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it was pretty neat to be able to take a picture just using your voice okay glass take a picture Lisa Oshima is one of the lucky few the mobile tech consultant was selected in a lottery to road-test Google's biggest wearable tech investment Google glass it took you know a little bit of getting used to in the sense that I wasn't used to having something on my face but it was very much like wearing sunglasses the $1500 Google glass mimics smartphone functions you can see texts and emails make calls take pictures and videos get directions and search ok glass Google pictures of Barack Obama and now you'll see the pictures of Barack Obama and when you see a little notification come up you just look up and it's there it's not in your line of sight directly a swipe of the finger takes you through different slides a tilt of the head push of the button or voice commands also controls the functions I don't need to keep going in and out of my handbag for my phone I think that's the big thing but it may take a while before this technology goes mainstream it needs to be frankly a little bit more useful right now it doesn't even report for instance stock quotes unless you're searching google for that there's no app for that once there are a lot more apps it will be a lot more useful and then there are questions of etiquette safety and privacy there's no sort of social pact about when you can record things and when you can't and how clear you have to be about when you're taking pictures and when you're recording and I know that a lot of sea nuts audience has real questions about that and real concerns about what a world full of very subtle cameras means a blogger snapped a picture of himself in the shower some West Virginia lawmakers wants a ban using glass while driving and a Seattle bar warned on Facebook that it won't allow anyone inside with glass and then there's this issue ok glass take a picture you can activate someone else's Google glass with your voice command mine took mine did too oh she mo wears them mainly during work hours but usually unplugs in the evenings when you're having a conversation with someone it's important to continue to have that conversation and not be distracted by either your phone or your glass about two weeks after wearing glass daily Oh Shiva has her wish list and has given her feedback to Google I want Twitter I want Facebook and I want a longer battery life if I take a lot of video or if I do a lot of navigation the battery doesn't last as long as my mobile phone battery Google glass is expected to be released to the public early next year with a significantly lower price in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News