This only barely made my Mad Tech Ideas list because it doesn't look like Google is going to do it. For right now Google Glass looks to be heading in the direction of a Smartwatch. Effectively, Google Glass is a bluetooth add-on to your smartphone. Sure it has a full Android OS, local storage, a screen, a camera and a battery with sufficient life to last the whole day, but that doesn't mean it's a phone, right? It's like saying that because electric cars don't go VROOM when you hit the accelerator means they will never be "real" cars.
Ok, ok, so it would be difficult to interact with a non-touch screen with only one button. But I seem to recall that Google supports voice interfacing too and it would seem to make sense that maybe 95% of the interaction could be via voice. But I'm also sure that if Google Glass were a stand-alone device that it could also have accessories in much the same way that it is currently an accessory to a smartphone.
However, seeing that most Android-based smartphones have access to a keyboard interaction known as "swiping", it may be safe to say that using one's eye to swipe might be a possibility (Sw-eye-ping?) If sw-eye-ping is possible, then the only thing they'd need to perfect is tapping, which at least for now could still be done via the temple tapping that is currently a part of Google Glass.
I think we can all see that although this might sound like fantasy, it's no less reasonable that the idea that you could wear your smartphone on your head, 18 months ago. Google Glass exists, it might not be publicly available yet, but it will be soon and then shortly after that, the solo model... I hope... will become available.
Here's looking at you Google. This Mad Tech Idea is free, please... please, please, please consider it.
"I concede that every sun must set, and yet the son of the father must also rise"
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