Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and I am wearing Google glass do I look like a cyborg you probably seen a lot of these things around and this is Google's attempt at bringing maybe a little bit of a sci-fi head-mounted future to you there's a lot of intimidation going on here you may think I'm scanning you or have descended from some Star Trek movie in reality Google glass is a very specific set of things that may not be exactly what you think it does yet for instance it does not scan everything around you in reality it actually just hangs an image up here on the screen and it does interact with Wi-Fi and bluetooth to your phone or to your home Wi-Fi network or laptop to do a variety of things you could place texts you can make a phone call you can engage in a google hangout video chat where they see what you're seeing or you could search google get turn-by-turn directions but it's a pretty limited set of uses right now and none of them involve Google Goggles style analysis of the environment popping up information or any sort of weird world where things you see start interacting with things virtual again not yet because Google glass is an explorer's program looking to develop apps and while Google has expressly discussed the ideas of privacy and the concerns regarding that certainly seems like it could open up to gaming or other interesting applications as the next year goes on is a $1,500 device right now this is only meant and can only be gotten by people who have signed up for the explorers program or through Google's hashtag campaign trying to win a pair for themselves when the right to purchase one and at that price it's really not designed for consumer use in the next year will these be something different than what we see now or an evolution who knows but what you're doing now is you are getting that projected screen interacting with a in almost a video game-like way with a combination of voice and touch there's a touch pad over here a four-way touch pad that you can use to scroll through menus and talk to it and between that and a bone conducting speaker in the back and microphone you get an audio visual depiction of what you want to see and can browse to some extent through content so it's a bit like a bluetooth headset it's a bit like a SmartWatch and it's a bit like something else entirely different who knows what we'll see stay tuned for a lot more coverage on cnet as we look at this over the next week or so I'm Scott Stein with the first look at Google glass