

You can talk to Alexa – for controlling your smart home, getting notifications, making calls and listening to music – without the people around you hearing the responses. Unlike Google Glass they’re not AR so you don't see anything, but play Alexa feedback via four directional speakers built into each stem. The Echo Frames are Amazon’s Alexa-on-your-face play, and put the voice assistant into a regular pair of specs. There's also additional Round and Meteor frames available too. There will be 20 style variations, and they will support prescription lenses. On the listening front, they include two open ear speakers to handle listening to audio playing from your phone or to handle calls.Īll of that tech is being wrapped up in some familiar Ray-Ban frames, which include the iconic Wayfarer, and will apparently only add 5g over a non-smart pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses. There's plenty of innovation coming – here's the newest smart glasses tech arriving in 2021. That could be recreating the kind of screens and features you'd find on your smartphone like navigation for maps or flashing up notifications. When we talk about AR or augmented reality smartglasses, we are focusing on eyewear that has the technology on board to merge what you see in the real world with virtual information, usually overlaid on one of the glasses lenses.

The concept was thrust into the spotlight with Google Glass, and while Glass lives on in the workplace, it failed to break into the mainstream.

Putting useful connected features in front of our eyes is a challenge that both startups and major tech players have stepped up try and make a reality. Our results promise a bright future for additively manufactured glass microdevices in diverse fields of science.Smartglasses and AR are considered the next big breakthrough for wearables that will filter into our daily lives. Finally, the excellent optical quality of the glass structures is demonstrated with in-line Raman spectroscopic measurements. Additionally, the performance of a direct infusion device is demonstrated by mass spectrometric analysis of drugs. The functionality of a microfluidic glass microreactor is shown with online mass spectrometric analysis of linezolid synthesis. We characterize microfluidic devices (channel cross-section dimensions down to a scale of 100 μm) that have been produced by additive manufacturing of molten soda-lime glass in tens of minutes and report their mass spectrometric and Raman spectroscopic analysis examples.

Printing of materials such as polymers and metals is already a reality, but additive manufacturing of glass for microfluidic systems has received minor attention. In addition, microfluidic devices are increasingly being used for chemical analysis and continuous production of chemicals. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a disruptive technology that is changing production systems globally.
