TheGlassLog: Sometimes it's good to be Glassy (#Google Threw Us a #Glass Party!)

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Google threw us a party! YAY!

One of the big fat pills we Glass Explorers had to swallow was the price of entry into our exclusive little club. $1500 (plus tax!) for the right to beta test Google's new gadget seems to most folks to be a lot to ask. I wish Google hadn't done it this way, for strictly selfish reasons, but I understand why they did it. They wanted to make sure we were invested in putting Glass through its paces. The best way to make sure we're invested? Make us invest!

But with all that money we've all spent, a lot of us have been wondering if we'd be seeing any other bang for our bucks. I read a couple people online say that they hoped to see Google give each of us Explorers the first consumer version of Glass for free. That sure would be nice, but as we're still many moons from that, it's nice to see Google showing some appreciation in the meantime. Last night was the Glass Explorer Social--a big party thrown in honor of us.

Infographic by Martin Missfeldt shows exactly how #GoogleGlass will work on my eye (Kinda Invasively IMO)

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I've always felt a little weirded out with the idea of tech projecting something directly on my retina. It seems like it would be a little too easy to make me see something that isn't there. Like if someone hacked my Glass. I'm sure I'm just paranoid, but still, if it's possible to hack anything, it's possible. It'll be just short of being able to insert something directly in your mind. If you close your eyes, the image vanishes. But the fear instinct doesn't always let you look away.

Otherwise, I think this is a pretty cool device. I can't wait to get my hands on mine. That's right, I was selected as one of Google's Glass Explorers:

https://twitter.com/projectglass/status/318137531814248448

I just hope they hold their events in NY, LA and San Francisco soon since I'm taking a long weekend out of town later in April and going away for much longer in mid-May. It would suck if I had to skip getting my glass because I was going to be out of town. Neither trip can be postponed--one is a party celebrating my late step-dad's life and the other involves a cruise ship that goes to Europe, so, yeah, unpostponable. I know, first-world problems, but problems nonetheless.

Fingers crossed!