Google has been teasing us for months with the idea of Augmented Reality glasses that feature a virtual Head-Mounted-Display (HMD) to make your shoddy life much better, and now they’ve got a name for it: Google Project Glass. NOTE: They couldn’t call them the obvious Google Goggles because they already have a product by that name.

What does it do?
Just know that it will be able to do everything your smartphone can currently do, but you wear it on your noggin, and you interact with it via different means, like for example your voice.

Walk along, see something you like and say “take a picture of that”.
Run into an old friend from High School and can’t remember if they’re married or gay, their Facebook profile could pop-up and remind you.
Get on to a plane, take you seat and get your porn on.

All this, and you just need to make your peace with walking around looking like an out-of-shape, less cool and not as handsome Robocop. Although there are plans to one day put Project Glass into your existing glasses or contact lenses.

For a full look at what Google Project Glass is, watch this wildly popular internet video. (produced, diseeminated and liked by the world’s largest corporation…hmmmm!).

And now for the bad news…

What’s the flippin’ point?
So what! You can watch porn on an aeroplane without anyone knowing. Doesn’t mean you can fiddle yourself to completion without getting banned from Kulula for life.

I know you’ve already thought of it, so I’ll say it out loud: “Now I can read and write texts and emails while I drive”. No, bad human being. Stop it!

More crit has come at the idea of these glasses saying that people feel like nobs walking around talking on their handsfree, what d’ya think they’re going to feel like walking around with just a cyborgish pair of glasses on?

I don’t agree with this actually. I have faith that people will get over this when they learn how much this sort of tech can supplement their lives. In the same way that humans adapted their behavior in a mainstream way to work on touchscreens, they’ll soon do the same to adapt their behavior to feel comfortable “talking to themselves” in public.

More than that, one popular viral video doesn’t mean that the gadget works or even exists for that matter. I’m holding judgement till I use them myself or meet someone who has. At this stage this could very well be the world’s longest and best prepared April Fools joke.