At least one person may have thought paying $1,500 was too much for Google Glass and instead decided to steal the high-tech goggles at Taser point.
This is the latest in a string of both positive and negatives incidents surrounding the controversial new device.
The theft took place in Venice, Calif., on April 14, the day before Google put the product on sale for one day only. The incident took place at the Waterfront Cafe. The victim also had his laptop taken. Local police said two men participated in the theft.
There was no indication whether this was a specific anti-Google Glass action or merely a common criminal activity.
However, in what was likely an attack on the device last week, Business Insider writer Kyle Russell had his Google Glass pulled off his face and smashed while he was covering a protest march in San Francisco. The event was staged to voice anger over a Google employees intention to evict tenants from a local building.
A similar case took place in a San Francisco bar in February when a Google Glass wearing woman was attacked. She claimed the attack took place because she was wearing the device, but the thieves also took her purse, cellphone and wallet.
"OMG so you'll never believe this but... I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some wanker Google Glass haters, then some *bleeeeeeeeeep* tore them off my face and ran out with them then and when I ran out after him his *bleeeeeeep* friends stole my purse, cellphone (sic) walet and everything," the vicitm Sarah Slocum said on her Facebook page following the incident.
The lone bright spot in the news for Google Glass came in Boston when a doctor used Google Glass to save a man's life. The doctor was able to quickly look up a patient's medical information without having to leave to go to a computer or rifle through his paperwork.
Despite concerns over privacy and people's concern that wearables like Google Glass will easily break, some polls have found general consumers would be interested in giving them a try. One poll found only 17 percent of those asked would not wear Glass, and in another online study, most said they had no intention of buying Google Glass during its one-day sale.
