Museum Trips #throughglass – American Museum of Natural History (@amnh)

Following up on our trip to the Met earlier this week, yesterday we took the boys to hang out with friends at the American Museum of Natural History. It’s been my favorite museum since I was their ages, and love it as much as I ever did. Sure enough, the trip didn’t disappoint… it never does.

When I first got the Glass invitation, one of the first things I thought of was how cool it would be if Will got to run (er, walk cautiously and carefully, that is) through the hall of dinosaurs recording everything #throughglass. (The other was to capture a kids-eye-view of unwrapping Christmas presents, but that didn’t work out. At all.) Quickly, though, the thought of putting such expensive eyewear on his face made me nervous (since, like many five-year-olds, he tends to inexplicably fall more often than he should). So Henry was my next target partner-in-crime, but he refuses to put the things on, ridiculing me whenever I do. (He also yells “OK, Glass, take a picture!” whenever I wear them, trying to get them to take pictures that I didn’t intend.

So I’m finding some problems with Glass because they’re just not socially-acceptable to wear in public, and for them to gain traction in the mainstream – in more than just a “hey, check this out” kind of way – they need to look better, work more easily, hold a charge more consistently, etc. One of the things that Glass does have going for it is that, if you can get the one person willing to put aside social graces, you can have them screenshare their way through some pretty fantastic places, or even send several of them out (when they get less expensive, of course) and keep track of live feeds from different groups.

But back to the museum – and what a museum trip it was. A great exhibit on The Power of Poison, the Hall of Ocean Life, the Discovery Room, the Hall of Dinosaurs, all with good friends and funny kids. Couldn’t ask for a better Saturday afternoon.

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BONUS: Glass, when powered on and plugged in to power, automatically backs up media to a private space on Google+, and sometimes picks a photo or two to make “Auto Awesome.” Here’s what happened to one of my photos (but you can’t see the animated snow falling on it like it does in G+):
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