Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing the Snap Specs. They’re not the worst connected him, but bold manner seldom makes for mainstream success. | Screenshot: CNBC

Yesterday, Snap debuted its caller $2,195 Specs glasses. In an interview with CNBC, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel described the Specs arsenic thing the institution had been moving connected for much than 12 years, an effort to "bring computing into the world" and "make it much human." He positioned them arsenic a instrumentality to assistance radical enactment much connected to the satellite astir them alternatively of looking down astatine their phones. People, helium said, are bushed of screens.

While Spiegel was speaking, I was struck by how, whenever his caput moved, the airy caught the lenses conscionable so, revealing the hidden outline of the Specs' display. It was ironic that Spiegel was talking astir scr …

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