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54 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 10


Google and Toshiba o erings. It's clever though,
projecting the image along the lens through the
black portions at the edges of the frames. It means
that the frames themselves are thick, though,
making the wearer look pretty stupid, but Sony
might manage to slim down the tech to make the
glasses more attractive in future iterations. As we've
mentioned before, the Sony SmartEyeglasses are
still in prototype form.

The fi nal product we want to mention in this
comparison is Sony's SmartEyeglass Attach, which
we think could be the most successful commercially.
Sony SmartEyeglass Attach clips onto the side of
your own glasses, and is reasonably discrete.
Like the Google Glass, it uses a prism for the
display that can be repositioned closer or further
away from your eye to help with focusing, though
Sony has managed to make the SmartEyeglass
Attach prism tiny and therefore much less obvious.
Unlike the full SmartEyeglass, the Attach has a
colour display.

Design
Taking a closer look at the overall design of the
smartglasses, which is hugely important for wearable
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