Google futuristic glasses on the way

Google glasses that overlay the Internet on daily lives should hit the market within two years.

Google glasses that overlay the Internet on daily lives should hit the market within two years.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin gave the estimated timeline after a project update that included sky divers dropping in with a new version of "Glass" wearable computers.

Google Glass eyewear features built-in camera, microphone and speaker technology and can synch to the Internet using wireless Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections. Mini-screens in the glasses can display text messages, email or other digitised information from the Internet or mobile gadgets. AFP

Launches Nexus 7 tablet

Glenn Chapman
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SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday opened fire on iPad and Kindle Fire with a Nexus tablet designed to showcase the latest Android software and be a window into its online shop for films, movies and more.

The Nexus 7 tablet computer will be priced at less than half the cost of the market-leading iPad and broadens Google's arsenal in its battle against Apple, Amazon.com, and Microsoft to be at the heart of Internet Age lifestyles. The seven-inch tablet powered by the latest generation of Android software is being made for Google by Taiwan-based Asus and weighs about as much as a paperback book and is available at a price of $199. AFP