Thursday, May 2, 2013

Google Glass app lets you take photos with a wink

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A Google Glass developer has created an app that allows you to take a photo using just your eye. The Winky app, currently available for compiling through GitHub, lets you power up Glass from standby mode and snap a quick photo. Mike DiGiovanni, who developed the app alone, says having voiceless control over Glass "really changes things." Although it doesn't take a huge amount of effort to ask Glass to take a photo (or to press the side-mounted button), DiGiovanni notes that doing so is "a context switch that takes you out of the moment."


DiGiovanni also released a brief video showing the gesture. It appears that a slow, deliberate wink is required to activate Glass, presumably to avoid accidentally triggering a photo when blinking. The...


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