Google Glass, a wearable computer that hasn’t even come out on the market yet, is already banned in one Seattle dive bar.
According to a post on the Facebook page of The 5 Point, “[f]or the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators.”
The bar’s owner says:
[p]art of this is a joke, to be funny on Facebook, and get reaction. But part of it’s serious, because we don’t let people film other people or take photos unwanted of people in the bar, because it is kind of a private place that people go.
Of course, there are already spy-glasses on the market with little cameras in the middle, and few can tell the difference between those and actual glasses.
Google even responded, saying, “[it] is still very early days for Glass, and we expect that as with other new technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time”.
Let’s be honest though: this was huuuuuuuuge publicity for this bar in Seattle that sounds like it would’ve just been an anonymous hole-in-the-wall otherwise.
