{"id":15,"date":"2013-03-13T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-04-08T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T07:52:17","slug":"seeing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/2013\/03\/13\/seeing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative designs and ideas have shaped our world drastically within the last decade. Starting from the ever-evolving designs of cell phones to the popular and easy-to-use tablets, our world has adapted quickly to these new technologies. Now in 2013, the technology industry is being introduced to another pioneer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/files\/2013\/03\/photo11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/files\/2013\/03\/photo11.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/files\/2013\/03\/photo11.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/files\/2013\/03\/photo11-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glass, introduced by Google, is essentially a pair of <strong><em>glassless<\/em><\/strong> frames that has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/video\/google-glass-what-you-need-to-know-1078114\">\u201ctiny prism display which sits not in your eye line, but a little above it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/getandroidstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Google-Project-Glass3.jpg\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line = a wearable computer that has an embedded camera, microphone, GPS and ability to access the Internet without the use of one\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BTCoT8ajbI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Glass is said to launch by the end of 2013, but even with only prototypes made, there has been <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2013\/03\/13\/google-glass-competitors\/?__lsa=0cdd-c86f\">competition<\/a> in the market.<\/p>\n<p>At a hefty price of approximately $1500, Glass is a <strong>very expensive<\/strong> investment. Despite that, I still believe <em><strong>innovators<\/strong><\/em>, those buyers who want to be the first on the block to have the new product, will be lining up for days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative designs and ideas have shaped our world drastically within the last decade. Starting from the ever-evolving designs of cell phones to the popular and easy-to-use tablets, our world has adapted quickly to these new technologies. Now in 2013, the technology industry is being introduced to another pioneer. \u00a0 Glass, introduced by Google, is essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cdingcomm296\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}