It has been revealed that towards the end of this year, Google is going to make available for public sale, sunglasses, similar to Terminator style sunglasses where you can see what is going on in the world around as well as use all of Googles data! In other words, while you look through these sunglasses it will identify scenes around you and give you information about those scenes as well as allow you to, one would imagine, obtain further details on those things. I don’t think it is going to work as well in a country like ours where there is not necessarily as much information available on the Internet about every single shopping centre and house, because our buildings are not 600 years old, they don’t all have some ancient history or some huge significance, but I could only imagine if you were a tourist in another country, particularly one with a long history, that it could be an incredibly resourceful tool.

Google has a lot of projects that they become involved in that are not necessarily big profit spinners or are not at this time in any event such as a car which drives itself without a driver and this is probably another such project. I cannot imagine that they believe it is going to be a big seller, but it is most probably more of a futuristic experiment, which may or may not lead to a business model later. It is clear however that we are getting closer and closer to a time when people are wearing sunglasses that have video cameras attached, that more law enforcement agents are wearing permanent video cameras, and there is going to be a lot more video footage available of any incident, in 10 years time, than there is now. From a justice point of view I think that can only be helpful and of course when people know when they are committing a crime that they are captured on video by a variety of cameras, whether that is street cameras, building cameras, people’s cell phone video cameras or sunglass cameras – that can only be good in terms of reducing crime.