Wearable Glass and 360° vision

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Disruptive technologies have a way to get through from SciFi to market success in a few years, witness mirrorless cameras.

A few observers forsee the same for Google Glass, the wearable device getting mainstream this year : shall we kiss goodbye our smartphones? I would shed no tears. This is an preliminary article anyway: we'll see how things pan out. For the moment this is more an inventory of links, than an assessment, but I have no doubts that wearable technology is already taking long strides.

For the moment universal use seems hardly likely, except for the affluent, with Google Glass selling to a selected few at $ 1500  as part of the Google Explorer program. Google has just expanded to Britain the Explorer Program,selling the Glass for UKP 1000, offering in the meanwhile  new  glass frames that could be compatible with prescription lenses in the UK.

Here at Wikipedia the last specs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass

What drew my attention however is the appearance of a Chinese clone , the SimEye.

 At $500 it seems far more reasonable. The difference is in the number of app offered, and the fact that it doesn't respond to voice controls like the original, and has no sound transmission through the skull bones like Google. But it can still take photographs and record movies with 4 times the definition of Google. And it can still download apps directly from Google Android Libraries.

Would that be able to interface with one of my cameras?

Information Technology Career List

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I once had to give a talk explaining what kids of jobs were available for graduates in computer science and information technology. The talk developed into a kind of information technology career list. It started with the question :

What is a career in computer technology?

And continued :

Is it just sitting in front of a glowing box all day? Not at all!

A career in information technology is a rewarding, challenging career, with many possible paths open to you. If your passion is interacting with people, listening to them, understanding what they want, the System Analyst is the role for you. On the other hand, if you love directing and coordinating a team of hard-working individuals, you should aim high and become a Project Leader. On the other hand, some really do prefer the joy of coding - willing the glowing box to do their bidding. Far from being a couch potato, the Programmer's position is one many find extremely rewarding. There are many branches to the Information Technology career tree. Read on to find out more about some of them, and decide which one you'd like to squirrel up to.

First of all, any modern career is a challenge. For a graduate to succeed our rapidly changing world requires skills rarely taught in school or university - skills such as flexibility and adaptability, the willingness to continually learn, mixed together with a good dose of creativity, and good ole getting along well with colleagues, bosses and customers. This is equally true, if not more, in the field of information technology. Technologies and techniques change continually, and the most nimble-minded are the ones who thrive. On another page I talk about how best to obtain these soft skills, and some of the pitfalls that a new graduate should beware of when embarking on a career in information technology or computer science. For now, I'll describe for you some typical information technology jobs, and tell you about the kinds of careers that they can lead to.