A shout out to Sean McCracken, Erie Times-News reporter, for a great article (I may be biased) on the three Erie-ites chosen for the Google Glass Explorer Project. Also shout out to Deb Morton, Mercyhurst University media relations extraordinaire, who made it all happen.

I found it remarkable that of the 8,000 people in the world chosen for the project three were from Erie. I guess one reason may be that, as you may or may not know, Erie, Pa., is a popular test market (see the list on the right). Or, on the other hand, maybe Erie-ites are just that technologically savvy.

While I still wait, impatiently I must admit, for Google to message us about the Project's status, I came across this SXSW Demo by Google Senior Developer Advocate for Project Glass Timothy Jordan, which I think is a more in-depth explanation than my previous posts.

Here's the 50-minute version:

 And, here's the version for those of us with short attention spans ;)

Of course I promise my blog followers will be the first to know when I get the Google notification. Let's just hope it's soon; my students are leaving in just a few weeks, and I would love to get some in-classroom applications in before the summer hiatus.

The video Google put out on a Day in the Life of Glass.

What my day in Glass will look like :)

 

Thank you Mashable for this awesome article about Da Vinci's Occhiovita Immagine (Eye Life Picture) and it's creepy similarity to Google Glass.

While the 8,000 or so winners wait for instructions from Google on what our next steps are (I'm keep fantasizing about some Amazing Race quest, but I have a feeling it's going to be basically--go to NYC, hand over $1,500, and, um, thanks), I'm curious as to what you'd do if you had Glass (or could borrow mine). Drop me a comment and let me know; maybe I'll letcha try it out!

PS: The waiting list is quickly growing for people who would like to 'just stop by to catch up' (of course once I have Glass that is).