First the PT Cruiser, now Google Glass. Society’s love affair with fashion-adverse, misguided technology took another hit this week as Google announced it is shelving its computerized eyewear that combined the futuristic cachet of the USS Enterprise’s Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge with the clueless douche-baggery of a dude walking down the street talking into a blue tooth headset because his hands are oh-so-busy doing other, way more important stuff.
According to the BBC, the company responsible for the expensive novelty item insists “smart glasses” will one day become a viable consumer product, and future versions of Google Glass are in the works, probably in some super-secret lab where scientists are also developing ways to make orthotic runners not look like something your dad would buy at Costco (sorry, coworkers). But for all intents and purposes, Google Glass is dead. We would shed a single tear, but we worry it might short-circuit our eyewear as we use our pupils to scroll through the Old Navy website in search of cheap pajama pants for going to the grocery store.
