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Wearable technology used by Minnesota Vikings in camp

07/31/201407/28/2014 Julie Campbell

The team is using Google Glass to help to provide itself with a competitive edge heading into the next season. The Minnesota Vikings are now looking to the world of wearable technology to help them to be able to gain a bit of an edge as they take their first steps toward the 2014 NFL season, and they have decided to use Google Glass as their tech of choice. The team will be using Google Glass for their practices while they are at camp, this summer. This will mean that…

Google Glass was banned from certain Comic-Con program rooms

07/30/201407/28/2014 Julie Campbell

In an effort to keep super secret screenings from leaking, the augmented reality glasses were not permitted inside. Comic-Con has now added itself to a growing list of locations that has created a ban for the Google Glass augmented reality headgear – at least when it came to certain parts of the event’s experiences. The event organizers for Comic-Con felt that it was necessary to ban the augmented reality device from some screenings. This is not at all out of the ordinary. Owners of Google Glass are finding that the…

Google Glass creator drawn in by Amazon

07/17/201407/17/2014 L. Green

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Following the launch of the online marketplace’s first smartphone this wearable technology expert has been lured in. The expert at the head of the wearable technology development project for Google Glass is now moving over to one of the company’s direct rivals, Amazon, following the release of their Fire Phone smartphone. One of the Google X directors, Babak Parviz, posted about the move on his Google+ page. Parviz had been one of the heads at the secretive research lab where Google Glass was first born. He is leaving the search…

App puts a new spin on wearable technology

07/16/201407/13/2014 Stephen Vagus

Google Glass gets a new app that allows users to control it with their minds A new application for Google Glass could change the way people take pictures with a mobile device. The new app is called MindRDR and is developed by This Place, a firm based in the United Kingdom. The app makes use of a biosensor that is designed to measure signals from the brain. These signals are then translated into commands that tell Glass how to operate. Such an app could change the way people use Glass…

Wearable technology hits the Toronto Men’s Fashion Week runways

07/01/201406/28/2014 Julie Campbell

Geek chic continues to bring tech to the haute couture world and it is now soaring to new heights. Wearable technology has already been taking off in the sports world with fitness trackers and wristbands selling very quickly, but other forms of wearables have had a hard time making their way into the mainstream as they have not been seen as appealing or stylish. The Toronto Men’s Fashion Show and Wearables Toronto may be helping to change that perspective. While wearing his tangerine Google Glass, Tom Emrich from Wearables Toronto…