And The Cost of Being Cool is...
$2,000.
Where did I come over with that number? Well, Google I/O was held today and all the products announced totaled about $2,000. Assuming you got tickets to the conference, which sold out in 20 minutes compared to Apple's WWDC's long two hours to sell out, you could look as cool as Vic Gundotra (above) for only $1500! That's not even mentioning the nice glass you get with the number you are! It'll be interesting what the specifications of the device are. And for that price, it's potentially crazy powerful for glasses (Killing these mp3 Oakleys). I would love to test-drive those sweet shades anytime! Come on Google! Please?
Another device introduced today was the Nexus 7 for $200 (None of that $199.99 for me). It's a 7-inch tablet competing with the Kindle Fire with the new Android OS, Jellybean (I hope it's as good a Jelly Belly's). I'm not a big fan of the bezel and how empty that space is but that may just be a design constraint they had to deal with. Nothing too special about this product but for the price, it definitely seems reasonable to me. I'll give my take once I get to use it.
The last thing is the Nexus Q for a whopping $300. And I have to admit; I really like the use of the word "Nexus" as their product line. I don't really understand the significance of this product. To me it seems it media hub for only Android device that allows you to connect to other Android device (With outputs to speakers and displays). I'm not entirely sold on the usefulness of this device. Seems like they are restricting this to just Android devices and requiring this to communicate with television and such. I really hope this is not the case and hope in the future we will be able to just interface with TVs and such directly from our devices. This shouldn't be too difficult since more and more devices (receivers and television) contain wireless network cards and more featured software. And at $300, it's going to be a tough convincing me to purchase one as much as I love Google. If they added a wireless router and some memory into the specifications of the Nexus Q, I would consider it. But that may be asking for too much.