Bert Haanstra’s Glas is a short 10-minute documentary from 1958 about glass that won an Oscar. It’s a beautiful short that shows the art of glass blowing versus the character-less mechanism of automated glass bottle making machines. There’s no voice over, no narration, just beautiful scenes of glass being made. It’s like porn for manufacturing. Even while you don’t understand what’s going on, it’s lovely to see
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
A user named Zhouwei has taken a thorough look at the latest Google Glass Explorer XE7 version and found a few gems, including a possible app store called the Boutique. That would make sense given that there’s no central repository for apps right now, and the code indicates that Glassware and APKs could be synced to the hardware via such a market. Other changes of note are a lock-screen that would work by swiping a lock pattern (there’s currently only an unofficial app for that) and some kind of video player, though there’s no info on how the latter might work. We’re not sure how much of this code will actually be enabled when it hits our own device, but an app store and some proper built-in security would be nice.
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Via: Slashgear
Source: Zhouwei (Github Gist)
I love the Mac Pro.
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Google has nearly finished rolling out Glass to Explorer Program members, but many of us still have questions while the technology remains rare. The company is satisfying some of that curiosity today: it just posted a FAQ that explains Glass beyond the hardware. While there are no revelations in store, the page goes out of its way to address some of the controversies surrounding Glass, including app policies, privacy concerns and the risk of technology addiction. It’s doubtful that the FAQ will please everyone, but those who just have to get some official answers on Glass can find them at the source link.
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Source: Google
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
For as crazily sci-fi as Google Glass is, it’s been missing a big feature until just now: a web browser. Thanks to this month’s big update to the specs, you can finally dispense with one-use apps and surf the whole web like a real person. Kinda.
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Google has delivered a steady stream of Glass updates since the Explorer Edition launched, but its new July upgrade may be the biggest yet — it addresses several of our earliest gripes. Wearers can now answer phone calls or have messages read aloud. It’s also now possible to call or message any Gmail contact, not just the top ten. Oh, and that hidden web browser? It’s now public: Glass owners can ask to see a favorite page and navigate using the touchpad. If you’re one of the precious few to sport Google’s eyewear, you should automatically receive the much-improved firmware in the next few days; we’ve already heard of at least one user getting the upgrade today.
Update: We now have screenshots of how browsing works in the update — check them out below.
Gallery: Google Glass July 2013 update
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Source: Project Glass (Google+)
Relax mutants. That is not a real sentinel. You can go back to your schoolwork which Professor X is expecting in the morning. This awesome stained glass creation was made by Zero Wing Labs and it looks amazing.
You have to love those comic book colors as the Sun shines through and the details throughout. It belongs in a bad guy mutant place of worship alongside Juggernaut and Toad and other villains. Forgive me father, it has been 10 years since my last mutant capture… Dear God, the pain! I’ll do better, I swear.
This thing looks like it came straight from the pages X-Men. Awesome glass pages.
[via Obvious Winner]
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