I was a Google Glass explorer, sort of. I have a pair of Google Glass. But being on the bleeding, cutting edge is full of pitfalls, challenges, and sometimes triumphs. In five minutes, I will walk through my experience on the edge and how it has changed me for better and worse. There are lessons about life wrapped up in early adoption ... and thus that is what we'll explore.

1. The Risks and Dangers of Early
Technology Adoption
Matt Pierce | TechSmith Corporation | @piercemr

2. My Wife Laughed at Me
Not my wife
My wife would
not allow for her
picture to be
used for this
presentation.

3. Tempting to wear at Conferences
Cool it takes
pictures… of me,
when others are
wearing it.

4. When I wanted to be noticed
How I thought I
might look… but
I felt like…

5. I am from the mid-west
I don’t not
necessarily
endorse all the
views of this
map. However,
generally, the
mid-west
seemed about
right.

6. I lived in Canada. So Sorry. Eh. A lot.

7. Wear them biking.

8. Lack of constant Internet

9. Work Wifi wouldn’t work

10. Apple iPhone user.

11. People started to get beat-up

12. My kids wanted to play
If they broke… yikes

13. What part of my life would you like to
see?
She was okay for the left pic, I
snuck in the right one.

14. Who texts or calls me?
Ummm…. No one.

15. Not much personal
email
Boring, boring, boring.

16. I already wear glasses

17. I don’t like wearing glasses

18. Don’t want to be seen as the creeper
with the recording glasses

19. I have been called many names
Glasshole The only font
appropriate for
a word like this
is Comic San MS

20. Wearables will
probably change every,
just not yet for me.