This Article is From Sep 25, 2016

Snapchat To Offer Camera-Equipped 'Spectacles' In First Hardware Push

Snapchat To Offer Camera-Equipped 'Spectacles' In First Hardware Push

The sunglasses, dubbed Spectacles, will be sold via limited distribution for about $130.

New York: Snap Inc, the newly renamed parent company of messaging app Snapchat, plans to start selling camera-equipped sunglasses starting this fall, Chief Executive Evan Spiegel told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.

The sunglasses, dubbed Spectacles, will be sold via limited distribution for about $130, said Spiegel, who described the device as a toy.

The first hardware to be sold by Snap, the sunglasses will record video from the user's perspective in 10-second increments that can be synched with his or her smart-phone.

 
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