Would you wear a computer on your face?
'Wearable tech', or technology you can wear, is one of the newest areas in the world of computing.
Google has released a controversial product which works like a smartphone, but is worn on your face like a pair of glasses.
Finn and Neil discuss Google Glass and other wearable tech in the programme.
This week's question:
In which action movie (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger) did a character have special eyes that were like computers which gave information about the world around him?
a) Robocop
b) The Terminator
c) Total Recall
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Listen
Computer glasses
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Vocabulary
- smartphone
a phone that can be used as a small computer to do things like take photos and connect to the internet
- to combine
to join two or more things together to become one new thing
- wearable tech
technology you can wear
- specs
(slang) glasses; short for 'spectacles'
- creepy
strange and scary
- private
personal; only for one person or group
- casino
a place where people go to gamble
- cyborg
a being with both human and robot parts ('cybernetic organism')
