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In a move that could signal a looming consumer-market push for Glass, Google has hired former Gap and Calvin Klein executive Ivy Ross to lead its augmented-reality project. Last serving as CMO of Art.com, Ross brings to the project an extensive résumé from the fashion and design worlds. The Harvard-educated exec has held …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Techies and Everyone Else?

    Seems more like techies and hipsters. Hipster bars seem to be the ones banning glass.

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    1. Mike Flex
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      Re: Techies and Everyone Else?

      "Hipster bars seem to be the ones banning glass."

      "Glass" buyers are hardly going to be found in any other type of bar, are they?

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  3. Steve Knox
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    "the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses,"

    Such as,

    Can Google singlehandedly make techies look as unattractive as they did in the eighties?

    Will people really buy something that has the potential to record everything you see from a company which profits from knowing you more intimately than you know yourself?

    and, of course,

    Just how much over the odds will extreme technophiles pay for a new massively-overhyped gadget, anyway?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    I really don't care

    .. if it's redesigned by style gurus and made the fashion accessory of the year, you still look like an idiot wearing it, and an unwelcome one at that.

    Wasn't there a saying involving monkeys and golden rings?

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  5. Selden

    UC Irvine School of Medicine seems like the sort of application for which Google Glass actually makes sense. I remain skeptical of the devices because of the social engineering issues, but who knows....

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