At last a technology company has grasped the essential difference between wearable and portable, between clothing and accessories, between artifice that seems like second nature and artifice that seems like a clunky cyborg upgrade.
Surprisingly, that company is the same behemoth (though a different team) that peddled the aggressively unnatural Google Glass.
At a recent developers' conference, Google Inc.'s Advanced Technology and Projects group announced what it calls Project Jacquard, named for the early 19th-century looms that first used digital punch cards to program complex patterns.