Spectacles

[Eug]

Wow. That seems pretty frickin' stupid.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/snapchat-releases-first-hardware-product-spectacles-1474682719

What initially appears to be a normal pair of sunglasses turns out to be Spectacles, the first hardware product from Snap Inc., as the firm has been newly christened (Spiegel is refreshing the company name because its offerings now go beyond the Snapchat app). When you slip Spectacles on and tap a button near the hinge, it records up to 10 seconds of video from your first-person vantage. Each new tap records another clip.

 

[Crono]

Part of this has to be a marketing move for whatever else they are working on or doing next, or to attract investment.

 

[Mopetar]

So it's a less functional version of Google Glass?

Also, it's hard to tell from the photo since it's black and white, but I can't imagine a color scheme where that pattern manages to look good.

 

[Red Storm]

The idea of recording from your eyes' point of view is a good one. I had a go pro clipped to my cap on our vacation in Hawaii and the footage was really cool to see. However, these hideous glasses are not the way. Unless those lenses are going to display information, they need to stop trying to make this sort of thing look like glasses. The gen 1 Google Glass was better than this.

 

[IronWing]

Seventh graders will be all over these if they are cheap enough.