Google's Explorer Edition has emerged as the biggest hit of the 2012 Google I/O. Take a closer look as an attendee wears them for CNET.
Edward Moyer
Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. For nearly a quarter of a century, he's edited and written stories about various aspects of the technology world, from the US National Security Agency's controversial spying techniques to historic NASA space missions to 3D-printed works of fine art. Before that, he wrote about movies, musicians, artists and subcultures.
CNET writer Rafe Needleman checks out an image of fireworks on Google co-founder Sergey Brin's Project Glass spectacles. Brin passed his pair around to several journalists after his elaborate Project Glass presentation at Google I/O 2012 in San Francisco.
2 of 10Sergey Brin
CNET reporter Stephen Shankland gets his turn with Brin's specs.
3 of 10Stephen Shankland/CNET
Google co-founder Sergey Brin touts the Project Glass computerized glasses at the Google I/O show.
4 of 10Stephen Shankland/CNET
During an elaborate publicity stunt for the glasses at the Google I/O developers confab, a cyclist rides down the aisle wearing the computerized spectacles, which are filming the goings-on from his point of view. Various POV shots, including those culled from the glasses worn by a group of skydivers, were shown live on screen at the event, as the various parties converged on the Moscone convention center.
5 of 10
Here are a couple of those skydivers we talked about, as seen by another member of the Project Glass-wearing group. You can see the San Francisco Bay in the background, and in the foreground, lower left, you can see Brin looking up at the live footage on a large screen at S.F.'s Moscone convention center.
6 of 10
And here's what one of the Project Glass-wearing skydivers saw on the way down toward the roof of the Moscone Center In S.F., where Sergey Brin and the rest of the crowd at Google I/O was watching the footage projected on a large screen.
7 of 10Stephen Shankland/CNET
Another view of Brin with the San Francisco Bay in the background. You can watch the video of the dramatic publicity stunt here.
8 of 10James Martin/CNET
A Google I/O attendee models a cyan-colored pair of Project Glass glasses.
9 of 10James Martin/CNET
A little bit closer on those cyan-colored Project Glass spectacles.
