Urban Cycling as Seen Through Google Glass

Urban Cycling as Seen Through Google Glass
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Authored by: Florian Lorenz

Smart glasses like Google Glass are the latest gizmo available on the tech market: what if we combined the bicycle-specific sense of place and space with them?

Becoming smarter through glasses?

If you are old enough: did you think in 1995 that 20 years later you would be equipped with mobile advanced computing and communication devices allowing you to instantly access all the information of the planet and to talk with almost everybody around the globe? Moreover, could you imagine being able to do all of this while riding a bicycle?

This is the perspective one may take on smartglasses as new technology. Technological innovation often comes unexpected and is leading quite often to unexpected cultural adaptation and further innovation. Our cities are the places where such innovation and adaptation is taking shape, in some cases even from the back of a bicycle. It would be a pity not to use the potentials of smartglasses in a creative way and to think about how this technology can be used for building sustainable cities.

In this sense: Let’s look clearly into the future.