The New York City Police Department is testing Google Glass to see if wearable computers could be useful in law enforcement
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The New York City Police Department is testing Google Glass to see if wearable
computers could be useful in law enforcement.
Glass has a built-in camera that can record video and could potentially be
useful in gathering evidence. It is also capable of running apps such as
NameTag, which entered beta testing this week, that can photograph a person
and identify them by scouring social networks for a match. If the device was
widely adopted by police it could be set up with an app that allowed
officers to search databases of known offenders and outstanding warrants in
a similar way.
A ranking New York City law enforcement official told VentureBeat:
“We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them
out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol
purposes. We’re looking at them, you know, seeing how they work.”
A spokesman for Google told VentureBeat that the company was not working with
the police in an official test, so the NYPD has seemingly just registered
itself on the beta testing program for the product.
In order to get the device a customer has to sign up to the Glass Explorer
program and pay $1,500. Newly released frames also support
prescription lenses but cost an additional $225 plus the optician’s
charge to make and fit lenses.
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