Google files patent for eyewear that SHOOTS LASERS

Google has filed a patent for mounting twin lasers on the sides of a combine of glasses to show a keyboard on a user's body elements and use a camera to trace a hand's gestures for control.

"A pattern for a virtual data input device may be projected onto a 'display hand' of a user, and also the camera is also able to discover when the user uses associate opposite hand to pick things of the virtual data input device," the filing reads.

"In another example, the camera could discover when the show hand is moving and interpret show hand movements as inputs to the virtual data input device, and/or adjust the projection onto the moving show hand."

The patent filing shows the lasers sticking out a numeric keyboard onto the palm of the hand, or highlighting operate buttons on the forearm. By watching the relevant body-part, someone carrying the specs – which look terribly just like the Google Glass prototypes – might realize how to computer file on the far side speech recognition and use gesture controls on the eyewear's lenses.

Laser projection of keyboards may be a decade-old plan, but this may well be the way to solve a basic downside with Google's hardware: reliable input. As British pranksters (among many) have discovered, Glass has significant problems in terms of user control.

Google management is powerfully behind creating the Glass project a success, and Sergey Brin is seldom seen at public events without a collection on. but he has non-public security; given the $1,500 price tag on the developer epitome and also the North American nation leaning for street crime, the hardware can be a assault magnet.

What isn't coated in the patent filing is that the issue of screen burn. As anyone with a plasma TV can tell you, a station's logo can permanently mark a locality of the screen, but the lasers concerned ar certainly low-power enough to not cause problems.

Nevertheless it's in fascinating plan. The patent has nonetheless to be approved, but if Google can come up with a working epitome the results can be terribly fascinating indeed