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Saying "comma", "period", "question mark", "exclamation point" and "return" work with Android, at least in the newest version. You have to kind of pause before them to get them to work.

BTW, my swiftkeyX just updated to include swype functionality and I now love it so much. I always went back and forth between Swiftkey and Swype for a keyboard and now it's the best of both worlds.
 
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Good to know they finally fixed that stuff, I guess I'll have to start using it more often. Also, has anyone else been using Google Now? It's basically their answer to Siri.
 
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It seems kind of neat. It's useless for me because I live in the middle of nowhere, but it has some interesting stuff when I'm in a city.
 
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I like that it somehow knows when I'm going to work or going home and tells me how bad traffic is on my route and eta, I'm sure it will only get better with time.
 
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It'll also take searches from your desktop (addresses/etc) and give you Google Now cards to those locations as well.

I personally like the cards that give me traffic info to calendar events.
 
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I noticed somebody sitting courtside last night at the Warriors game wearing these. Undoubtedly a Googler, it was just weird to be watching a game then while focusing on the bench during a timeout there's this guy sitting there wearing funky glasses, flicking his finger around next to one of the lenses. "Woah that guy's wearing Google Glass!" It's going to be strange if these things catch on.
 
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A good read on the pitfalls of wearable tech from a guy who's been researching it for the past 35 years:Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life

My concern comes from direct experience. The very first wearable computer system I put together showed me real-time video on a helmet-mounted display. The camera was situated close to one eye, but it didn?t have quite the same viewpoint. The slight misalignment seemed unimportant at the time, but it produced some strange and unpleasant results. And those troubling effects persisted long after I took the gear off. That?s because my brain had adjusted to an unnatural view, so it took a while to readjust to normal vision.
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Also, there's been some backlash to Glass because of the privacy aspect:The Google Glass feature no one is talking about

Just think: if a million Google Glasses go out into the world and start storing audio and video of the world around them, the scope of Google search suddenly gets much, much bigger, and that search index will include you. Let me paint a picture. Ten years from now, someone, some company, or some organization, takes an interest in you, wants to know if you?ve ever said anything they consider offensive, or threatening, or just includes a mention of a certain word or phrase they find interesting. A single search query within Google?s cloud ? whether initiated by a publicly available search, or a federal subpoena, or anything in between ? will instantly bring up documentation of every word you?ve ever spoken within earshot of a Google Glass device.
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Which, to me, is a non-concern. Right now, you can go outside and be photographed/videotaped by anyone with a smartphone -- and never even know it. And everyone has a smartphone nowadays. Putting a camera on your face doesn't make that truism any less true, just more apparent. Also, if Glass was constantly streaming video to Google, it'd get like 30 minutes of battery and your data plan would be crushed. It just bothers me that people can get so paranoid about privacy in public.
 
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Neph_sl said:
Putting a camera on your face doesn't make that truism any less true, just more apparent.
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I disagree pretty strongly. The hands-free nature of the glasses, combined with the implicit promise that Google will do everything they are technologically able to do in order to make this as close to an "always on" service as they can (i.e. if not always on, at least possible to enable at the twitch of an eye), makes this far more creepy and invasive than current handheld audio/video/internet devices.

The fact that a sizable demographic in the US (and presumable the rest of the world also) has made a very lucrative business out of putting reality tv "celebrities" up on pedestals so everyone can envy those 15 minutes even more than they envy flashy expensive new frivolous gadgets... well not only does that fact make me fear for the continuance of our species in and of itself, but it also makes me think that there's going to be a sizable demographic of idiots that will throw money at Google's attempts to give everybody the 15 minutes they're entitled to by dint of birth.
 
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Melvin_sl said:
I disagree pretty strongly. The hands-free nature of the glasses, combined with the implicit promise that Google will do everything they are technologically able to do in order to make this as close to an "always on" service as they can (i.e. if not always on, at least possible to enable at the twitch of an eye), makes this far more creepy and invasive than current handheld audio/video/internet devices.
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The thing that rubs people the wrong way is the fact that you can't tell whether or not someone is currently taking a movie. And to that end, I get it. It's creepy not to know whether or not you're being recorded, whether it's from a face mounted camera or even just someone playing on their smartphone.

But on the other hand, if you're in some public space (be it a bar, touristy place, public transport, etc), the potential is there, and has been growing for every single camera/connected device sold. I can activate the camera on my phone in the same amount of time that it takes to tell Glass to record a video. Do you not go to places where people are taking photos and video that will in all likelihood be uploaded onto the internet with dates and geotags? Of course not. It's just a fact of modern life that everyone has the potential to record you.
 
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Yeah, these things are going to be the death of my daily masturbation sessions at the park.


Ormaybethey are the start of something even better...
 
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If someone wants to secretly record you, there are much better ways to do it than something that is mounted on their face.
 
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Watch the 3rd episode of the first season of the BBC drama Black Mirror. The future of glass? ?
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
If someone wants to secretly record you, there are much better ways to do it than something that is mounted on their face.
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Who said anything about anything happening in secret? I thought I was complaining about how obnoxious and crass it would be if it were successful, personally.
 
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Watch the 3rd episode of the first season of the BBC drama Black Mirror. The future of glass? ?
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It's not a BBC program, just because something is British does not mean the BBC made it...we have other channels too you know!
 
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It's not a BBC program, just because something is British does not mean the BBC made it...we have other channels too you know!
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My bad. The file I downloaded had the BBC 4 TV HD logo on the top and I just assumed. It won't happen again!
 
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Melvin_sl said:
Who said anything about anything happening in secret? I thought I was complaining about how obnoxious and crass it would be if it were successful, personally.
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A lot of people are up in arms about how you won't be able to tell if someone is recording you or not. I'm just saying that is already true.
 
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