"I get a lot of stares," says OSU student and ASCTech employee Brandon Smith. "You look like a cyborg with the way the display covers your eye. And I'm uncomfortable talking to it in public."

He's describing his new pair of Google Glass, which he's had for about 2 weeks. Smith loves being an early adopter and plans to be a software developer. So when he was invited to buy Google Glass, he acted fast. Now, he's thinking about what to do with it.

"They seem a little like a solution in search of a problem," Smith said. "They have an exceptional camera that's always available and the best clock ever, but there are some problems."

A weak app market and inability to work with most enterprise Wi-Fi top the list of difficulties, followed by a short battery life: 3 hours for general use and 45 minutes when taking a video. However, the device can receive email and Facebook notifications, as well as do Google searches, which has been useful for Smith. He uses the camera to take pictures of chalkboard notes and his own, which can then be sent to Google+ and reviewed later.

"Student filmmakers especially might like these," Smith noted, since they could walk through the rough draft of a video project and get a sense of what the final would look like. Smith suggested other educational uses like having teachers film their chalkboard work and send the video to students, much like the way that ASCTech helps instructors film videos for their classrooms and MOOCs.

Future uses for Google Glass especially intrigue Smith, "If it had a heads-up notification, teachers could learn more about their students – names, past grades, attendance— and that might help them understand them better. Also, it would be great to have an OSU app that would let students, especially freshman, know where they are on campus. It could learn their schedule and point them where to go."

After the first few weeks, Smith feels like Google Glass is "hoping to fill a niche," but with some development work, he can see the future clearly through Google Glass.