LG: Yeah. I tried to wear Focals for an entire CES a couple of years ago. Do you remember this, Mike?
MC: Yes, I do.
LG: Brian, you were there too.
BB: Yeah, I remember that.
LG: Yeah. I think I wore them for about three or four days. I don’t remember. I did write a review of them. But 2019 feels like 17 years ago. And they were heavy. They were heavy on my face. Like they didn’t seem that way right away because I think the company did a relatively good job of designing them to look like regular spectacles, but after awhile I was like, I’m very tired of these and the benefit I’m getting from them is minimal. Occasionally I’m seeing a text message come through. I also see the time of day. And then I had this experience that people have in Vegas without wearing smart glasses, which is, you’ve been in a casino for many, many hours and then you step out to the street, the real world, and you’re like, “Aah, blinding light.”
And I just couldn’t see the display as well once I was outside. So the times that I had to walk from casino to casino outdoors, I actually didn’t find the turn by turn directions to be at all helpful because I could barely see them. But anyway, I think they did a good job, considering they were a startup, scrappy startup out of Canada. And then they ended up getting bought by Google. So maybe at some point we’ll see Focals reemerge as a new kind of Google Glass.
MC: Great. And then we could all use it to measure our cake pans.
LG: That’s right.
BB: I also, I think I do remember sharing a cab with Lauren at CES that year and having her suddenly go and stare off into the distance for a minute as she got an incoming text.
LG: That’s right. There was something going on with like, you were telling me something and I was like, “Oh, this thing is happening at the Golden Globes,” or something like that. It was ridiculous. And you were like, “What?”
BB: Although I did appreciate the update. I am a big Golden Globes fan.
LG: I think it was …….