"Sergey wouldn't let me wear the Google Glasses but I could see they were flashing info to him," Scoble tweeted. He said that the glasses are "many months, if not years" away from becoming a consumer product.
That lines up with the little information that's come from Google on the product. According to the project's developers, the glasses video and press shots are meant to spark discussion about what the product could look like, and do.
"We're sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input," wrote the Google Glass team on their Google+ page. "So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable to you do."
Keywords to note there are "could" and "might."
So the Google glasses are vaporware of the highest order — likely not a product that consumers should plan to buy for, say, Christmas 2012.
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