Google Glass is the UK’s most lusted over gadget of 2014, according to the Gadget Show.
The show polled 3,900 UK gadget fans to find out what their most anticipated gadget of next year is. The poll was commissioned as part of the Gadget Show @ Christmas event.
Google’s high tech glasses racked up 24 per cent of the vote. And while Apple failed to pick up the top spot, it did sew up second, third, fourth and fifth.
There was also good news for Microsoft. While its Surface tablet may not have been a hit with gadget fans, they are looking forward to its Surface SmartWatch.
The top ten most anticipated gadgets are:
- Google Glass: 24 per cent
- Apple 5.7-inch iPhone: 16 per cent
- Apple iWatch: 15 per cent
- Apple iPhone Mini: 12 per cent
- Apple Retina iPad Mini: 8 per cent
- Microsoft Surface SmartWatch: 7 per cent
- Nvidia Tablet: 7 per cent
- Oculus Rift: 5 per cent
- Paper Tab: 3 per cent
- LG voice command phone: 3 per cent
“Google Glass is a fascinating choice,” said Gadget Show presenter Jon Bentley.
“It’s a genuinely exciting development and a refreshingly new gadget. It’ll be fascinating to discover just how alluring it is to be connected in this way and whether we learn to live with the potential intrusions into privacy such devices create, but however it works out it’s sure to be thrilling finding out.”
“In the future we’re going to be seeing technology change more aspects of our lives. We’re used to incremental boosts in computing power and connectivity and ever more competent portable devices.
"But we’ll soon be seeing more radical developments in how technology can transform our health and what we can do with our bodies – from replaceable body parts and brain implants, to the eradication of common diseases.
“Robots will start to become genuinely useful, transport will become ever more efficient, we’ll get better at harnessing and storing energy and there’ll be new ways of storing increasing amounts of data in ways that are immune to bit rot and storage calamities.”
Courtesy: T3
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