Google Glass: Ten features and ways to use it

Google has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer.

1. Google Glass responds to voice commands

Google Glass will perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen.

2. Run on Google’s Android

The glasses include a tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye and run on Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices.

3. Take picture or record videos while on the move

Because no hands are required to operate them, Google Glass will make it easier for people to take pictures or record video wherever they might be or whatever they might be doing.

4. Online searches can be easily conducted

Online searches also can be more easily conducted by just telling Google Glass to look up a specific piece of information. Google’s Android system already has a voice search function on smartphones and tablet computers.

5. Google Glass can synch to the Internet

The eyewear features built-in camera, microphone and speaker technology and can synch to the Internet using wireless connections.

6. Video through the eyes of wearers can be streamed live

As with the sky divers, cyclists, and wall-walkers who took part in the Google developers conference stunt, video through the eyes of wearers can be streamed live on Google’s social network.

7. Google Glass will come in 5 colors

Google said all of the footage was captured through Project Glass, which will come in five colors – black, gray, blue, red or white and have removable shades.

8. Google Glass for mass market will cost less than $1,500

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the mass-market version of Google Glass will cost less than $1,500, but more than a smartphone.

9. Google first began developing glasses in 2010

Sergey Brin has been overseeing the work on Google Glass, which the company first began developing in 2010 as part of a secretive company division now known as Google X.

10. Google Glass to hit market in 2014

Google Glass is at the forefront of a new wave of technology known as “wearable computing’ and should hit the market in a little more than a year. The company hopes it will someday make fumbling with smartphones obsolete.