Abstract :
The hot topic of conversation around the water cooler at the London base of NaDiR is "wearable technology". Opinion is polarised over the viability of Google\´s recentlyrevealed spectacle-style Web browser, Google Glass. Some say it is an exciting and inevitable development, which can only grow in popularity. Others say it is cumbersome, geekish and doomed to failure. This sharp division between optimism and pessimism among staff has been aptly summed up by one office wit as: \´Google Glass half-full; Google Glass half-empty.\´