Google founder Sergey Brin says the company’s new internet glasses could free web browsers from “emasculating” smartphones.
Brin made the comments in a speech to the Technology, Education and Design (TED) conference in Los Angeles.
“Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do with your body?” he asked.
“I have a nervous tic. The cell phone is a nervous habit — If I smoked, I’d probably smoke instead, It’d look cooler. But I whip this out and look as if I have something important to do. It really opened my eyes to how much of my life I spent secluding myself away in email.”
HumanIPO reported last week eight thousand test pairs of the much anticipated Google Glasses will be sent to carefully selected competition winners to try out the hi-tech specs.
The web giant said they are looking for “bold, creative individuals” to test the glasses, but the chosen Google Explorers will have to pay US$1,500 for the privilege.
Brin previewed Google Glass to the TED audience, saying using the hardware was “a little freaky at first, but you get used to it”.
Last week a bidding war took place on eBay after a US man claimed to have a pair of the glasses for sale, though it subsequently proved to be a hoax.
