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GeekNights Monday - Google Glass First Look
Tonight on GeekNights, Scott has Google Glass and we discuss some first impressions. In the news, John Carmack is now the CTO for Oculus VR (maker of the Oculus Rift), big cell phones aren't better, and dark email providers are biting the dust.
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Time to buy a new mixer...
Still, idle ribbing aside, if you can't find the problem easily, or fix it easily, might as well buy a new one. After all, judging by how long the Xenyx lasted you, you'll get your money's worth.
And I'll have you know that my DS Phat is still in perfect condition.
Also, making the phone bigger does not increase the number of devices it replaces. Only adding features does that. All the phones have pretty much the same features, just different specs.
b) You can use a different app for podcasts.
While that is somewhat annoying, there are options for an Android phone and there is really no reason or necessity to have a separate device for music if you have an android phone.
In any case, your declaration that you would need an iPod if you were an Android user is ridiculous.
iPod has had this feature since they added podcasts with the iPod nano in 2005.
I use Pocket Casts on Android and it is just as good, if not better, than Downcast, which was definitely the best podcasting app on iOS when I left the platform. I cannot imagine synching podcasts w/ my computer. New episodes just download to my phone while I sleep and I don't have to think about it.
I do agree with Scott though that Android BLOWS as a media player. Very poor interface and playback control, especially lock screen playback control. Windows Phone was great at this. If I paused a song or a podcast, the lock screen would remember the last thing I played for DAYS and let me resume at any time. It was built into the OS. For android, I'd have to mount a widget for each media playback app onto my lock screen and it still might not work. Sorting through stuff in Android also blows, whether it be song titles, artists, or even your contacts. Much better in Windows Phone and iOS.
I have made some complaints, such as the speaker quality, but it really is worth restating how impressive the device is from a weight/feel standpoint. They really hit a home run. This is not a trivial accomplishment, and I only expect the device's form factor to improve with time.
Also, even though the speaker is crap for anything other than beeps and bloops, the microphone does a good job of picking up my speech even in noisy environments.
There are several gesture functions that they don't teach you when you pick up the device, and you'd only learn if you read the pdf documentation: tap and hold to jump right into a google search, swipe forward or backward without waking the device up to skip right into cards.
I don't seem to have the same problem as Scott w/ Twitter. I only get @ replies pushed to Glass, not random tweets from people.
As for the external charger device, if you've seen any of the videos of Sergey Brin doing the Glass demo on stage, he has it plugged in with a cord running down his neck, right alongside his microphone wire. It can definitely be done!
The MyGlass app is very useful b/c it gets you GPS and text messages. The GPS is walking directions and is incredibly helpful in urban environments. I have been going to NYC at least one per month for over a decade, and I will make no claims of knowing every street. Fuck, I don't think people who live there for decades could claim that. Step out of unfamiliar locations, "ok glass, get directions to " BOOM, start walking the optimal path.
When I wear Glass, it's because I'm out and about doing something. I only want to be distracted if it's important, and I can't understate how awesome it is that Google filters out the non-important communication directed at me. It filters my texts down to my pre-loaded Glass contacts, and emails to my contacts and/or "important" flag. You do not ever take the phone out of your pocket. If it vibrates and does not push to glass, it was almost definitely some junk email or a text you don't need to reply to right now.
I have actually kept Glass on when computing sometimes, and I wind up being hyper-focused on whatever I am working on. No tabs, no twitter or gmail open on the side. If something needs my attention, Glass will tell me. Otherwise: focus!
MyGlass is coming to iPhone at some point, and I would hope Google Apps support will too. It's too bad Scott can't user either at the moment, because text/email through Glass has been awesome.
The number one failure of Bluetooth is that you will have two devices with bluetooth that can potentially do awesome things in conjunction with each other. Yet, one or both of the devices have not implemented the necessary profiles fully in software. Developers. If you make a device with Bluetooth, provide software for as many profiles as possible.