Sometime in the first few months of 2013, people wearing strange-looking glasses will start to roam America’s streets. Project Glass, the brainchild of Google, looks like a rather bizarre pair of glasses, but is in fact a mini display screen mounted in a flexible frame that also incorporates a camera, a microphone and a computer.
This gizmo, which lets users see e-mails and other stuff on its screen and take photos and record videos using its camera, is the most ambitious initiative to date in the emerging field of wearable computing.
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