Intel Processor Could Be In Next-Gen Google Glass 73
An anonymous reader points out this story that Intel could be in charge of creating the chips for the new Google Glass. Intel is expected to supply the chips for a new version of Google's Glass device in 2015, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources. The Intel processor will replace one from Texas Instruments, which is used in the current version of Glass, which is a device that allows people to view the Internet or take pictures while wearing it on their heads. Intel hasn't commented yet. The Wall Street Journal said that Intel plans to promote Glass to hospital networks and manufacturers. Google watched the web-connected eyewear in 2012, but it carried a hefty price and was regarded as something that only nerds would wear.
Good job Intel (Score:4, Funny)
You're now getting your hardware in cutting edge technology people are already tired of.
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People got bored of wearing the damn things everywhere. Also: those stories tended to be overblown, and were actively hunted for because we weren't all tired of it already.
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And with Intel CPUs it'll get a whopping 10 minutes of battery life.
Good job Intel (Score:1)
Which people are those? Oh, you mean yourself? Just because you're a closed-minded technophobe doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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Problem with Google Glass is that it isn't the technology, it is the fact that people are on CCTV most everywhere and have to deal with it as a course of doing business. However, someone coming into a bar recording everything (both visually and via audio) that should be private, be it someone's intimate conversation, some businessmen talking about next quarter, or just random chitchat... being constantly recorded in a place where privacy is expected steps over a line, and it is no wonder why there is seri
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Lawsuits, vandalism, and outright theft are too prevalent for any business owner not to take it seriously, and get everything recorded they can for later evidence, if needed. Heck several of the bars I go to, have cameras setup all over that stream constantly to the internet.
Understand this. If you are in public... YOU ARE IN PUBLIC. You have no reasonable expectation of
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The difference between the local bar and the local glasshole is simple: the local bar is running cameras for safety and security purposes. Who knows what the local glasshole is using it for.
Sure, the cameras that are constantly filming us for safety and security could potentially be misused for nefarious or creepy purposes. But, their intent is not that and if a bad actor gets caught using them in the wrong ways, the law is catching up and punishing them.
A glasshole, otoh, could easily be using the camera f
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The difference between the local bar and the local glasshole is simple: the local bar is running cameras for safety and security purposes. Who knows what the local glasshole is using it for.
They're also not uploading it to the NSA. Sorry, Google.
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However, someone coming into a bar recording everything (both visually and via audio) that should be private [...] being constantly recorded in a place where privacy is expected
I don't know what kind of bars you have where you live, but around here bars are public places. In fact, they're usually called "pubs" (short for "public house", apparently). There's no more expectation of privacy at the bar than in a park or other public place.
With Google Glass, at least you see them recording; the cellphone that's on "record" two tables over is just lost in the clutter...
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Had access to Glass for an afternoon... (Score:1)
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So if you don't think it wasn't a problem.... then it WAS a problem.
Oh, and battery life (or lack thereof) in Google Glass is another big issue.
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battery life was too long, intel will fix that
Re:Had access to Glass for an afternoon... (Score:4, Informative)
The raw performance of the OMAP4 wasn't the issue, BUT the fact that it's an EOL architecture no longer supported by TI is showing in the current software quality of Glass. Ever since Google deployed KitKat to Glass (which has not been deployed in production to ANY other OMAP4 device), Glass has been unreliable and suffered from wildly inconsistent battery life. XE19.1 was a big improvement, but it was still a significant backwards step from pre-KitKat Glass. Then Google went and fucked it up again with XE21 - Twice in one week I had Glass run out of battery in only 8 hours with effectively zero usage other than sitting on my head idle. (1-2 notifications/hour, no Navigation, etc.)
Even before KitKat, the OMAP4 was a woefully inefficient CPU due to its age. A Snapdragon 400 with half the cores disabled would provide a MUCH better experience - more efficient/capable GPU, more efficient video encoding/decoding engine (no burning your head when recording), more efficient CPU.
I haven't worn Glass in nearly two months now. It's in desperate need of a hardware refresh to improve power management and stability, but Intel is the LAST thing Glass needs. Intel's mobile SoCs are worse than even Cortex-A15 in terms of power efficiency, which is why you see a number of Intel-based tablets and settop boxes, but next to no Intel-based phones (there are about as many Intel-based phones as Exynos5-based phones, another SoC that's woefully unsuitable to phones due to power consumption.)
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Intel's mobile SoCs are worse than even Cortex-A15 in terms of power efficiency, which is why you see a number of Intel-based tablets and settop boxes, but next to no Intel-based phones
I thought the main reason was that many apps use native code and that code is all ARM, pushing Android-x86 tablets out there has been to get developers to make native binaries for Intel while running an ugly binary translation. The only phones they've been able to sell is feature phones that don't expect apps from the play store to work, where I understand they've been decent. Not particularly great, not particularly bad either. If Google Glass ends up running x86, developers will need to make native binari
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That doesn't help either, but even for non-native stuff, the Haswells are about on par with Cortex-A15s (if Chromebooks are any indication) - and the Cortex-A15s are pretty much non-starters in the "small device" category, which is why Qualcomm's Krait architecture has become so dominant even in devices that are wifi-only. (See Nexus 7 2013 version)
Dual Cortex-A7s seem to be the "go-to" for wearables nowadays, providing similar performance (at greatly reduced power consumption) compared to the dual Cortex-
Re:google glass? (Score:4, Funny)
Cities are going to be built around this.
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It was a joke, bro. It was mocking what the Segway people said when that was released.
Nice, but... (Score:1)
...certainly their chips will also have some real world uses as well? It's not like Google spy hardware has much of a future after all.
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I picked up a couple of $45 specials over the weekend (not for use as actual tablets, obviously; but if you need a small monitor to serv
Battery life (Score:5, Funny)
Because already they had too much.
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It just competes with ARMs. The Intel Quark is an x86.
Not in the hospital I work at. (Score:1)
We have already evaluated these at my hospital. Though I'm not in IT (I'm a clinical pharmacist), I was on the committee. Basically, unless fully firewalled against the Internet, as in fully offline, we can't allow them in any room with a patient.
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Re:Not in the hospital I work at. (Score:5, Interesting)
I set a local private clinic up with its own offline, airgapped copy of the BMJ among other journals and encyclopedias, complete with a dedicated email account set up to receive xml feeds for uploading to flash and dropping onto the clinic server. They were well happy, they can do a full text search for practically anything connected with medicine without going online.
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That actually sounds pretty reasonable. Presumably a doctor isn't looking for medical advice on Slashdot or Quora or whatever, so just providing them the high-quality sources with an airgap provides one less means for something stupid to happen. In general I cringe whenever stuff in a remotely sensitive setting is routinely on the internet, because in some percentage of those cases you're going to end up with a bunch of malware-infested tablets uploading private data that had no business being connected to
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that was the brief, they actually thought it wasn't possible to get an up-to-date (as in, less than 24h old) medical reference on an airgapped LAN. The one thing they absolutely didn't want, for reasons of personal data security more than general malware issues (the tablets all run WinME, which was a fixed quantity so I decided to install the server with xp), was an internet connection. Took me just a week to gather the required journals and set up the updates.
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I do similar systems for genomics. Despite all the hype around cloud services in our space, we're finding more interest in local copies of the standard databases with links out to the canonical sources as needed. The local copies keep hospital IT happy and ensure access if the network is wonky.
And, it turns out that most clinicians are comfortable sorting through database records on their own and don't like magic algorithms attempting to do it for them. Access to the basic data is what they want.
-Chris
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Lol, WinME tablets connecting to an XP server(presumably over WiFi) and they're concerned about the server being connected to the WAN? I'll be honest, when I get bored and do a security assessment at of my Dentist's office: I'm way more interested in the VNC icon in their taskbar than I am in doing a "what is my ip" search and frantically scribbling down the ip address on the back of a tongue depressor.
From a penetration testing perspective: the wifi network/LAN is a way bigger risk IMHO. The fact that none
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no wireless, and the patient records are on a bespoke NHS system which I wasn't about to fuck with (I ain't touching that trainwreck, which they understood - unsurprisingly since they specified the airgap). If I'd had carte blanche on architecture it'd've been BSD all the way from the back to the front.
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I did something slightly different with another client (although it wasn't medical, so HIPAA regs didn't apply). The machines on the intranet were on a subnet that was not Internet connected (with a small appliance ensuring that traffic couldn't go into that segment) , but there was a machine that allowed restricted access to a Citrix server, and that server allowed access via a Web browser to the Internet. Agreed it is less secure than a complete air-gap, but with physical ASA firewalls in place, someone
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Did you set up a local cached copy of Google Maps too? The last time I was at my doctor's office, the nurse pulled up traffic information to make sure there was adequate travel time between the appointments she was setting up for that same day. Another time was when my mother didn't remember the exact doctor's name she had seen at another hospital, but a quick Google search by the nurse cleared up that question in a few seconds. A third time was when my mom brought medication she had been using in France wi
Re: Not in the hospital I work at. (Score:2)
It would be fairly straightforward for your IT folks to set up an SSID that doesn't have Internet access and restrict the Glass to that SSID. If they have clinical value.
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This has nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with the camera recording patients (both audio and video) without their consent.
I made some videos with my cell phone this summer, and the staff were okay with it as long as NO other patient was in the scene. I agree with them - only jerks would video patients in a hospital, even casually, without their knowledge and consent.
Unless it's to capture a crime being committed, recording people without their consent is a really dick move.
Drop resistance? (Score:5, Funny)
How does Google Glass compare to Gorilla Glass or sapphire? How far can I drop Google Glass before it shatters?
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How does Google Glass compare to Gorilla Glass or sapphire? How far can I drop Google Glass before it shatters?
The real question is how long can you wear it before someone shatters it for you ...
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that's what TFS was missing, the fact that the biggest criticism of Glass isn't its nerd factor, it's the whole privacy thing. Surely, orders of magnitude more important than how much of dick you look while wearing it?
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My fellow Americans, ask not how you can shatter your Google Glass, ask how your Google Glass can be shattered for you.
- John F. Kennedy (assassinated by Google Time Agents for sales interference)
what are they thinking? (Score:5, Funny)
1. Mobile processors. What to do for the 4th gen Haswell ones...umm...let's make the Pentium 1/2 the speed of the 3rd gen one and still throw it in laptops. Yay! Let's do that! People freaking love double the battery life when it takes twice as long to do everything. I wonder why half the U-series underclocked 3rd gen chips are all on clearance right now...hmmm...
2. Let's take the atom that runs x86 and just emulate ARM and throw it in some tablets like the ASUS MeMO Pad. That'll be efficient and not glitchy at all. Yes, best meeting ever!
3. Next, let's make chips for a controversial product that nobody wants.
I guess this is what happens when AMD says they don't want to compete in mobile processors. Oh well, at least Intel is running out of feet to shoot themselves in.
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People freaking love double the battery life when it takes twice as long to do everything. I wonder why half the U-series underclocked 3rd gen chips are all on clearance right now...hmmm...
Why would a slower CPU in my laptop 'take twice as long to do everything' when the current CPU is running at 800MHz 99% of the time?
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x86? (Score:2)
The article takes some real information (Intel to be used in next gen Google Glass) and extrapolates it into "x86 to be used in next get Google Glass". But this seems to be a wild guess.
Remember Intel makes ARM chips also.
Terrible link (Score:2)
"regarded as something that only nerds would wear" (Score:2)