Google Glass is, ideally, the new smartphone. In the sense that it could change how people interact with the world in much the same way that smartphones did, but at the next level. A more personal, immediate level.
It's not just a smartphone stuck on your face. It's your constant link to all the information you need.
Isn't the point of using this frame of thought that one needs to look beyond? Just as, "iphones are not better phones, they are computing devices", then wouldn't it be, "Google glasses are not better smartphones, they are ____ ?"
It's not just a smartphone stuck on your face. It's your constant link to all the information you need.