Look Like an Android with Android Glasses

Come at me bro.

Glasses, disappointingly, do no fire force beams

The Bits Blog at the New York Times has written a piece about Google developing glasses,called Project Glass, that will stream information in front of your eyes.  The glasses will be Android based with a 3G or 4G data connection.  They will also contain sensors, GPS, and a camera.  To navigate the device the user tilts their head to scroll and click (And you thought people wearing Bluetooths in their ears talking to themselves looked like freaks). Supposedly the glasses will be released at the end of the year. Here is a quote from the Bits Blog:
The project is currently being built in the Google X offices, a secretive laboratory near Google’s main campus that is charged with working on robots, space elevators and dozens of other futuristic projects.
A SPACE ELEVATOR!  Holy ****!  Who gives a flip about those stupid glasses.

Source Bits Blog Project Glass

Whither QR Code?

I go to museums on a regular basis and I am a very curious hominid.  However although I have seen plenty of QR codes incorporated into exhibits and I have an Android phone, I have only used one once (in a museum setting) and I can't remember what happened. (But in my defense I am usually running after a five year old)  So unfortunately I can't add much to this discussion.  But this is where my surrogate comes in, Hugh Wallace the head of digital media at the National Museum of Scotland, is not impressed. and feels that no digital media has been so "badly implemented and inconsistently applied" as the QR code in a museum exhibit.  So he has made it his job to improve the QR experience by focusing on "content and context" for the National Museum of Scotland's 26 Treasures Project which he believes will  enhance the physical museum experience.  Read more about how he has accomplished this over at The Feast Bowl.