Sliced Bread

Toast - Google Glass


Listen Later

From the team behind the hit series, Sliced Bread.

Sean Farrington investigates wonder products and businesses which promised so much to consumers.... but ultimately ended up toast.

Sean is joined by the self-made millionaire and serial entrepreneur, Sam White, to conclude what went wrong. Together they look at why a product or business failed, and what we can learn from their stories today.

In this episode, Sean talks about wearable tech and Google Glass.

These futuristic looking spectacles, with a heads-up display which showed text messages and street directions and allowed users to record video footage of what was happening around them, were named in Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2012.

There was plenty of hype. Google even demonstrated them by live-streaming a sky dive using Google Glass.

But by 2015, just two years after their release, Google announced that Google Glass Explorer, the consumer version of the glasses, was going to be shelved, and the version used by businesses has since been ditched too.

Sean and Sam speak to the BBC's former technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, and the 'godfather' of wearable technology, Professor Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), to discover how Google Glass went from being the best thing since sliced bread, to toast.

Presenter: Sean Farrington

Producer: Jay Unger

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Sliced BreadBy BBC Radio 4

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

87 ratings


More shows like Sliced Bread

View all
Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,724 Listeners

More or Less by BBC Radio 4

More or Less

881 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,055 Listeners

Money Box by BBC Radio 4

Money Box

40 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,527 Listeners

The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service

The Documentary Podcast

1,793 Listeners

6 Minute English by BBC Radio

6 Minute English

1,824 Listeners

Learning English Conversations by BBC Radio

Learning English Conversations

1,083 Listeners

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 by BBC Radio 4

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

2,111 Listeners

The Infinite Monkey Cage by BBC Radio 4

The Infinite Monkey Cage

1,961 Listeners

Desert Island Discs by BBC Radio 4

Desert Island Discs

2,052 Listeners

The Food Programme by BBC Radio 4

The Food Programme

268 Listeners

BBC Inside Science by BBC Radio 4

BBC Inside Science

409 Listeners

Inside Health by BBC Radio 4

Inside Health

98 Listeners

Curious Cases by BBC Radio 4

Curious Cases

765 Listeners

The Life Scientific by BBC Radio 4

The Life Scientific

237 Listeners

All in the Mind by BBC Radio 4

All in the Mind

62 Listeners

CrowdScience by BBC World Service

CrowdScience

477 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,218 Listeners

The Missing Cryptoqueen by BBC Sounds

The Missing Cryptoqueen

1,059 Listeners

Americast by BBC News

Americast

763 Listeners

The Bomb by BBC World Service

The Bomb

1,035 Listeners

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley by BBC Radio 4

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

200 Listeners

What's Up Docs? by BBC Radio 4

What's Up Docs?

112 Listeners

Complex with Kimberley Wilson by BBC Sounds

Complex with Kimberley Wilson

4 Listeners