Google Glass soon to be in fashion with advisers?

Advisers usually not caught dead in glasses might well be seen sporting this high-tech set of lenses
MAY 17, 2013
I'm not sure how many financial advisers applied to test drive Google Glass. One of my Google + connections let out an online whoop last week when he was selected but then was crestfallen to learn he had to fly cross-country on his own dime to pick them up. No doubt quite a few of the nationally or internationally selected did just that, fly to pick up their glasses. As irritatingly cliché as wearable technology has become (well the idea of it and to me anyway), it appears to be an unstoppable trend. But one that is and will continue going through growing pains. It has already evolved significantly. For example, I still have this nifty, attractive looking black vest in my closet at home from a vendor selling it as the carry-all for your mobile tech. Complete with two dozen pockets I received to test while I was still at PC Magazine circa 2004 (Since it was clothing it was one of the rare things the providing company did not want returned). Alas it became obsolete fairly quickly as sheek tech-wear. The problem was that instead of carrying around a dozen different devices (come on, we all thought we would back then) they have simply all ended up inside our smart phone. And now between Google Glass and a really reliable Bluetooth stack (or for everything you were ever kinda curious about related to Bluetooth but not enough to look up yourself) appearing in many devices these days I can actually envision the idea of wearable personal area networking coming to fruition. This ramble was inspired by Gizmodo's excellent set of infographics published today on “How Google Glass Works”. Check it out. And imagine as an adviser maybe carrying or connecting reliably to a client presentation and projecting it on a wall through a Bluetooth connection to a projector at a client office using nothing more than a flutter of your eyelashes or movement of your retina. And if you want to head to Google's own pages, including the inspiring video footage filmed using them head over to their pages: Google Glass Related stories: The pluses and minuses of Google+ Erado lands another big independent broker-dealer; Control of Google+ still a big question mark; Advisor Group went a different route

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