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welcome back to Android Weekly my name is Jace and this is where we cover the week's Android use and sometimes that news involves corporate bloody warfare like last week when Google dealt a blow to Apple by acquiring nest nest is the thermostat company and of course nest was led by former Apple employees who have now jumped ship to Google further dealing a blow to Apple in the home automation market but not to worry because the senior vice president global marketing at Apple Phil Schiller has now unfollowed nest on Twitter moving on to wearables and those Google glasses are so 2013 no now we're moving on to Google's smart contact lenses holy crap Google claims they're smart lenses are a painless non evasive and accurate way for people suffering from diabetes to keep their blood sugar level under control Google smart lenses work by putting a minuscule sensor a hair thick antenna and a chip the size of a piece of glitter between two contact lenses the sensor in the contact with the tears naturally found on the surface at the I can take readings of glucose levels once per second the lens can communicate with an external device and receive the power it needs wirelessly now for all you people who think this is just too sci-fi for 2014 just remember that only a few short years ago all of these 15 devices you could buy at RadioShack can now be done more effectively with this one device moving on to a new augmented reality game Google's Mantic Labs will work with HarperCollins to create an augmented reality game based on the upcoming young adult trilogy end game by controversial author James Frey do you remember who James Frey is James Frey was the author who wrote his memoir which became a massive blockbuster hit called a million little pieces but then Oprah slammed him on international television for marketing his memoir as a true story when it was in fact almost completely fiction that James fire of course this is the holy grail for media producers in the digital age they want to extend the story's capacity to money right I mean 40 years ago it was you know create a great book and then it was create a series of books and then it was create a series of books with a multi movie deal and now of course we want the augmented reality attached to it because that is a process that can be scaled you can maintain that much easier than writing a whole new book or producing a whole new movie and there are endless possibilities for it just imagine for a moment if we had an augmented reality game for Game of Thrones for example we could have a game that teaches wives how to properly treat their geek husbands pull him to you clothes look in his eyes look at his lips as you bite yours and then lean over and with fur a Lannister always pays his debts and stab him in the gut while his mother watches o geeks love that stuff but what I find really fascinating here is that although James Frey may be a liar he is a fantastic storyteller and that's what augmented reality needs not just a technology but a great compelling and grossing story and I think James Frey can deliver I'm looking forward to it what new phone has been added to the Google Play Store that's right it's the Moto G and many of you have asked me about my favorite entry-level phone under 200 bucks and the Moto G has got to be right at the top of that list and now that it's a Google Play edition you get vanilla Android enjoy thanks for watching android peeps my name is Jase I would love to connect with you here on Google+ or Twitter if you found this helpful kindly give us a like and subscribe if you haven't already you don't want to forget about my brothers in Android Jonjo and the tech ninja Kevin they're all working very hard to deliver the best content for you I shall see you next week on Android weekly