Unveiled as the first major product of the highly secretive
"Google X" laboratory, Project Glass stole the show at last
month's Google's I/O conference thanks to a live demonstration
of the technology. It displayed skydiving, biking and rappelling
down the side of the building, all using the live streaming
feature from Google Hangouts to share the wearers' first-person
perspectives with the world. Thanks to a YouTube hookup,
audiences around the world got a great idea of what Google's
Glasses can really do in the wild. Google's "Project Glass" is
incredibly ambitious, but it appears that Google is no longer
alone in exploring the realm of wearable tech solutions. Apple
was reportedly granted a patent on Tuesday in relation to
"peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays." Of all the
companies to build a Project Glass rival, Google should worry
most about Apple. While Google Glass places a piece of
smartglass right above the user's eye, Apple's solution uses two
peripheral lights to show two different image