I'm ordering Google Glass which are very handy to record meetings for later review. Until then my little shirt pocket JVC recorder will do.
Yesterday, Google released a new video again touting its Google Glass head-mounted display and speech recognition system, which is now out of its "project" phase and ready to be released as a beta product.
In the YouTube video How It Feels, Google goes through all the things a wearer would be able to do, from taking pictures and video hands-free to having Google search results appear before one's eyes.
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 Google is making the device available to purchase, but only to a very select few. They're having a contest to choose who will have a chance to purchase their own Google Glass, asking people to write what they would do with it in 50 words or less.
The winners of the contest, which is open only to Americans, will have to pay $1,500 US to pre-order Google Glass, and get themselves to New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles to collect their purchase at a "special pick-up experience."
Besides the idea of having your email, text messages and unwanted ads obscuring your vision, the aspect that has been most parodied about Google Glass is that they make the wearer — how to put this? — look like a huge dork.
The predecessor of Google Glass: pic.twitter.com
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Google is really trying to make this thing look cool. They had models wearing them at New York Fashion Week last year and posted a glossy portfolio of beautiful people and their Google Glasses on Google+.
The tech giant is apparently going to be tweaking the design, too. The New York Times reports that Google is looking to partner with Warby Parker, a trendy New York start-up that sells designer eyewear online, to make Glass look more like this:
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