14 DAY TRIAL // Google intends to break tradition, so to speak, and not delegate the manufacturing of its pet project to countries from the Middle or Far East, no matter how good the companies stationed there are at it.
That is to say, the Google Glass augmented reality headsets will be manufactured on US soil, not in South Korea or Taiwan or Japan.
The company that scored the contract is still foreign though: Foxconn, known for being a primary Apple supplier. The Foxconn plant is located in Santa Clara, California.
Curiously, this announcement was made (through Financial Times), just after the names of the winners of the #ifihadglass contest had been announced.
The lucky people will get the option of purchasing a Glass Explorer Edition and, along with the ones that registered to purchase Google Glass at last year's Google I/O conference, will get the headsets mailed.
Google hasn't exactly confirmed all of this yet, but enough entities on the Internet are in agreement on it.
It should be noted, however, that the first production run of Google Glass will be very limited. Only a few thousand Glass devices will be manufactured over the next few weeks.
After that, Google will have to announce its actual launch plans, and only then will mass production start.
For those that don't want to go hunting down previous descriptions of the Glass, the product is a headset in the shape of glasses with a single lens. We'd call it a monocle if it didn't go around both sides of the head.
It can accept phone calls, respond to voice commands, connect to the Internet and display information, photos, video chat windows and pretty much everything else a phone can do on the “lens” that is actually a small display. Tourists will see information pop-ups around monuments and landmarks, details about food they are about to buy, record what they are looking at, etc.