Google is relying on a little social networking to put its Internet-connected glasses on the heads of more people.
The expanded sales of the device known as Google Glass (which works like a smartphone except that it’s worn on the head like a pair of spectacles – the device includes a speaker, a hand-free camera and a thumbnail-sized display screen attached to the frame above the right eye ) will come as part of an invitation-only program announced on October 30, 2013.
The roughly 10,000 Glass owners who began testing the device earlier this year will each be allowed to invite up to three people to buy the device. The early Glass users are primarily computer programmers and winners of an online contest conducted earlier this year. The recipients of the invitations will have to pay $1,500 apiece for Glass.
Google Inc. still plans to release a less-expensive model of Glass next year. The precise pricing and timing of the mass-market version still hasn’t been determined. READ MORE