ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 10
around the world, which is certainly feasible when
you consider the uptake of smartphones and tablets,
and recently selfi e sticks (which in my opinion make
you look far more stupid than smartglasses do).
While you're in Japan, you might want to visit
some of the coolest, quirkiest places, or the places
that serve the best food. Instead of trying to fi nd out
where are those places using your phone or a guide
book, you could launch an app on your smartglasses
that shows you where those places are as you look
around, and o ers up a crowd-sourced star rating, so
you'd immediately be able to spot where the fi ve star
places are and head in that direction.
Perhaps one of those places is a museum, and
that museum has a dedicated smartglasses app
available to download for free. That app could act
as your tourguide, displaying information directly
beside artifacts or paintings, for example, pointing to
specifi c areas of interest.
A vase that has a big chunk missing from it and
has faded in colour could be brought back to life