If I Could Just Blink To Take A Picture How Awesome Would That Be?

I have wished for years to be able to simply blink to take a picture. I mean at least 8-10 years. I mean, how cool would it be to just be in the moment and think "Man, this is so cool - I need a picture!" and then just blink and bam! you have a picture? There are so many instances that this would come in handy. I know I have had countless times that I wish I could take a picture, but didn't have a camera accessible (or taking out a camera would ruin or break the moment I was hoping to capture). It isn't usually because I don't have a camera on me (I always have either my phone, my point-and-shoot, and/or my SLR on me at all times). It is usually because breaking away to grab said device would end the moment I want to capture.

Introduce Google Glass. This is the closest thing I know of that can get me to this dream of being able to take a picture with a blinking ease. And -- we are now proud owners of Glass! I am beyond excited, though I haven't played with it too much yet. There are multiple ways to take a picture with Google Glass: a button on the side, saying "OK Glass, take a picture," and winking. Winking. So close to blinking. It really is my dream, or at least you would think. See, here is the kicker. I can't wink. At all. I can kind of wink closing my left eye, but I can't at all when trying to close my right eye. I just distort my face into all kinds of convoluted shapes in my sad attempts to wink. To be able to use the wink feature with Glass you have to close the right eye. I've tried tricking it, but it is calibrated to Nathan's wink so it doesn't believe my hopeless attempts to fool it. I am this close to my dream, yet a lack of facial control holds me back. I guess I will need to practice winking more.

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