Day 50

Field Research and Batteries

I set Glass up plugged in to my car's auxiliary outlet this morning for a charge.  Unfortunately, my Prius shuts off after about 15 minutes without its digital key within range. 

Glass turns itself on when charging begins, but doesn't turn itself off when power is lost.  The result was a completely discharged Glass as the day began.  Bad Google; bad Glass.  Glass should not power up when it is plugged into power for charging after it has been manually turned off. 


Even so, the overall benefit of having Glass around during field work was inestimable.  On Saturday, I was taking down data on elevation, slope, soil moisture, soil temperature, species lists, and time of collection.  Ty and Kent were busy with selecting random plots and harvesting the plants there.  We never would've gotten as many images as we did without Glass.