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Eye-Popping Google Goggles Rumor Semi Confirmed

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Google is bringing geek to fashion with the Google glasses, dubbed Google Goggles, that is rumored to come out by the end of the year. According to the New York Times, their unnamed sources have told them that Google is set to release a pair of “glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.”

The glasses, which are not meant to be worn all the time, “will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby.” It will also feature a “small screen” that will be placed just a few inches from your eyes, which will obviously be the display screen that will feed you with whatever the built-in camera detects. The camera and screen are not the only things the glasses will tote though with the glasses coming with motion sensors, GPS, and 3G or 4G connection. The Google Goggles will run on Android and we can obviously expect Google to include their own products and services as built-in apps.

This ultimate geek gadget won’t make you look that geeky either, at least if Seth Weintraub of 9 to 5 Google is to be believed, since it’s supposed to look like a pair of Oakley Thumps. There’s no news though if it will indeed come with earphones like the Thump, much less a music player. However, how hard would it be to add that with the other hi-tech features?

It is said that the Google Goggles is expected to cost you as much as a smart phone nowadays do.

Image via Oakley

Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer Out

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Before HBO made the Game of Thrones mainstream, George RR Martin fans already knew how awesome The Song of Fire and Ice is. I remember the first time I picked up a copy of the Game of Thrones, I was a little skeptical at my sister’s overly enthusiastic review of the book. A few minutes in, and I was hooked. A couple of days later, with creaking joints and puffy eyes from reading too much, I had finished book one and ready to go out to buy book two.

I need not get into the details about why George RR Martins writing is beyond great (in depth exploration of each character), since this is supposed to be about the HBO series that introduced it to the public. Needless to say, every Song of Fire and Ice fan must have been on edge waiting for HBO’s adaptation of the Game of Thrones, fearing that it wouldn’t live up to expectations. But of course, we all know by now that most everyone’s pretty happy with how things turned out. True, I would have liked the direwolves to be a little bigger, but when it comes to the wall, I guess my spatially-challenged mind couldn’t imagine it to be as tall as that before…I love it. As for the characters, much everyone is spot on, not only in their look but also the way they carried it all off.

So why am I raving about the Game of Thrones now? Perhaps it’s because I can’t wait till Season 2 comes out on April (2 more months!!!), or perhaps its because I’ve been watching the Season 2 trailer over and over since yesterday. If you haven’t seen it yet, prepare to be left hanging.

As for me, it’s time to hit the books and brush up on the plot in time for Season 2!

Learning to Code This Code Year

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Feel like upping your geekiness level this year?

If you are not a software developer and just want to add something geeky to your resume, then you’d probably love the idea of signing up for Code Year. So just how does signing up for Code Year up your geekiness level?

Code Year participants, who are exactly 341,648 people as of this writing, are sent interactive programming lessons every Monday, which they are expected to complete within the week. So far the topics finished have are “Getting Started with Programming” and “Functions in Javascript”. Note that all of the lessons assume that you have no background in programming, so you shouldn’t be afraid that they would be too difficult for you. If anything, they might be a tad to easy for you if you already have some background in programming.

So why is it again that you should sign up for Code Year? Frankly, I don’t know. To each his own. Some might want to sign up for the fun, some to learn something new, and some because they want a taste of programming to see if they would maybe like to someday really get into programming. Whatever your reasons are (and one of mine is to gain better appreciation of what my husband does on a daily basis), you can bet that you’ll learn something new if only you give it a try.

Veteran programmer already? Then Code Year is definitely not for you, but maybe you can spread the word and have your non-programmer friends try it out.

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