Amazon working on 'smart glasses' as its first wearable device
Amazon working on 'smart glasses' as its first wearable
device: FT
Reuters Staff SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 / 10:22 PM / UPDATED 11
HOURS AGO
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is working on its first
wearable device - a pair of ‘smart glasses’, the Financial Times reported on
Wednesday.
The device, designed like a regular pair of spectacles,
will allow Amazon's digital assistant Alexa to be summoned anytime at all
places, the report said, citing people familiar with the plans.
There would be a bone-conduction audio system in the
device to allow the wearer to hear Alexa without inserting headphones into his
or her ears, according to the report.
Amazon was not immediately available to comment on the
report outside regular business hours.
Earlier this year, Alphabet Inc re-introduced its own
wearable glass headset, Google Glass, after discontinuing its production last
year.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by
Gopakumar Warrier
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