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Google announced a campaign this morning that would allow non-developers to score a pair of Google Glass by tweeting a missive about what you'd do with the specs along with the hashtag #ifihadglass. The whole thing quickly devolved into a bunch of bad Twitter jokes. But techies, it seems, are pretty desperate to get their hands on Glass.
First, we have tech writer Jason Kincaid, who made a music video about how badly he wants Glass. If he doesn't win, at least now the Internet knows what a magical singing voice he has.
Business Insider writer Nich Carlson wants to use it to make "better, experience based slideshows." NEW MEDIA JACKPOT.
https://twitter.com/nichcarlson/status/304213322637660162
There were the suckups:
https://twitter.com/ajt/status/304233891315732481
https://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/304282064851726336
The impossibly topical entries:
https://twitter.com/spencerchen/status/304260383093452800
https://twitter.com/spencerchen/status/304289259341369344
https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/304279568301301760
The geniuses:
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/304299102353649664
https://twitter.com/BarryTheArtGuy/status/304312879283322881
The humblebraggers:
https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/304308390925049856
https://twitter.com/Natkinns/status/304313587592224768
And of course, the doubters.
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/304300046164324352
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/304304671449808898
https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/304281088258359296
As for Betabeat, we made the completely rational and reasonable offer of our left kidney, but are still waiting for a response from Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google/Babies.