Google Glass Goes Unobtrusive In ‘Buddy-Holly-Style’ With ‘Projector Device’ Neatly Tucked Away Inside Frame, Workplace Potential Amid Privacy Issues A Hurdle. With so much negative publicity surrounding the Google Glass, the wearable will carry a more ‘unobtrusive’ design in the future, according Google patent photos included in this report.
Google glass inventors Mitchell Heinrich and Eliot Kim have obtained a patent for Google - US Patent D710, 928 – which hides the glass technology inside the frames, making the Google glass concept more subtle and less threatening in a social setting. The major resistance against the use of Google Glass stems from using a camera or video cam secretly and without consent. This creates a problem for advocates of ‘privacy’, particularly in the workplace. The scare that Glass would add to security threats and ‘open up a Pandora’s box’ of a new breed of hackers putting sensitive company information, passwords and financial information running amuck on the Web.
Although there aren’t too many details spurting out from the new patent on Google Glass design, it does make the wearable look like a more appealing design that might attract the mainstream consumer. CNET describes the fairly regular type glasses in a ‘Buddy-Holly-style.’ Explorers and others who have opposed to the current style, which looks like a miniature hanging off to the side will find the patented design that neatly packs the ‘display’ into a low-key design that trimly fits inside the right side of the frames.
Heinrich who is an engineer at Google told reporters, "Early stage mechanical architecture layout (involved) lead the consumer packaging development for the explorer release. Developed human factors numerical and physical models to fit Glass on as many people as possible. Co-developed the bone conduction audio system including component design and testing. Broad range of low and high fidelity prototype development."
Apart from the design concept itself, another important shift brought about by wearables like Google Glass and the iWatch that offer a huge technological advantage even if used as facilitating tasks, is the need for company guidelines to use wearables at the workplace. This is an ongoing debate that will require tech firms to make independent regulations and a policy to protect privacy and security of information.
Meanwhile, Information Age reported WatchDox’s Ryan Kalember as saying, “IT teams need to develop policies and deliver technologies that let employees enjoy the benefits of these tools without risking sensitive company data."
