US Military Testing New Spy Glasses

One of the advantages provided by 'smart' glasses that include a miniature camera, video display and Internet connection, such as Google Glass, is so-called ‘situational awareness’. This means that the person wearing them can, for instance, call up a map of the immediate surroundings or information about nearby shops and restaurants. San Francisco-based Osterhout Design Group says it developed a set of smart glasses that could provide ‘situational intelligence’ to military and...

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