According to the patent, you could then be given directions based on GPS coordinates and the buildings "seen" by the watch, while a Goggles-like implementation would be able to identify smaller items in the display.
Twice a week for eight weeks, Breitkreuz donned a pair of goggles in a doctor's office and stared into a panel of 2, 000 tiny, pulsing orange lights.
During the armed robbery in Lymington, a man in swimming goggles threatened a couple at their home before stealing their car and forcing the woman, in her 60s, to go with him.
In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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Supposedly shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, Phelps is wearing a Speedo and goggles in the bathtub with a leather Louis Vuitton duffle bag next to him on the floor.
Whereas VR goggles immerse a user in a computer-generated environment, AR uses semi-transparent goggles, which overlay computer-generated graphics onto a user's view of the physical world.
In one corner of the room, a plastic headset and goggles hung droopily from a long black cable.
Add to it that someone receiving information in a set of ski goggles is probably seeing that information while bombing down a slope.
Next time I am in Changi, in addition to my bathing suit, I will add a pair of goggles to my carry-on.
When wearing a pair of goggles fitted with small video screens, one of Dr Viirre's subjects has the impression of standing within a computer-generated panorama, which can be examined in any direction in real time.
For example, just before the start of spring training, he tweeted a photo of himself shirtless in a swimming pool, buoyed by a tube and a pair of floaties, with goggles over his eyes and a snorkel lodged in his mouth.
Google Chief Eric Schmidt demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that lets users translate written words using a camera phone.
Amazingly, just cooking the storied dish requires gloves, goggles and a gas mask.
The Kyoto, Japan, company manufactured 3-D goggles and a companion disc player that could be connected to the Family Computer, called the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U.S. The project flopped and never made its way outside Japan.
He sat them in a chair and asked them to wear virtual-reality goggles, which work by projecting a picture in front of each eye.
We were also treated to a walking tour of the floor using the SMI goggles, which were able to show on a laptop exactly where we were pointing our eyes.
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The researchers then let the patched group have a go at using the goggles with both eyes uncovered.
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One of the guys was presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on his knees, wearing goggles and using a chain saw.
Back in 1998, the Tinmith hardware consisted of a backpack, helmet and goggles which were bulky, fragile and displayed primitive images.
While Mail Goggles might be a sop for weekend lushes who like math, it's also part of a much bigger plan to improve Gmail.
Researchers outfitted rats with goggles that flashed a light in one of the animal's eyes to signal the rat to lick a spout in order to receive a drop of water.
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Better yet, you can don 3D goggles and get a real-time view of your pet, and even put on electric sensor footwear that allow you to walk a mile in your chicken's shoes.
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Mr Clare said he used props to add colour to his talks, including a pair of "beer goggles", from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority's Health Promotion department, which show how drink can affect visual impairment.
"I had a massive panic because I didn't have my goggles, but Lizzie Simmonds saved the day and got me a pair, " she told BBC Sport afterwards.
The second demo uses a Contour camera attached to the goggles and paired via Bluetooth.
To their credit, they took what they learned and embedded it into a new line of fashionable safety goggles.
British explorer Lewis Gordon Pugh has swum across some of the most challenging stretches of icy water in the world, wearing only a swimming costume, hat and goggles.
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Nine volunteers with amblyopia were asked to wear the goggles for an hour a day over the next two weeks while playing Tetris, the falling building block video game.
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To test whether aging reduces the ability of pedestrians to multitask, Neider and his colleagues created a simulated crosswalk using a self-powered treadmill, video screens depicting a busy street, and special goggles that create the illusion of virtual reality.
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