SF News Google Glass Be Damned, Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Glasses Looks like Amazon's going to try to succeed where Google and Snapchat have more or less failed. Alexa, remind me to tell Bezos to cool it for a minute. According to a report
SF News Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be
Arts & Entertainment Apple Reportedly Looking To Kill It Where Google Couldn't With iPhone-Connected Glasses Can Apple succeed where Google couldn't in bringing a wearable face computer to market? Bloomberg reported Monday that while this is "still in an exploration phase," sources within or close to Apple say
SF News Goodbye Google Glass, Hello Google Eyeball Google yesterday filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an electronic device that would be implanted directly into peoples' eyeballs. While it's all very preliminary, Forbes notes
SF News Someone Finally Found A Use For Google Glass (Hint: Not Wearing Them) Google Glass, amirite folks? The much-ridiculed and short-lived face-computers officially got the axe early last year when Google announced it was halting their sale. However, we learned late last year that Alphabet intended
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
Arts & Entertainment Is That '94110' Series Just An Elaborate Prank? The local media, ourselves included, have been agape at the tech-absurdity and apparent shallowness of the proposed TV series about the Mission titled 94110 that put out an open casting call back in
SF News Google Says Glass Isn't Over Yet Never fear, Glassholes. Though many predicted the end had come when Google announced it would halt commercial sales of its wearable technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, the platform and facecomputer are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Google Glass Broke Here is a most excellent long-read by Nick Bilton on "Why Google Glass Broke," and how that whole strategy with the Explorers backfired. [NYT] Twitter CEO admits that they “suck” at dealing with
SF News Google Saves Face, Halts Sales Of Glass Google Glass, once heralded as the future, is now set to exist only in the past. As we'd heard was likely a couple months ago, the project is officially being put on hiatus,
SF News Is Google Glass Over? God I Hope So. All of our fears of a city or, dear Jesus, a nation crawling with Glassholes appear to be unfounded. As Reuters reports, engineers at Google have fled the project left and right and
SF News Is Twitter Trying To Distance Itself From Google Glass (Or Its Users)? Sorry, Glassholes! Looks like you won't be tweeting from your face computers any more, as according to one of their "Explorers," the microblogging company has given up on development of an app for
SF News Dubai Cops To Become Glassholes Dubai police officers are about to look like that Glasshole your friends like to mock in SF bars thanks to Google Glass. Reuters is reporting that the Dubai boys in blue are going
Arts & Entertainment Comic-Con Geeks Also Ban Google Glass The geekfest known as Comic-Con kicks off today in San Diego and — as the Los Angeles Times reports — Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), and the casts of shows like Game
SF News Is Silicon Valley Making The World A Dumber Place? This week, a freelancer for the British newspaper The Guardian called out Silicon Valley for creating a “tech utopia nobody wants.” JR Hennessy, who lives in Sydney, Australia, targets his criticism at San
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Daily Show Lampoons Google Glass On The Streets Of S.F. Finally here to distill everyone's uneasiness with Google Glass into five perfect minutes of television is The Daily Show's Jason Jones. For the segment, which was shot back in May in San Francisco,
SF News One-Hour Battery Life And Other Reasons Google Glass Might Suck One of the first tech writers to be balls-out honest instead of sycophantically, droolingly gaga about the functionality of Google Glass is Computer World's Matt Lake. In a piece titled "Why I'm Sending
SF News OK, Seriously This Time: Google Glass Available To Anyone With $1,500 After Explorer programs and limited betas and complete accidents, Google Glass is now for sale to anyone who with $1,500 to spend and desire to have all the features of a basic
Arts & Entertainment Google Glass Checks-in at Fairmont Nob Hill seems to be the place to openly wear Google Glass without fear of backlash. Take, for example, the Fairmont San Francisco. The hotel's concierge, Tom Wolfe, has been hailed as the
SF News Starting Today, Anyone In The U.S. Can Buy Google Glass [Update: Not Really] After briefly making their $1,500 face computer available to the general public earlier this month, Google has apparently re-opened the sale of Glass to anyone in the U.S. Before going on
SF News Google Glass Wants To Help, Announces Contest For U.S. Nonprofits And just to show you that we here at SFist are not always about pouring a piping-hot demitasse of venom on Google Glass, the face computer you hate to hate (because, hey, growing
SF News Google Has Now Patented A Contact Lens Camera Oh, for god's sake. The overlords at the Googleplex, not satisfied to have everyone wearing face computers that can easily attract shaming and be snatched off their faces, are at work on a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Etiquette: Is It Ever OK To Wear Google Glass? Google's geekiest and most misunderstood piece of jewelry went on sale to the general public today, which means there will be even more people wearing computers on their faces in the near future.
SF News Tech Reporter Says He Was Assaulted For Wearing Google Glass On Friday, after another Google protest marched through the Mission, Business Insider tech reporter Kyle Russell became the latest victim of anti-Glass sentiment when, he claims, he wore his $1,500 face computer
SF News Google Will Graciously Let Anyone Buy Google Glass Next Week Now that Google Glass has gotten a nice reputation as an exclusive toy for nerds, celebrities and rude bar patrons, the company will graciously open up sales of the $1,500 device to
