Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is employing as the next breakthrough in mobile computing, and that the product was dubbed Google Glass" which will be offered to "bold, creative individuals" selected as part of a contest announced on Wednesday.
In fact, participants must live in the US and submit an application of up to 50 words explaining what they would do with the Google Glass technology. Entries must include the hash tag "ifihadglass" and be submitted through Google Plus or Twitter by next Wednesday. Even though Google did not mention how many glasses it will sell this way.
To say more, winners will receive the "Explorer" version of Google Glass, a forerunner of the product that is expected to be released to the mass market next year. It seems that, Google Inc. already sold an unspecified number of the glasses to computer programmers who also paid $1,500 apiece at a company conference last June.
Moreover, the people picked to buy this next batch of glasses will be notified in mid- to late March and that they will have to travel to New York, Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay area to pick them up.
Google Glass is at the forefront of a new wave of technology known as "wearable computing."and that Google Glass is supposed to perform many of the same tasks as smart phones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. The glasses include a tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye and run on Google's Android operating system for mobile devices. That's because no hands are required to operate them, by Google Glass is supposed to make it easier for people to take pictures or record video wherever they might be or whatever they might be doing. Online searches also can be more easily conducted by just telling Google Glass to look up a specific piece of information. Google's Android system already has a voice search function on smartphones and tablet computers.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged that the company was still working out bugs and trying to figure out how to extend the product's battery life and that he has been overseeing the work on Google Glass, which the company first began developing in 2010 as part of a secretive company division now known as Google X. while he also said that the mass-market version of Google Glass will cost less than $1,500, but more than a smartphone.
It's indeed another scientific wonder leading towards great invention for the new age by the world-class Google. It really makes us think twice!
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
