When I was a kid, I watched a show called "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" and one of the characters named Cookie was kind of a "tech nerd". He happened to be my favorite character because he had a computer built into his glasses. I knew they were fake but I couldn't help but wonder if they would ever actually exist. In February 2013, Google announced that it was developing an OHMD product in hopes of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer. The product now known as Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display, running on the Android operating system. Google Glass is a very innovative way to take the Internet with you when you travel and not distract you like smartphones. Google is known for its impact on society, but Google Glass is having a major impact and receiving mixed signals. Google Glass is a product intended to provide another way to access the features of your Android smartphone, but in a less distracting way. During a discussion, Google co-founder and developer Sergey Brin explained his reasoning for developing Google Glass. He first refers to the habit of "leaning over while looking at the position of your phone" and says "we ultimately wondered if this was the ultimate future of glasses." how you want to connect to other people in your life, how you want to connect to information. Should it be just walking around looking down? » It's an interesting subject that he brings up; many people are often bent over when looking at their cell phone and even developments like Bluetooth or just headphones don't allow you to see your cell phone without being bent over. It also avoids social isolation; using glass...... middle of paper ......ton-texas/article/Google-Glass-helps-sick-kids-visit-the-Houston-5374087.Hatmaker, T. ( nd). Retrieved from http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-04/google-project-glass-augmented-reality/54010466/1 Retrieved from http://www.engadget.com/2013/ 03/11/google-glass-apps-gmail-new-york-times-path/Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/02/google-glass-review-augmented-reality? CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2Retrieved from https://www.google.com/glass/help/Retrieved from http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/controversy-grows-over-googles-glass- project/article4553860.ece Retrieved from Ackerman, E., "Google gets in your face [2013 Tech To Watch]", Spectrum, IEEE, vol.50, no.1, pp.26,29, January 2013 doi: 10.1109/MSPEC .2013.6395302URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6395302&isnumber=6395279