Thursday, 12 April 2018

Snap is making a new version of Spectacles nobody asked for


Snap had high hopes for its Spectacles when they launched in September 2016. The company’s fashionable eyeglasses with built-in front-facing cameras that beamed short videos straight to your phone to post on Snapchat were its first foray into hardware, and it was optimistic enough about selling tons of them that it made them available through quirky vending machines, its own site, and even on Amazon. As it turns out, not too many folks cared for Snap’s creepy glasses, which offered limited utility and whose novelty wore off all too quickly. By November last year, the company ended up losing some…

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