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Photo: A Haunting Encounter With Google Glass On The L Train
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Ben Yakas
Published May 11, 2013
Modified May 12, 2013
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They're in our bars, they're at our Justin Timberlake corporate events, and they rock out to Beats by Dre. Google Glass-enhanced cyborgs seem to be popping up all around NYC these days—and since they have yet to master their telekinetic abilities, they still rely on the subway like the rest of us. One reader had a particularly haunting encounter with one such cyborg early Saturday morning: "At 3 a.m. this morning... Works at Google X but couldn't tell us what she does," the tipster said. "She spoke to the glasses and took pictures by blinking. Crazy." Chills.
The tipster didn't quite realize what they were at first, probably because it's still somewhat shocking to come across a living breathing cyborg in the year 2013: "It was sort of discrete...At first glance I thought she was rocking a thin headband, but I was also sort of tipsy." Once she adjusted her dimensionally limited eyes, she did think they looked cool, but at least one of her friends thought "the only reason the glasses worked was that she was a cute girl, and that any guy wearing them would have looked like a douche." And then there was the demonstration: "She definitely looked cross eyed and silly when she was communicating with it."
This wasn't the first time we've seen one of these cyberunicorns on the L Train—Google employee David Flinner was spotted last month chatting up with some Google Norms. Another reader sent in the below photo of him sporting the eyewear—you don't have to be an attention-sucking facehugger to be able to tell that his spirit is being completely snuffed out as he melds with his "interactive second skin."
These are far from the only haunting Google Glass interactions we've come across in recent weeks. Below, watch as a man in Glass records a Time Square artist drawing his Google Glass-enhanced caricature, and feel your soul drip into the sewer.
Oh, but most New Yorkers are actually fine with it, right? That's what you might be led to believe by the video below. But of course that's just because these people are lying through the skin of their precious still 100% human flesh to the cyborgunicorns.
Have you had a haunting encounter with Google Glass? Send us your story, and we will pray for you.
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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