Apps for Google Glass are aimed at making life easier for wearers, but a recent study suggests one area that it hasn't been able to succeed is while driving.

Texting while driving with Google Glass is just as distracting as using your thumb on a smartphone, according to a University of Central Florida study.

Lead researcher Ben Sawyer said that the study involved forcing the 40 drivers to have to brake while in the middle of texting.

The study showed that using Google Glass and traditional texting both had the same response time to the braking event, but Google Glass wearers recovered more quickly.

"Texting with either a smartphone or Google Glass will cause distraction and should be avoided while driving. As distractive influences threaten to become more common and numerous in drivers' lives, we find the limited benefits provided by Glass a hopeful sign of technological solutions to come," Sawyer said.

But for now, Sawyer said, multitaskers continue to react more slowly than non-distracted drivers.

Google Glass continues to try to make life easier though, aside from texting and driving.

VentureBeat reported that the startup Image Searcher created a Google Glass version of its app CamFind.

The app serves as a visual search engine, by identifying whatever is in the view of the glass simply by its image.

Dominik Mazur, the chief executive of Los Angeles-based Image Searcher, told VentureBeat the app can accurately find the item in 12 seconds.

It works off of a combination of visual recognition and crowdsourcing -- to help correct any mistakes.

Mazur said that this holds a key to the future of e-commerce, when you will be able to simply buy whatever the item is just by finding it through a visual search.

CamFind has returned answers for about 17 million searchers, VentureBeat reported. But this number is a combined total from the Apple and Android apps, as well as TapTapSee, a virtual assistant product for the blind.