Have you ever wished that you could work your cell phone without having to touch your cell phone? By the end of this year, that dream just may come true thanks to the Google X Team and the futuristic sunglasses they appear to be developing.
Yes, you read that correctly! We ARE that lazy to want something like this! Google has been working on sunglasses that will let users do all sorts of things that they would otherwise need cell phones to do. The lenses will actually be special screens that show text messages and emails.
There is also going to be GPS and a camera so you can take secret photos of everything you look at… sounds like dangerous territory to us. The lenses will even be able to take users onto the Internet.
The only problem is that the screens won’t work as actual glasses lenses (funny enough), so you would have to turn the camera on to be able to see where you’re going…unless you don’t mind walking into walls and trees and things. Using these things indoors will probably make people look one of two things: totally silly, or like a rock star. Previously when people were wearing sunglasses indoors, we assumed they were hiding a stye.
The glasses sound sort of uncomfortable, but could also be pretty cool. But what does this mean for cell phones? Could Google’s sunglasses destroy cell phones as we know it? We’ll just have to wait and see. Till then, we’ll just have to “text” and “push buttons” the old fashioned way.