Google expands sales of Internet-connected glasses

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google is relying on a little social networking to put its Internet-connected glasses on the heads of more people.

The expanded sales of the device known as Google Glass will come as part of an invitation-only program announced Monday.

The roughly 10,000 Glass owners who began testing the device earlier this year will each be allowed to invite up to three people to buy the device. The early Glass users are primarily computer programmers and winners of an online contest conducted earlier this year.

The recipients of the invitations will have to pay $1,500 apiece for Glass, which works like a smartphone except that it's worn on the head like a pair of spectacles. The device includes a speaker, a hand-free camera and a thumbnail-sized display screen attached to the frame above the right eye.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Bit cumbersome

[onehandle]

2. The world's biggest ad spammer and data spy wants to convert humanity into a marketer's dream.

A cyborg who's brain you can beam ads directly into.

[beerandjesus]

3. The ad for this thing really upset me.

It had some Google Glass user taking pictures and tweeting them or whatever while playing with his kid, among other things.

Sure, the kid was cute... but what about being PRESENT?

I'm not usually one to wring my hands over the decline of the culture, but I was depressed for about an hour after seeing the ad, no shit. I'll see if I can find it if anyone cares.... but I'm disinclined to subject DU to that!

[navarth]

4. Here's hoping that the google monster

loses BIG on this one. Something needs to rein it in.

[rrneck]

5. Tribalism pays. nt

[MADem]

6. Reminds me of the EYE phone!!!!!!