Society places a bizarre amount of weight on when a writer or artist creates their first real successful work—blame our obsession with youth or tiger moms or whatever. Still, it’s interesting to see if there’s a correlation between your age and the best work of your career there’s—this diagram helps us do just that.
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The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of "graphical statistics," aka data visualization. And it’s made more of an impact on our world that you might imagine.
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The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of "graphical statistics," aka data visualization. And it’s made more of an impact on our world that you might imagine.
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Ugh, it never fails. No matter the size of the group, you always seem to get stuck sitting next to someone you’d rather not be—an overtly intoxicated uncle at your brother’s wedding, a co-worker that believes closed-mouth chewing is more suggestion than rule, or the girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party. More »
Along with a lot of publicity, Project Glass from Google has generated a bevy of approved patents and applications, but the latest one shows that the search giant’s trying to wrap up the whole kit and kaboodle — replete with detailed diagrams and descriptions to back it up. Specifically, Mountain View is claiming the design of the frame itself including the bridge, brow portion, transparent display, input device plus the means for affixing everything. There are detailed descriptions of how the device can be configured — for instance, one claim states that the screen could be adjusted “normal to the focal center of the eye,” and the position of the electronics placed “over a first side of the ear.” It goes on to explain the need for a balancing weight “over the second side” of the same ear in the latter case, such that “a majority of the overall weight is applied” to one side, which certainly jibes with some of what we’ve seen. That’s just for starters, though — head after the break to see more diagrams and details.
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Source: USPTO
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