While many of the digital glitterati thronging this week's Consumer Electronics Show were wearing Google's new Internet glasses, rival online eyewear products abounded among the trade stands. US-based Vuzix showed off what it billed as the first commercially available "smart glasses," an Android-powered monocle-style device with a high-resolution camera. It can be connected to smartphones or wireless Internet hotspots and display Internet data directly in front of a user's eye. "We are targeting it toward the industrial space, like people in a warehouse who need to pick up packages," Mike Hallett of Vuzix told AFP, while showing off the eyewear at CES.



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