, than it’s glass bottle counterpart. This reduces both fuel costs and carbon emissions, a win-win for large brewers. In addition the aluminum can reduces breakage and spoilage since aluminum is a more pliable material and it blocks the UV rays that glass bottles does not (colored glass...
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...Google Glass: Possibilities and Problems Prepared for Dr. Helen Waite Director of Research Technology Advisory Group Prepared by Casey Setzer Tushar Arvind Zach Harris Hugh House Research Department Technology Advisory Group December 2014 ------------------------------------------------- MEMORANDUM To: Dr. Helen Waite, Director of Research From: Casey Setzer, Tushar Arvind, Zach Harris, and Hugh House Date: December 6. 2014 ------------------------------------------------- Subject: Google Glass: Possibilities and Problems ------------------------------------------------- Here is the report you requested August 20 on Google Glass’s status as a consumer product. Since our task was to provide advising to the average consumer on both advantages and problems concerning Google’s wearable, our goal was to exterminate all personal bias and provide a report that, while providing informed advice, leaves the consumer armed with the information he/she needs to make an informed and personal purchasing decision. Upon gathering our research, we learned a lot about how committed both Google and other entities are to pushing Project Glass into the consumer electronics arena, and came up with the general conclusion that if a consumer is interested in this bleeding-edge technology, it would probably suit him/her best to wait until the consumer version of this product is announced, with the added features and lower price tag Google has promised en towe. ...
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...Google Glass as a Cybernetic System Paola Gulian 18/06/2013 p.gulian@me.com Stavangerweg 352, Amsterdam 1013AX Telephone: +359 888 88 30 81 Student Number: 10396144 Thesis supervisor: Michael Dieter Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture Universiteit van Amsterdam 1 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction / 3 2. Chapter 1 – History of Cybernetics theory, Systems Theory, Cyborg and Posthumanism / 6 2.1. Introduction to Norbert Wiener’s theory of cybernetics / 6 2.2. Gregory Bateson on second-order cybernetics / 8 2.3. The kinship between human, animal and machine, Donna Haraway’s theory of the cyborg / 12 2.4. The disembodiment of the human being, Katherine N. Hayles’ theory of the posthuman / 14 3. Chapter 2 – Google Glass, Individuation and the Black Box / 21 3.1. Introduction to Google Glass / 21 3.2. Google Glass and Gregory Bateson’s theory of self-corrective systems / 24 3.3. Industrialization of memory through Google Glass and Bernard Stiegler’s theory of the exterior milieu / 26 3.4. Google Glass as a black box and W. Ross Ashby’s theory of the black boxing / 29 3.5. Experience Design, Olia Lialina and the disappearing user / 30 3.6. Miniaturization of technology, Google Glass as a ubiquitous computer through Mark Weiser’s theory / 32 4. Chapter 3 – Google Glass as an Extension of the Human Being: MediumSpecificity and Becoming Posthuman / 34 4.1 Media ecology through Marshall McLuhan and Google Glass as an extension of the human being / 34 4.2 Perceptual...
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