In December 2011, information about “spy” glasses for web surfers appeared on the network, which allow “in real life” to keep in touch with the Internet. The new device is rumored to be called Instaglasses, has a seven-hour battery life and is capable of connecting to networks via Wi-Fi and 4G connections. These data do not quite correspond to reality, although they are well founded.
In the fall of 2010, a free application for mobile devices called Instagram appeared on the Internet. It allows you to apply various filters to the pictures taken with the device and distribute the resulting image on the network through its own Instagram service and popular web services. In the spring of this year, the app was acquired by the company that owns the social networking site Facebook, and its popularity has increased even more. In the same year, Google announced its promising development - Project Glass. These are glasses that project a computer image onto the retina of the eye, and this image is formed using voice commands.
Berlin-based designer Markus Gercke has combined these two components into the glasses concept, which is an intermediate link between modern Instagram technologies and the newly developed Project Glass. The concept, called Instaglasses, is supposed to combine sunglasses with a 5-megapixel digital camera, the image of which is processed by a processor using Instagram filters and projected onto the inner surface of the right glass. The necessary filter for the picture is selected by a switch on the temple of the glasses, in the left glass of which the user sees an undistorted and unprocessed image. By pressing a button placed right between the eyes, the image with the applied filter can be sent to the Internet via the social networking services available to the Instagram application.
Professionally executed pictures and concept descriptions have gained wide popularity among the networked public. Now the German designer has to devote part of his time every day to explaining that this is nothing more than a fantasy, and there are no plans to implement it.