This was the first time that people talked about wearable technology. Technology moves on faster and faster, and Google Glass will always be part of history.
— Diane von Furstenberg, fashion guru who teamed up with Google to design frames for Glass. She told the New York Times she has no regrets about getting involved with Google Glass, whose sales were halted last month.
The first incarnation of Google Glass — the Internet-connected, camera-equipped specs that inspired oohs and ahhs but also oh nos — may be history, but there could be a do-over. Italian eyewear company Luxottica told our own Matt O Brien wrote last month that its partnership with Google was still on. And the New York Times notes that Tony Fadell — former Apple executive and creator of Nest, which Google bought — is in charge of redesigning Glass from scratch along with jewelry designer Ivy Ross.
Early Glass efforts have broken ground and allowed us to learn what s important to consumers and enterprises alike, Fadell said in a statement to the NYT. He said he and Ross would work together to integrate those learnings into future products.
It s hard to imagine Google will solicit Explorers, or beta testers, for those future products like the company did with Glass. (That was apparently part of Google co-founder Sergey Brin s insistence that Glass be pushed out into the wild before it was ready.) An unnamed Fadell adviser told the NYT that there will be no public experimentation because Tony is a product guy and he s not going to release something until it s perfect.
Photo of Google Glass from AFP/Getty Images archives
