Google Glass lands for consumers in 2014

Google Glass

Google Glass

It could be a few years before the rest of us get the chance to take our own pair of Google Glass skydiving. Google co-founder Sergey Brin told Bloomberg that the “Explorer Edition” of Project Glass will be delivered to developers next year and made available to the general public a year after that — that means 2014. “These Explorer Editions I’d like to get out early next year,” Brin told Bloomberg. “Within a year after that I want to have broad consumer offering.” If Google really moves and hits the early side of that timeline, perhaps we can look forward to downhill skiers and bobsledders sporting Google Glass at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Could a pair of specs that tells an athlete exactly when to enter the next turn be considered a performance-enhancing device? Read the full story at CNET.

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).