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Things are evidently looking up for disgraced former Giants slugger Barry Bonds.
Two weeks ago, an 11-judge appeals court panel
raised questions about his 2011 obstruction of justice charge, suggesting it may soon be overturned in the Ninth Circuit.
And now, he's emerged as an unlikely poster child for Google Glass, a piece of once-hyped face-computing that, like Bonds,
fell into ill repute.
Granted, part of the reason for Glass's downfall was that it attracted the
wrong kind of tech evangelists and product promoters. Ultimately, if became difficult to disassociate the product itself from the unsavory characters who used it — hence the term "Glasshole."
Bonds might be the least Glasshole-ish Glasshole to flaunt the gadgetry. Today he posted a picture of himself on Instagram enjoying a sweeping San Francisco view through hi-tech eyewear. "I'm Glassing," he wrote in the picture's caption.
Bonds might have coined that slogan himself, but it isn't hard to see Google appropriating it. The picture instantly went viral, as fans gushed over Bonds or
openly wondered how the Google Glass had fit around his giant head. Within an hour, he'd upstaged
Diane von Furstenberg, who recently tried to yank Google's $1,500 face-computer into the world of haute couture.
Perhaps we're seeing a career change on the horizon.
