How far is too far for wearable tech?

That is ridiculous. They did raise almost half a million dollars though so there must be some people that like it.

Something something Snow Crash Gargoyles

Oh, wow, look at that! Turns out I've already got one of those!

Hey, it's a real-life Pip-Boy!

Actually, while falling firmly in the category of "not for me", this does seem kind of technologically inevitable. Smart watches will never much more than a novelty (checking the time & weather sure, but imagine watching The Avengers on a watch). But a device that's basically a wrist-mounted cel phone makes sense, and they can't be lost or easily stolen. Seems like the logical next step until we get something REALLY sci-fi like holographic screens that hover in mid-air.

Totally reminds me of this story from NPR: Can a computer change the essence of who you are?

Here's a link to the full Invisibilia podcast (which I highly recommend).

Have to say that the way Thad Starner defends "wearables" really made me think differently about them, but mainly because he has custom functionality built into his that we don't have on a large scale (such as being able to quickly and unobtrusively search a database of topics based on what someone says to you and having related information pop up in your HUD).

I love my smartphone. I love being connected to millions of people around the world at all times and being able to access the whole of human knowledge and history in an instant.

I still don't think if I want the device that does that to be in my face or apart of me 100% of the time. I like being able to turn off my phone or put it down for a while to quiet the constant feed of information and noise, and that's important for me.

I would avoid it simply for the unsightly tan lines.

I totally thought the subject line of this topic said "Wearable Teeth".

Whenever I see or hear folks talking about this sort of thing in this sort of language, one of the first things I think is:

It's not a matter of the technology going too far; the problem is that the technology doesn't yet go far enough.

I've said this elsewhere in these forums, but I don't mind saying it again: I'm willing--and indeed eager--to wear and embed and be embedded in technology of various sorts. I want to be bionic, a cyborg, or, yaknow, if it pleases you to think of it this way, a monstrous human-technology hybrid. I wish I believed that they'll be ready to copy my consciousness into a computer before I die or that the tech to extend life will be sufficiently perfected, but, alas, I'm pretty sure they won't.

The problem now is that the widely available consumer technology is mostly way too clunky and unsophisticated for such an interface.

I envision a world where we don't use speak-to-text, but think-to-text; where driver directions aren't projected onto a headsup display, but directly through my visual cortex; where in a very real way, my consciousness is able to navigate the internet directly, expansively, as an entity in some literal way traveling through and engaging data and not merely peering into it through a narrow and rigid portal.