Business / Tech Sep 12, 2021
Smart glasses made Google look dumb. Now Facebook is giving them a try.
by Mike Isaac
The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.
Business / Tech | SEEN AT CEATEC Oct 9, 2014
Toshiba Glass sets sights on less obtrusive wearable tech
by Kazuaki Nagata
Some companies, most famously Google Inc., are seeing the future of wearable tech in eyewear devices. Toshiba Corp. is looking in the same direction, but based on a prototype recently unveiled at CEATEC, the company is taking a slightly more conventional approach to wearable tech. While ...
Digital Jun 13, 2014
Google Glass headsets find their way into the doctor's surgery
by Christina Farr
Google's futuristic eyeglasses are finding their way into hospitals and clinics throughout the United States. To meet the growing demand for Google Glass from physicians, Drchrono, a Mountain View, California-based electronic medical record company has developed a new application for the device it claims is ...
Digital | JAPAN WEB WATCH May 15, 2013
Google Glass may shatter Japan's 'manner' mode
by Akky Akimoto
Google Glass is the latest mobile Internet gadget to grab headlines. Resembling a pair of glasses, the futuristic device enables wearers to access the Internet — in particular Google's search, maps and translation functions — as long as they have a Wifi or Bluetooth ...
Digital | TECHNOLOGY Feb 27, 2013
Glass may look geeky, but you have to applaud Google's vision
by John Naughton
A few weeks ago, the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, spent four days in Cambridge as the Humanitas visiting professor in the university's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, where I work. Afterward, one of the questions I was most ...