Amazon builds Alexa into a pair of glasses
Amazon is developing a pair of smart glasses, featuring the company's voice assistant Alexa. The glasses are the first wearable product Amazon has developed, and will use bone conduction, instead of speakers or headphones, to transmit Alexa's voice to users. Google Glass founder Babak Parviz, who was hired by Amazon in 2014, is reportedly working on the project. The glasses may arrive this year alongside an updated and expanded line of Echo products, according to the Financial Times.
Amazon's first wearable device will be a pair of smart glasses with the Alexa voice assistant built in, according to a report in the Financial Times. The device will reportedly look like a regular pair of glasses and use bone-conduction technology so that the user can hear Alexa without the need for earphones or conventional speakers. It won't, however, likely have a screen or camera, although Google Glass founder Babak Parviz has apparently been working on the project following his hiring by Amazon in 2014.

The FT report also says that Amazon is working on a home security camera separate from its ever-expanding lineup of Echo devices; the product that ultimately turned out to be the Echo Look was widely assumed to be a more conventional security camera when it first leaked. Amazon's Echo Show already lets you view the feed from other security cameras, a feature naturally pegged for the company's own upcoming model.