Intel's new smart glasses hands-on
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 ...