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Intel's smart glasses  Vjeran Pavic/The Verge Stop me if you've heard this one before. A giant Silicon Valley company decides you might like to wear a computer on your head -- so you can see helpful digital information floating right in front of your eyes. But this time, the company is  Intel ,  not Google  -- and these smart glasses look like a regular pair of glasses, not a creepy cyborg visor. The Verge reported Monday  that Intel's New Devices Group (which  reportedly axed its wearables division last July ) has been quietly working on just such a pair of glasses, dubbed Vaunt, and plans to offer them up to developers in an early access program later this year.  How has nobody thought to put smarts in normal-looking glasses before? Well, it's been pretty tough to fit a miniature display and a decent-size battery into traditional eyewear. But here, Intel has managed to combine a very low-power red laser and a holographic reflector to ...