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"Details on Google's Project Glass haven't been the easiest thing to come by since the wearable computing effort was announced earlier this year, but Google execs have been getting a bit more talkative and eager to give demonstrations as of late. You can now add product lead Steve Lee to that list, who's given a fairly wide-ranging interview to Fast Company on the project's origins and its future. Not surprisingly, he confirmed that the early prototypes were a fair bit bulkier -- starting a laptop in a backpack -- and that even the current prototypes are still \"very early,\" although they do handle more than just photos (he gives Maps as one example). Lee does see photo-taking as a \"key aspect\" to the device, though. He also cast some doubt on initial reports that the devices would be available this year for between $250 and $600, saying that would be \"pretty aggressive timing,\" but he also noted that he \"wouldn't be on this project if it was like a five-year endeavor.\" As for the future, he says that contact lenses with the technology is a natural evolution but a definite \"long-term thing,\" and that a nearer term goal is to \"serve everyone and make this is a universal device,\" adding that they've \"prototyped lots of different form factors to accommodate all those folks.\" All of that comes just from the first part of a two-part interview, though -- the rest is promised later this week."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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