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i love wearables. they are my absolute favorite kind of technology, because when i build or hack a wearable, it's something that lives with me, that becomes uniquely molded to me and my life while not inhibiting me in any way.
my number one favorite piece of technology of all time was google glass: it's the perfect wearable to me. always a glance away, never obscuring anything, never blocking me from another person. a lot of wearable displays try doing too much; too big of a screen, too many screens, too discrete, too immediate.
glass was different. the display sits just above your eye, not in front of it, so it's never blocking anything, but always a twitch away. it means that it's obvious when i'm using it, and obvious when i'm talking to you. it can tell when i'm looking at it with a simple reflectivity sensor.
glass never chimed in. unless you glanced up and swiped to the side, it would not appear. there were no "unread message" icons, no alerts, nothing. it queued up information for if you wanted it, just a touch away, but never fed it to you.
glass never tried to be too much; it's a smartwatch for your eyes, information at a glance but never without it. it's my endgame of natural human augmentation before we get into stuff like the epson moverio that are mostly socially unacceptable.
i'll never forgive google for killing it, but i'll always appreciate them doing so much for it while it existed.