Google glass parody is catching on across the Internet, with a video on Mashable being one of the more popular ones. Recently, a one day sale of Google Glass revealed that a lot of people are curious and interested in acquiring the wearable device, however, the general public seems to be etched with reservations galore.
What spurs ‘You Tubers’ to make parodies of Google Glass?
For one thing, Google’s innovative computing device, the Glass has captured the attention of the ‘average Joe’s’ or the mainstream public. The 1-day Google Glass sale was a sell out for the ‘cream’ model, and the colored versions were popular as well.
With Google Glass weeding out the computing elite from the non-techie, the headwear has virtually separated people on a ‘digital wide.’ The term is commonly used to mark the division of the poor vs the rich or the computer literate in developing countries.
The Mashable parody features a family having dinner with the ubiquitous Google Glass and is a new commercial from Colorado-based FirstBank, created by TDA_Boulder, a local ad agency.
While the mother of the house in the video dishes out the ‘green peas’, she spills them on her husband ‘because she’s busy watching on a google glass-like device which keeps her from focusing on serving dinner.
The father figure in the video along with - two adolescents - a boy and a girl are also preoccupied with their google glass screens. So, the scene looks like this: the father with a twitched face says, ‘Faster, faster, among other directions for the Glass to follow’ along with swiping gestures while his wife nonchalantly drops servings of his dinner on his lap. Yes that is fun.
Adario Strange writes for Mashable, “Across the table, the daughter is locked into posting photos and hashtagging them with the device, while the son just seems lost in a some sort of wearable computing device spasm.”
But the preoccupation with the Glass is testimony to our multitasking instincts that almost seems inevitable in an average home that is hooked on a tech device.
