{"id":4938,"date":"2017-09-22T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2017-09-22T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:46:31","slug":"amazon-working-smart-glasses-first-wearable-device-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/amazon-working-smart-glasses-first-wearable-device-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon working on \u2018smart glasses\u2019 as its first wearable device: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc is working on its first wearable device &#8211; a pair of \u2018smart glasses\u2019, the Financial Times reported.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The device, designed like a regular pair of spectacles, will allow Amazon\u2019s digital assistant Alexa to be summoned anytime at all places, the report said, citing people familiar with the plans.<\/p>\n<p>There would be a bone-conduction audio system in the device to allow the wearer to hear Alexa without inserting headphones into his or her ears, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon was not immediately available to comment on the report outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Alphabet Inc re-introduced its own wearable glass headset, Google Glass, after discontinuing its production last year.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc is working on its first wearable device &#8211; a pair of \u2018smart glasses\u2019, the Financial Times reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}