Google brings seamless, mobile internet on an eyeglass
05 Apr 2012
Finally, Larry Page and Sergey Brin have their dream come true. Google has brought out hands-free, mobile and seamless internet on a pair of eyeglasses, making search possible as you walk around.
Google on Wednesday offered a peep into the project to develop internet-connected glasses, entering the futuristic area of wearable computing, ahead of rival Apple, which is also planning a wearable computer.
The wearing glass, which is still in the prototype stage, uses a small see-through display screen placed above a person's eye to show maps and other data. The system can be operated through voice commands to pull up directions or send a message.
Built-in microphones let wearers command the internet-linked glasses by speaking.
Rival Apple had, as far back as in April 2008, filed a patent for a head-mounted display system that has glasses with screens.
"We think technology should work for you - be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't," members of the project team said in a Google+ post.
