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104. GOOGLE GLASS
Google Glass is a type of wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display with many features.
♤ It can record videos and take pictures which can be emailed or shared on social networking websites.
♤ It can show text messages and allows the user to reply them via voice commands.
♤ It can find things on internet just via voice command and can also show Google maps.
♤ It can keep track of daily habits of users and suggest accordingly. For example it will give you information about traffic updates and may update you if you need to change normal route.
♤ It can also translate sentences in many languages.
♤ Recently, German scientists have developed an app for Google Glass to measure human emotions by analyzing their facial expressions. It can also tell a person's age and detect gender.
o The integrated CPU in glass does these calculations in real time. This software will also help people suffering from communicative disabilities like autism. With the help of glasses useful missing information can be accessed by these people.
o A visually impaired person can also be benefited from this app as can provide audio feedback for missing information.