UPDATED 07:00 EDT / NOVEMBER 12 2013

NEWS

Google Glass gets groovy with music, tattoos & more

Google is amping up its wearable tech offering with a feature that will allow wearers to search music from the web or a saved playlist.

The feature will be made available to Glass Explorers some time today, so when the device gets updated, users will see an additional “listen to” voice command among the already existing ones.

This new feature will make a great addition to Sound Search, a feature introduced a couple of months back, that identifies a song playing in the background.

“With these new features, we’re now building a great music experience on Glass, whether you’re a classical music professor, an acclaimed sound engineer and hip-hop producer, or someone who wants to listen to their favorite tunes anytime, anywhere,” Ed Sanders, the director of marketing for Google Glass, said in a statement.

And with the new Google Glass Accessory store, Explorers can purchase an earbud earphone designed for use with Google Glass, so you listen to your favorite tunes, not only in high fidelity, but also in peace.  The buds cost $85 a pair and will be available later this month.

Google is not only updating the device’s features. It recently revealed that the newest version of Glass will be made available later this year.  The price remains at $1,500, but at least now, Explorers can invite three people to become explorers as well.  Not only that, Explorers who bought their Glass prior to October 28, 2013 can swap their old Glass for the newer version.

Google Tattoo

 

Tattooed technology is not an entirely new concept, as Nokia applied for a patent that covers magnetically induced vibrating particles that can be embedded in clothing or under the skin in the form of a tattoo in 2012, and Motorola has voiced the idea of replacing passwords with tattoos.

Google has other plans for tattoos however, if its recent application for a patent that describes a ‘patch’ with a built-in microphone is anything to go by. The so-called ‘patch’ is supposed to be applied on the neck, and would be used for communications during covert operations or even as a lie detector.

“Optionally the electronic skin tattoo 200 can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user it is contemplated that a user may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual,” the company said in its application.

Based on the technologies Google is focusing on, it seems like the search giant is readying an arsenal of gadgets for spies.


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