Now you see it, now you don’t. Google has closed its Google Glass Explorer program. There is now no way to buy the trend-setting wearable device. What’s going on?
It was going to be the Next Big Thing. Now the tech giant has withdrawn Google Glass from sale. It seems it is just not ready for prime time.
“It’s hard to believe that Glass started as little more than a scuba mask attached to a laptop,” says Google in an anonymously authored blog on its website. “We kept on it, and when it started to come together, we began the Glass Explorer Program as a kind of ‘open beta’ to hear what people had to say.