Google's Project Glass Eyewear: Next Big Google Flop or Hit?

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With Project Glass, Google aims to bring wearable computers into the mainstream. Google's futuristic glasses combine a tiny smartphone and small computer display with a camera and microphone, and they use speech recognition to let you browse the Web, video chat with friends, listen to music, and much more. Does Project Glass represent a bold new leap in personal technology--or just a really bad idea? Read our top story for two PCWorld writers' opinions, and join the discussion. --Kim Saccio-Kent, Newsletter Editor Top Story Google's Project Glass Eyewear: Next Big Google Flop or Hit? Google dazzles our imagination with its augmented reality glasses, but could the Internet behemoth have a diamond or a dud on its hands? Top Tweets From @PCWPluggedIn Plants rigged up to display emotion: Good luck getting the hemp plant to do more than giggle and say it's hungry. Google previews augmented reality glasses: And here I thought "augmented reality glasses" were two tumblers of Scotch. 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