Can we actually be serious here ? How many situations have you seen where someone is at a party constantly holding their phone in the air for hours on end. Never. And if someone was I am quite sure they would be treated equally as suspicious.

Google Glass is more akin to someone wearing a GoPro to a party the whole night. Not someone who pulls their phone out of the pocket for a minute or two.

You must not go to parties with bored people.

Equally obnoxious and unnerving.

And yet lacking the insane, uninformed backlash that Glass is getting.

Because cell phones are discrete fashionable accessories that serve as status symbols displaying varying wealth and disposable income, while Google Glass is a lopsided glowing deformity on the side of your head.

I donno. Add some options for racing strips, a hello kitty theme, some godawful gold stipple (a Dalek fashion, but popular), or whatever, and suddenly people will love it.

Remember how popular the iMac (~1999) was when they started adding colors and patterns to the outside?

Cellphone cameras had the exact same backlash when they first started showing up.