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Snapchat launches sunglasses with camera

Snapchat, Inc that renamed it self to Snap, Inc has announced its first gadget: sunglasses with a built-in camera, the name of the device is called Spectacles and will be on stock next year. The price will be around 130$. 

The objective of these glasses is see your own experience again and again so you never forget.

Evan Spiegel, the creator of Snapchat, had this idea when he went on vacations to California with the photographer Karl Lagerfeld. They saw very beautiful views and when they got the pictures they did, he could see his own memory. So he had this idea of Spectacles to have an experience of the experience you had in past. 

Footage will have a circular format to view in anydirection. The battery will go on for a day. The glasses have a light on the front to indicate when the glasses are recording.

Spectacles will remind Google Glass but Spectacles doesn't make you look foolish because are like sunglasses (for help to hide the camera better).

Snap Company will go slow with this device, depending on whether people like it or not.

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I think technology is going very fast because we do not need that kind of sophistication in our lives. We can live without those glasses, or without Play Station. But I’m afraid that technology will always progress and in a future, unfortunately, we’ll depend of it.

And about Speclacles, I’m curious about how works and I think it’s an original idea live an experience that you lived before, but we don’t need that. Socrates went to a market once, and said: “Look those things I don’t need”. I think world is the same, there are a lot of things we don’t need.