Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. is weighing an expansion into digital glasses, a risky but potentially lucrative area of wearable computing, according to people familiar with the matter.
While still in an exploration phase, the device would connect wirelessly to iPhones, show images and other information in the wearer’s field of vision, and may use augmented reality, the people said. They asked not to be identified speaking about a secret project.
Apple has talked about its glasses project with potential suppliers, according to people familiar with those discussions. The company has ordered small quantities of near-eye displays from one supplier for testing, the people said. Apple hasn’t ordered enough components so far to indicate imminent mass-production, one of the people added.
If true, it’ll be interesting to see what Apple does differently than Google did with Glass. This is an area where subtlety of design will make all the difference.
Maybe digital shoes, wherein the user could perhaps make a phone call. Oh wait, Maxwell Smart already did that.
He also had a piston phone! Actually, they had phones in everything on that show.
man, i will never understand why apple-centric websites feel the need to reprint every damn fool rumor they come across.
you don’t honestly think this has the slightest chance of happening any time soon, do you? i mean, seriously, do you? no, you don’t. so why print it?
Sunglasses with the camera on the bottom of the frames.. never step in dog shit again. Or, wear them on your forehead. Discreet, fashionable. Very Apple-y.
“If true, it’ll be interesting to see what Apple does differently than Google did with Glass.”
Come on, Dave. This is easy. All Apple Glasses will be rimless with thin metal arms, Jobsian style.
Apple “explores” a lot of things that we’ll never see.