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Continuing the campaign to make Google Glass happen, Sergei Brin explains what hunching over smartphones does to your manhood: "Is this the way you're meant to interact with other people? It's kind of emasculating. Is this what you're meant to do with your body?" We, too, can't wait for the day when we can browse Twitter while looking someone directly in the eye, like a real man. [Telegraph UK]