"At first glance, Thad Starner does not
look out of place at Google. A pioneering researcher in the field of
wearable computing, Starner is a big, charming man with unruly hair. But
everyone who meets him does a double take, because mounted over the
left lens of his eyeglasses is a small rectangle," reports
MIT's Technology Review. "It looks like a car's
side-view mirror made for a human face. The device is actually a
minuscule computer monitor aimed at Starner's eye; he sees its
display—pictures, e-mails, anything—superimposed on top of the world,
Terminator-style.Starner's heads-up display is his own system, not a prototype of
Project Glass, Google's recently announced effort to build augmented-reality goggles."
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