This has to be the next step in the Borgification of America: Icuiti unveils AV230 head-mounted display - Engadget .

Five years ago, I would have thought it a geek-boy's bad dream to conjecture that people would be walking around in public with blue-blinking devices hanging off of one ear as they carried on a conversation in public with seemingly no-one but themself. And people just leave that BlueTooth headset on as they do their shopping or going about in life. From what I've seen in Redmond, it cuts across age and gender.

The next step is probably everyone having a set of heads-up displays. Look, we all know that our mobile phones and PDAs have a screen that's just too small. There comes a time when we want something bigger. Now, it could project an image and use the camera phone to watch us (e.g., type on a virtual keyboard or pad of somesort) but it's going to be a lot better if we can have a 44-inch projection floating in front of us.

Which means soon people will be walking around with some cool visor looking thing, talking on the phone or listening to their tunes. Or worse, driving while watching a movie.

I want one of these, but then I'm sure I wouldn't use it more than a few times a week. If I traveled a lot I'd certainly get one to watch videos or play games. Now, I'd love for it to be hooked up to a transparent GPS feed, so that as I looked around I could see a topo-layout of my property or property lines or, you know, directions and such. That would be far more advanced. I'm sure the future is a two-way visor that both scans what you're looking at and then feeds back video + augementation.

Anyway. Prepare your apps to run both on the small screen and the large screen. Borgs away!