No glass ceiling but glass vision
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June 29, 2012, Friday
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GOOGLE helped create a world brimming with digital distractions for people spending more of their lives tethered to the Internet. It's a phenomenon that seems unlikely to change so Google is working on a way to search for information, read text messages, watch online video and post photos on social networks without fumbling around with a hand-held device.
The breakthrough is a wearable computer - a pair of Internet-connected glasses that Google Inc began secretly building more than two years ago. The technology progressed far enough for Google to announce "Project Glass" in April. Now the futuristic experiment is moving closer to becoming a mass-market product.
Google said on Wednesday it's selling a prototype of the glasses to US computer programmers attending a three-day conference that ends today. Developers willing to pay US$1,500 for a pair of the glasses will receive them early next year.
The company is counting on the programmers to suggest improvements and build applications that will make the glasses even more useful.
"This is new technology and we really want you to shape it," Google co-founder Sergey Brin told 6,000 attendees. "We want to get it out into the hands of passionate people as soon as possible."
If all goes well, a less expensive version of the glasses may go on sale for consumers in early 2014. Without estimating a price for the consumer version, Brin made it clear the glasses will cost more than smartphones.
"We do view this as a premium sort of thing," Brin said during a question-and-answer session with reporters.
But Brin said Google still needs to fix bugs in the glasses and figure out how to make the battery last longer so people can wear them all day.
The breakthrough is a wearable computer - a pair of Internet-connected glasses that Google Inc began secretly building more than two years ago. The technology progressed far enough for Google to announce "Project Glass" in April. Now the futuristic experiment is moving closer to becoming a mass-market product.
Google said on Wednesday it's selling a prototype of the glasses to US computer programmers attending a three-day conference that ends today. Developers willing to pay US$1,500 for a pair of the glasses will receive them early next year.
The company is counting on the programmers to suggest improvements and build applications that will make the glasses even more useful.
"This is new technology and we really want you to shape it," Google co-founder Sergey Brin told 6,000 attendees. "We want to get it out into the hands of passionate people as soon as possible."
If all goes well, a less expensive version of the glasses may go on sale for consumers in early 2014. Without estimating a price for the consumer version, Brin made it clear the glasses will cost more than smartphones.
"We do view this as a premium sort of thing," Brin said during a question-and-answer session with reporters.
But Brin said Google still needs to fix bugs in the glasses and figure out how to make the battery last longer so people can wear them all day.
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