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Locker rooms will never be the same with Google Glass. Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it... I can already see the criminal class thinking up a multitude of uses for it.

On the plus side, it would make an excellent exercise companion. Heart rate monitor, current speed, calories burned etc.

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That's just technology and cameras. Right now they are good enough and cheap enough that one is in every pocket on your phone. 10 years and they be smaller, faster, better, and cheaper and there will be more. At some point they won't be noticable and higher fidelity then you can imagine. Good? Bad? Yep both and then there are the things we haven't thought of. It's just how technogy is.

There are already websites dedicated to catching a glimpse of a woman's breast as she goes about life (the "nip slip") there will be full hd video of people doing all sorts of embarrassing things when they thought others weren't looking. The locker room might actually be safe, there is still a moral code there and not a lot of phone camera porn

I don't understand. The glasses are in front of your eyes, so anything you record you would also be seeing naturally with your eyes. If you can record somebody's ATM button presses with the classes, you can simply see the presses with your own eyes.

We don't yet know what the specifications of the consumer Glass will be. It could have digital/optical zoom in the camera. Also a program could be written to recognise a person's fingers and make statistical assumptions about the keys they would be most likely to press.

But I think the ATM argument is moot anyway. Far easier to skim the card or simply rob them.

You think it's easier to physically overpower and rob someone than to shoulder surf? The stealing of the pin is part of the card skimming.

Brain is not a recording device, it has a shitty visual memory, you can't show the recording to your friends or share on YouTube.

Imagine that half the people in a locker room were always videotaping using normal cameras – do you expect everyone to be comfortable with that?

"Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it"

Couldn't they already do this easily with small cameras disguised in pens, buttons, etc? Or a zoom lens from afar watching an ATM?

As for locker rooms, watch out for Robert Scoble in the shower: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/inherent-dorkiness-of-...

"Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it..."

I think that's more of an argument against ATMs :)

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