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Some people wear Bluetooth earpieces every waking moment.

Nobody invites those people to parties though.

Seriously, the bluetooth earpiece quickly became a universal symbol for pompous idiot. Much like the Segway is a well understood symbol of doofy nerd-dom. I will be very surprised if Google Glass wearers don't fall into one or both of those categories real fast. Until wearable computing gets MUCH more seamless, I think there will be social pressure on people who use it.

You could argue that's just because those things never hit critical mass. People checking their palm pilot calendar was doofey. People checking their smart phone calendar is normal.

The devil is in the details. Styluses were too slow as input, and the device was separate from the main comms device.

The social pressure of always being video recorded could be interesting. Same pressure you feel writing something on facebook: "What will my Mom think of this comment..." Now you see someone with Google Glass show up at the party and it's time to put your video persona on (and your pants).

it's on the side of their head and its very small and hardly noticeable.

This is on your face. In front of your eyes and it's very noticeable. They need to partner with fashion brands and put this on real fashionable glasses/sunglasses. Imagine Versace with Google Glass.

One of the things that struck me while they were doing the "fashion demo" was that if they made it symmetric (even with just a plastic facade on the other side), it'd be a lot more pleasing to look at. I'm sure we'll see styles like that.

I disagree. Asymmetry has for a long time been a staple of fashion:

http://famecherry.com/fashionista-now/fashionista-now-the-as...

Google may or may not be able to propel Glass into being a fashion icon - but if they fail I really don't think the device being asymmetrical will have anything to do with it.

I agree. However, G-Glass is a bigger cross between fashion and tech than regular smartphones.

IMHO the G-Glass should just be a monitor+camera for your phone. I think manufacturing it will be much easier and the the size of the system will be smaller which will allow people use G-Glass without anyone even noticing. Like people can go buy regular sunglasses for $100 and the G-Glass version would cost i don't know $200.

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