But anyone with a pair of field glasses can see for himself what Baptistina's daughters are capable of.

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What I imagine would be much better than trying to blast your way through Left 4 Dead on the PS Vita would be playing the game with a pair of Google Glasses.

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The UK-based mom-of-two was stuffed into a lacey black dress, armed with stacks of gold bangles and topped with a pair of square-rimmed glasses, as if forgotten in her hair.

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The device consists of a panel of electrodes that are surgically implanted in the eye, and a pair of glasses with an attached camera.

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It was a sad face, blue, with big round glasses and a mustache like a pair of bluebird wings.

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Total Immersion specialises in so-called web mashups, where an online user sees a video reflection of themselves coupled with a 3D object that they can control, such as camera that responds accurately to button presses, or a pair of glasses that lets the user switch the frame or colour scheme.

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To make it work, you connect a Windows PC to the device, which consists of a pair of 960 x 540 Epson displays embedded in the transparent glasses (with a detachable shade, as shown in the prototype above), and a depth sensor attached to the top.

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Atheer, another wearable computing startup, debuted its software and prototype hardware, which amounted to a bulky pair of glasses that allowed the user to switch between maps, newspapers and games with gesture controls.

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