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Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear . To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there’s a lot of secret technology concealed within those sleek lines and Google evidently wants to prevent others from copying their appearance
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Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected
Looks like we’re starting to get a little insight into Google’s Project Glass testing process. Seems like the augmented reality glasses need to make their way onto every head on the Google staff, before the company feels confident moving ahead with them
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Google’s Vic Gundotra tries Project Glass on for size
Head-mounted displays may be all the rage as of late, thanks to Sergey Brin’s own recent fashion choices , but the space is hardly new. Brother, for one, has been in the game for a while now, with its AirScouter glasses , and before fellow printer-maker Epson steals all its glory , the company wants you to know that it’s got some new wearable augmented reality on the way. The AirScouter WD-100G and WD-100A are being targeted toward business users, allowing workers to get all of the relevant information from their computer, without staring at a proper monitor — of course, you’re going to want to use the included USB cable to tether you to that PC.
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Brother AirScouter glasses bring augmented reality, unsightly add-ons to your face
Oakley’s Thump glasses haven’t exactly succeeded in fending off the competition when it comes to portable music playback, but that isn’t stopping it from working feverishly to develop the next round of vaguely intelligent eyewear. CEO Colin Baden told Bloomberg that the company has been toying with ways to project information onto sunglasses since 1997, hoping to start by augmenting the world of sports before ultimately blending into more consumery pursuits with shades that could run solo or pair up with a smartphone
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Oakley cooking up its own smart glasses, hoping to trump Project Glass with improved style
Wondering what it might be like to sport Google’s Project Glass augmented reality HUD in your daily life?
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL
The good news: Google has started testing those augmented reality glasses we heard about earlier in the year. The bad news: if the artsy shots of the test units are to be believed, they won’t make you look like some ’80s cinematic anti-hero
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Google testing heads-up display glasses in public, won’t make you look like Robocop
The Carl Zeiss Cinemizer OLED has been a long time in the making — we first heard about the video glasses at Macworld in 2008 — but the company has yet to push the head-mounted display past the prototype phase. We stumbled upon Zeiss’ booth here at CeBIT, where we found a version of the glasses that look mighty similar to the mock-up we saw in marketing materials from 2010 , but are now equipped with a pair of head-tracking modules to expand the yet-to-be released marvel’s practicality
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Zeiss Cinemizer OLED with head-tracking hands-on (video)
It’s not the first time that rumors have surfaced of Google working on some heads-up display glasses ( 9 to 5 Google first raised the possibility late last year), but The New York Times is now reporting that the company is not only working on them, but that it’s set to release them by the end of this year. Citing “several Google employees familiar with the project,” the paper’s Nick Bilton reports that the glasses will be based on Android, pack 3G or 4G connectivity, plus GPS and a range of sensors, and cost “around the price of current smartphones,” or somewhere between $250 and $600. They’re also said to include a low-resolution camera that can monitor your surroundings in real time and overlay relevant information, although Google is said to be paying attention to potential privacy concerns, and “wants to ensure that people know if they are being recorded by someone wearing a pair of glasses with a built-in camera.” What’s more, the Times says that none other than Sergey Brin is a “key leader” on the project, with another being Google engineer Steve Lee, the creator of Latitude .
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NYT: Google to sell Android-based heads-up display glasses this year
Remember those wicked holographic augmented reality glasses that DARPA was so hot to build?
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Vuzix augmented reality Smart Glasses prototype hands-on (video)
Vuzix has announced plans to develop a stylish head-mounted display solution in the form of Smart Glasses, through a licensing partnership with Nokia . The yet-unnamed product would integrate a bright, high-contrast display with a pair of seemingly ordinary-looking sunglasses — sounds like a perfect companion to the ZionEyez in-glasses camera prototype we saw last month . In Vuzix’s words: This amazing new technology starts with a compact display engine capable of hi contrast and brightness for outdoor use.
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Vuzix designs Smart Glasses to look like sunshades, tout connected transparent display
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
