Google Glass has captured the hearts of the tech elite, with its promise of the gadget of the future. Evoking sci-fi epics such as Minority Report, Google's vision of a fully-wireless, fully-immersive, tech-enabled existence has proven irresistible to those who have been allowed access. By Google's own account, the glasses seem to offer super powers.
Sightings of the the wealthy, well-connected (and usually white) men who have early access to Google Glass are increasing but are this group the ideal early-adopter sample for wearable technology? Early reports are suggesting that these first users are killing Glass's image.
Is the potential of the technology so transformative that it will transcend such petty considerations? There's only one way to find out. The Guardian's Amanda Holpuch travelled to the global capital of hipsterdom – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – to ask the arbiters of cool.
Tell us, hipsters, will Google Glass will be a success or will it go the way of the Segway?
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