Talking about the way people walk around hunched over their smartphones, he
said: “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? It’s kind
of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do with your body?”
He admitted that he was as much a victim of this, adding, according to the TED
blog: “I have a nervous tic. The cell phone is a nervous habit — If I
smoked, I’d probably smoke instead, It’d look cooler. But I whip this out
and look as if I have something important to do. It really opened my eyes to
how much of my life I spent secluding myself away in email.”
His comments drew immediate derision from bloggers, especially in light of how
much Google has invested in its Android mobile phone operating system.
John Gruber wrote on the tech blog daringfireball.net:
“We’re taking advice on cool from this guy? Seriously?” He added:“Strapping
a computer display to your face is not the answer.”
Last month Mr Brin was spotted testing out his Google
Glass spectacles on the New York subway.
They are due to go on sale later this year. The
Guardian reported that a pair had been offerend for sale on eBay for
$16,000. It is not known whether they were genuine.
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