Google picks 8000 users to test net connection glasses

The winners will have to pay $1,500 apiece if they desire a test edition of the product, called "Google Glass." They also will have to travel to New York, Los Angeles or the San Francisco cove area to pick up the device, which isn't predictable to be obtainable on the mass market until late this year or early next year.

The enthusiasm stems from the belief that Google Glass is at the front position of a new wave of technology recognized as "wearable computing." Google, Apple Inc. and numerous other companies also are working on Internet-connected wristwatches, according to available reports that have cited anonymous people recognizable with the projects.

Google Glass is theoretical to perform many of the similar tasks as smart phones, except the glasses react to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. The glasses are prepared with a hidden camera and tiny display screen friendly to a rim beyond the right eye.

The engineers who have been edifice Google Glass tout the technology as a way to keep people connected to their email, online social networks and other essential information without having to regularly gaze down at the small screen on a Smartphone. The hidden camera is intended to make it easy for people to take hands-free photos or video of anything they are doing.

The New Google Glass with Monthly Updates

The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps onward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of civilization. Normal height, slender builds; her eyes are bright, curious.

She leans in to shake my hand and at that moment I become intensely aware of the machine she’s wearing in the place you would imagine eyeglasses: a thin strip of aluminum and plastic with a weird, prismatic lens just underneath her brow.

What was a total peculiarity a year ago, and little more than a research just 18 months ago is now starting to look like a real invention. One that might be in the hands (or on the heads, rather) of customers by the end of this year.

A totally new kind of computing device; wearable, intended to reduce disruption, created to allow you to capture and converse in a way that is supposed to feel completely usual to the wearer. It’s the anti-Smartphone, clearly fashioned to blow apart our notions of how we network with technology.

The Glass project was started "about three years ago" by an engineer named Babak Parviz as part of Google’s X Lab plan, the lab also responsible for among other things self-driving cars and neural networks. Dissimilar those classic, sci-fi R&D projects at Google, Glass is receiving real much earlier than anyone expected.