The consumer electronics industry has gotten pretty boring lately. That’s not to say the new products that have debuted recently are boring, but we’re definitely in a period marked by iteration. Each new smartphone closely resembles the smartphone that came before it, each new tablet is a tweak and a spec bump away from its predecessor, and Windows 8 hasn’t reinvented the PC like we had hoped. The timing couldn’t have been better for
Google to shake things up with
Google Glass, the curious connected eyewear that will
launch next year. But is Glass really the next big thing or are we all just so bored that anything seems like a breath of fresh air?
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