Tony Lee

One thing I’ve always been passionate about is tech.

As someone who started his career at the age of 16 as a games reviewer, I’ve always looked to what the next generation brings. And at the moment, I’m finding these are possibly one of the best purchases I’ve made in a long time. The @evenrealities G2s, and the control ring that comes with them, have been my go-to EDC for the last month, and I’m finding they do everything I need them to do.

They don’t have a camera or speakers; these are a more simplistic style of glasses that give you a small HUD in front of your eyes. Monochrome green, and filled with data.

But the best bit about these glasses is what’s called the Even Hub, like an app store, so you can create your own applications for the glasses. I was able to create two beta software items - the first is my second brain server, which is currently running full-time. This holds everything I need for my writing career, and I can ask it things while walking the dog.

The second was an in-depth dictation app. In fact, it’s what I’m using right now to dictate this while I’m walking. I can dictate entire chapters of my book and it’ll save them as a file ready for me. I can write journal entries and it’ll save them into my journal file. I can even think up ideas and it’ll place them into an ideas folder, which is checked every day so that nothing I think of is forgotten. I can pause, continue, stitch together multiple versions. It’s replaced any kind of recording device.

And the best bit of all is I can do this at the tap of a button on the ring. Ask a question, get an answer. If someone contacts me or sends me an email, I can deal with it on the move. Half the time I can do it without speaking, so you wouldn’t even know I was working, which for me is exactly what I want.

Painless in every sense of the word.

So if you see me rocking these glasses, feel free to ask to have a go. I’m more than happy to show you. :)