Sony’s prototype EyeGlass smart specs eye up Google Glass
[Philip Lelyveld comment: Didn't google say they wouldn’t implement facial recognition because of privacy concerns and possible creepiness backlash? So much for that restraint!]
The glasses work by projecting information from your Android phone onto the lens as head-up display, so the words appear to hover in crisp green lettering over your view of the world in front of you.
The system is linked to your phone via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, so the glasses could potentially tie into your contacts and use facial recognition to identify people you meet...
Unlike Google Glass, the controls aren't on the glasses themselves. Instead, you use a remote control about the size of a hockey puck. Adding a cumbersome remote to a wearable gadget is some typically Sony missing of the point, but it does at least get around the size restriction of trying to add controls to a pair of specs without making them huge.
There's a touchpad on the remote and a camera button to fire the camera that's built into the glasses themselves -- but the main reason for the remote is to house the battery, which in this version is too big to wear on your face. Before the Smart EyeGlass goes on sale the battery will be slimmed down so you don't need the remote.
...eventually the glasses will scan your eye movements to scroll through the information on the screen.
See the full story here: http://www.cnet.com/products/sony-smart-eyeglass/