glasshole

plural glassholes · alternative glass-hole · alternative Glass-hole · alternative Glasshole

1. derogatoryslangA person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.First known use 2013

   2013, Molly Klinefelter, Don’t Be a Google Glasshole: 10 Etiquette Tips, Laptop Magazine Put another way, there could be a lot of “Glassholes” out there.

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   No one likes a Glasshole because they are usually unpredictable in their actions.

   2014, Vamien McKalin, Hate Glassholes? Now you can jam their Wi-Fi connection and expose them, TechTimes

   Do “explore the world around you,” Google exhorts its users; on the other hand, don't “be creepy or rude (aka a 'Glasshole').” That Google recognizes the pejorative slang term “Glasshole” in its own documentation is telling, for it shows that […]

   2015, Tom Bruno, Wearable Technology: Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 97

   […] and create a technology you wear like glasses—without looking like a glasshole […]

   2015, Rob Enderle, How the Windows Phone Could Rise Up and Dominate, Tech News World

   Google Glass became a status symbol too – of a rather different sort. The company’s “glassholes” probably put the field back by half a decade, as a status symbol inside tech became a red flag to passersby outside it.

   2023 June 6, Alex Hern, “TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN