Lakewood Wearable Computing Expert To Give Google Glass Presentation

Mel McGee, owner of Lakewood's imageNation Web Experts (inWebExperts.com) and Sales Whale (SalesWhale.com), a comprehensive viral web marketing application, is giving a presentation at Bizdom on August 15th at 6:00 p.m. called "Google Glass and The Future of Wearable Computing." The presentation will include a hands-on Google Glass demonstration. To attend, please sign up at http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Augmented-Reality-Human-Computer-Design-Group/.

McGee is a wearable computing expert and a web developer. She built her first wearable computer 12 years ago on the forefront of the technology. She still has her original wearable computer and will bring it to the presentation. She was featured in Howard Reingold's book Smart Mobs for her wearable computing expertise. 

She is a winner of Google's If I Had Glass contest in which entrants could send up to three Tweets to Google describing what they would do with Google Glass if they were to become Google Glass Explorers. Google then picked a limited number of entrants to be Google Glass Explorers – owners of Google Glass before Glass goes on sale to the public. McGee was featured on the front page of the Plain Dealer for her Google Glass exploration. You can read that article at http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/googles_glass_explorers_offer.html.

There are approximately 8,000 Google Glass Explorers, and McGee was among the first 2,000 to pick up her unit. (Google Glass is not shipped. It must be picked up in person at one of three Google offices in the U.S.) McGee is also a Google Mirror API developer. Access to the API gives developers the opportunity to create applications for Google Glass. McGee is developing Sales Whale to include Google Glass functionality. 

Google Glass is a wearable computer and a hands-free device. It’s a camera, display, touch pad, and microphone built into a pair of frames that display multiple high-tech functionalities in front of the user’s eyes. Users can take photos, search, translate, get directions, and take video on the fly, then quickly and easily share information on the web. Google Glass uses cell phone bluetooth technology to access the internet anytime, anywhere. To learn more about Google Glass, visit http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/.