Your Attempts to Get Google Glass Are Pretty Embarrassing

We offered our first born. That's a totally normal thing to do, right?

(Screencap: YouTube)
(Screencap: YouTube)

Google (GOOGL) 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.

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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.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXwxx3B2A4]

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/nickbilton/status/304282064851726336

The impossibly topical entries:

https://twitter.com/alexismadrigal/status/304279568301301760

The geniuses:

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/304299102353649664

The humblebraggers:

And of course, the doubters.

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/304300046164324352

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/304304671449808898

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.

Your Attempts to Get Google Glass Are Pretty Embarrassing