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First video with Google Glass
I’m really having fun experimenting with Google Glass. Yesterday, when it was -12F outside my snowy Michigan home, I put on my boots, parka and fur hat with earflaps and wore Glass out in the elements to see how it did recording video. Here’s a video I did for my RV travel blog shot entirely with Glass. http://roadtreking.com/rv-heater/ I was anxious to see how Glass video looks and put this together in just a few minutes. So it’s nothing very creative but does, I think, show that Glass has some great possibilities for journalists looking to incorporate POV video into their films. I plan to use it a lot on…
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Unboxing Google Glass; Now what?
I’ve got Google Glass. Now what? I’m anxious to learn because this is the year Google Glass gets released to the general public. I’m not sure when, though most of those who have been invited into the Explorer program made up of so-called tech influencers are guessing by spring. Google Glass costs $1,500. It is not cheap. But it is much more than a Sci-Fi-looking pair of spectacles. It’s a small computer with its own trackpad, wi-fi, Bluetooth and apps that just happens to rest on your face instead of your desktop or lap. As such, it’s the first major wave of wearable computers. I’ll have a series of reports…
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Mike Predicts top 2014 Tech Trend: Wearables
At a New Year begins, I do a lot of radio and TV interviews with journalists asking me what I think are the top tech trends for the next year. Two years ago, I said Android would be the top mobile OS. Last year, I said it would be the tablet war. I was right on both counts. For 2014, I’m predicting it will be wearable technology. This trend has been gathering momentum ever since the amazingly versatile little GoPro cameras entered the scene a few years back. Thanks to a bunch of ingenious mounts, the GoPro can be attached to bike helmets, worn on the body, suction cupped to…
