All Things Technology

Google Glass, the internet-connected eyewear, has been around for a while now---well, two years, to be precise. Since the day Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed off the gadget to a crowd of tech enthusiasts at an event in San Francisco, the smart eyewear has really made it easy for people to lead their lives, and maybe hell, to some people( I call them the Glasshaters). Hell in the sense that some owners of Google Glass(otherwise known as Glass Explorers)  infringe on peoples' privacy by recording them without their knowledge or permission. But, in all of these, Google Glass has proven to be a useful tool that you and I can leverage to achieve anything, in any given field. Doubt me? Read on.

In January, a team of surgeons in India revealed that they performed a foot and ankle surgery on a patient with Google Glass. So what role did it play you might ask. Well Google Glass helped the surgeons to broadcast the whole thing live on the internet for you and I to see what's going on.

The New York Police Department(Or NYPD) equipped its cops with Google Glass. What for? To help fight against crime in the city, as well as speed up the process of investigation. Watch the movie Terminator and you will get their idea: Identify a criminal without accosting him.



Virgin Atlantic, Sir Richard Branson's airline, is also using Google Glass. The British airline outfitted its concierge staff at London Hearthrow airport with Google Glass, to attend to customers better. You see, with Google Glass, those beautiful women don't need to ask for your name or any other thing you might need. That's because they have already gotten your name, flight details and the best key to your stomach, all thanks to Google Glass.

Like the doctors in India, University of California Irvine School of Medicine also gave Google Glass out to its first, second, third and fourth students, to help them in their anatomy and clinical course and during hospital rotations . Apart from that, they can go through a patients data with Google Glass, while still paying keen attention to the patient.

And more recently, Google Glass is helping a blind teenager to keep dancing.