How Google is getting human with Google Glass

Action and human reaction all in one.

(Credit: Google/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

I've always felt a little skeptical about Google.

To be honest, not just about Google.

But in the case of the men from Mountain View, there's always been something so touchingly gauche about the way they've gone about their business.

None of this was assuaged by the recent sight of Google's Sergey Brin sitting on New York's subway wearing his Google glasses and looking like, well, a nerd on the subway wearing silly glasses.

I feared, therefore, for the world's nerve ends when I heard that Google had launched a site to promote those very glasses.

These were the ones that, I imagined, would create insurance company claims and lawsuits aplenty as people crashed into each other on the street, while being blindly focused on getting their glasses to Google "local restaurants."

Yet Google's new site is bathed in a subtle delight.

Not only is there a certain sophistication of style, it has a remarkably un-Googlie sense of priorities.

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