The capacitive display was extremely responsive to our light finger taps and familiar multitouch gestures like two finger scrolling and pinching to zoom.
It's worth noting at this point that the navigation buttons are a little light under your finger, and the fatter-thumbed can find themselves choosing the wrong option, like a last-second golf putting twitch.
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Light touches, such as resting your finger against an unused string, can trigger a note that'd otherwise be considered a mute.
We got -- I was in there fooling around with those windows, where you press them and they dim on their own. (Laughter.) I kept on pressing the button, and -- dimmed and got light -- one touch with a finger.
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An hour past his usual bedtime, Mason was awake and transfixed by the glowing orange light on the oxygen monitor taped to his finger, ET-style.
"I couldn't read the screen because the way the light was hitting it, all I could see were finger smears, " says the software developer.
The dimmer has a unique multi-touch capacitive interface that allows the light to be turned on or off by sliding a finger up or down on the glass switch front.
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Jon Stewart, a comedian who usually has his finger on the pulse of liberal America, was able to make light of the travails of Congressional Democrats.
And when you finger-paint with a kid or you dance and you see their little eyes light up, it's pretty incredible.
The finger gesture that people use to dismiss the notifications can be distracting, as can the flash of light on the Glass itself.
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