Facebook and Ray-Ban are rolling out smart glasses that actually look cool. Will anyone buy it?
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Ray-Ban Stories, which Facebook has teased in the past, start at $299 and come in three styles, including the iconic Ray-Ban Wayfarer, and five hues. Initially, they're being sold at some Ray-Ban stores and at Ray-Ban.com.
He was trying out Google Glass about a month before the company publicly unveiled the device. But he wasn't actually doing anything with it, because it was out of batteries. (I know, because I saw him walking down the street that day, and asked him.) Google Glass eventually flopped as a consumer product, with some wearers of the gadget dubbed "Glassholes" for the perceived creepiness of the device and its prism-shaped over-eye display. But it set the stage for years of wonderment and bewilderment about smart glasses: What should they look like? What will we do with them? And who even wants to wear them, anyway?More Related News