[By Sudarshana Banerjee]

How would you like Google glasses? No, we are not talking about Google Goggles, silly. These are glasses, the kind that Ray Ban makes. Only not the kind that Ray Ban makes. More the kind that Terminator wore.

The glass (as you see in the picture) consists of a display, in a frame like the kind you would find in lesser mortals, beg your pardon, glasses. This diplay acts as a camera as well. It uses natural language processing to display information, click pictures, share information, and even show maps, turn by turn directions included. If you saying ‘Siri’ to yourself at this point, you have got it right. The service is uncannily, eerily, similar to Siri. Now, Siri is great, but Google harnesses the Web several times a day  for its daily bread; if it comes to a a better algorithm, or better information-vending mechanism, Google can be expected to win hands down. So that is that.

On the other hand, users are still ambivalent about augmented reality. Some of us may like to see maps on the road, the rest of us may rather watch the road ahead. The trick for Google will have to be to be helpful, without being obtrusive. The idea of Siri-like something, on something like glasses, sound good in theory’ in practise, we will just have to watch and wait to see if Google[x] marks the sweet spot, or misses it.

Google Glasses is part of Google[x]. Google[x] is supposed to be a top secret list of Google projects that take place inside a top secret Google lab located somewhere in Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Sergey Brin is reportedly the brain behind Google[x].

Here is a video made by Google you may find interesting..

Google unveiled Project Glass in a Google+ post today, and is asking around for ideas and inputs. We are not sure whether Google intends on mass manufacturing them yet, but hey, we can say the same thing about the company’s self-driving cars. Speaking of which, a lot of us (yours truly included) actually believed Google was getting a vehicle into a Nascar race when we saw Sergey Brin behind the wheels. Which all goes on to show that there is no telling what Google can or can not do, and will or will not.