My co-worker and I tried to get our work to buy one for us when they had the open buy on April 15th. They didn't go for it. I think it's a cool device but the price is about $1000 more than I would pay for a cool device that I fully expect to lose interest in in about a month. I think it would be especially cool to build apps for (and take naughty pix / videos with) but that's about it. My programming skills aren't good enough to build anything worthwhile at this point either.

As with any device, the apps are what is going to make it. It will only take off if/when people build especially amazing apps that truly impress and delight. The threshold is set very high as it has been thoroughly established that Glass is not cool. It's going to be fairly hard to turn around the lame/cool factor, especially with no real worthwhile use and a price point that's out of most people's reach.

I do think that eventually there will be some apps with very specific uses that may assist people in specific tasks. I don't know exactly but maybe some medical / research / adherence / etc. The hackers will play with it and create cool things, just like they do with the xBox Kinect right now. Filmmakers (especially in porn) will as well. Blogs will do writeups. But I predict that, unless the price is significantly lower and the apps are especially impressive, it's going to take a long time for Glass to gain any ground.

Keep in mind that when the iPad first launched, no one was a big fan of tablets either. People made iTampon jokes and pointed out that they already had a phone and a laptop, why would they need a third device? Hundreds of millions of iPads later, it seems everyone, and especially their grandmother, has one.

I'm not saying that Glass will take off in the same way. Just that sometimes people do some unexpected things with technologies the tech community isn't very impressed with.

I have much higher hopes for the watches. I've been mocking up some things for those and reading up on the UI of those. It's a fun challenge from a design standpoint and has the ability to enable people to do some really cool things.

greatscott

PS: I don't know. I got this shoutout email notif. Was it edited?