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Can Google Glass Help Those with Autism?

Brain Power, a Cambridge start-up, is attempting to use Google Glass to help those on the autism spectrum who may have difficulty learning and interacting, including social interactions, speech delays, learning to control certain behaviors, and help with recognizing and forming abstract groupings.

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Pamela Rentz
Google Has Big Plans for the Health Care Industry

Google's foray into research is not new, and one of the areas that Google has invested in is life sciences research. During the past year, Google has been in the news for the health care technological advances that it’s working on, such as the detection of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

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Anuj Magazine
Georgia Tech Researchers Use Google Glass to Help Hearing-Impaired

What if there were a way that a hard-of-hearing person wearing Google Glass could get real-time closed captioning to assist with everyday conversations? Researchers at Georgia Tech have created speech-to-text software for Google Glass that uses a smartphone to capture a conversation.

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Pamela Rentz
Google Glass Now Accepting Your Vision Prescription

With a public launch of Google Glass planned for later in the year, its widespread adoption may have gotten a step closer. Google has announced the availability of frames in more fashionable styles, optional attachments for detachable sunglasses, and the much-requested prescription lenses.

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Pamela Rentz
Google Introduces Smart Contact Lens That Reads Glucose Levels

Google announced that it is in the process of developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels through tears. This innovation has the potential to help more than just diabetics. These lenses could one day measure other biometric data, and they could even become the next Google Glass.

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Beth Romanik
Will Google Glass Be a Success with Consumers?

Ever since Google announced its foray into wearable computing with Google Glass, it has been getting a great deal of attention in technology circles. According to some reports, Glass is predicted to be “the next iPhone.” Will Glass live up to these high expectations with consumers?

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Anuj Magazine
Google Says No to Facial Recognition on Google Glass

Google will not be allowing facial recognition on Google Glass any time soon, but that doesn't mean the company is forever ruling out the possibility. Will this be enough to alleviate the privacy concerns of people worried that Google Glass will lead to an Orwellian future?

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Jonathan Vanian
I Can See You Now: Google Glass Preview

Google recently launched the new Google Glass website and unveiled more details about what the wearable headset's user can do. Pamela Rentz highlights what the unsurprisingly simple accessory can do and what the reaction to Google Glass has been so far.

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Pamela Rentz