Lots
of glass companies guarantee their work.
Not exact matches
LG has already announced that it will be showing off new TVs with Google Assistant built in; a
company called Vuzix will be debuting a pair
of Alexa - powered smart
glasses.
Glass Door is a valuable source
of information for them, so it's wise to regularly check in there to see how employees (and ex-employees) paint a picture
of your
company.
In just four years, Warby Parker's chic
glasses and affordable prices have helped establish the
company as one
of the go - to places for eyesight - challenged.
The
company is envisioning a device that uses a «shape memory polymer» instead
of glass, which may be able to reshape itself and return to the original composition by applying heat to a scratched area.
The hot mess, complete with a replica
of Jobs's iconic wireframe
glasses, was a cheesy, yet heartfelt homage «to the greatest consumer electronics
company of all time.»
Shares
of popular messaging service Snap gained 2 % on Wednesday after a regulatory filing appeared to show the
company has a followup coming to its $ 130 Spectacles camera
glasses.
What if, instead, the
company set up sustainable eye clinics in poverty stricken parts
of the world in addition to donating eye
glasses?
In terms
of in - store innovations, the
company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner
of screens, simulators and other forms
of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using
glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.
Gayno and his fellow Googler Jeff Baxter had spent a lot
of time working with the
company's secretive project lab Google X, building products like Google
Glass and Android Wear.
For the bays where the
glasses are on display, the
company borrows an idea from bookstores, with shelves that often go nearly to the ceiling and sliding ladders that staff can use to grab hard - to - reach pairs
of glasses for the customer.
Several key Google employees instrumental to developing
Glass have left the
company in the last six months, including lead developer Babak Parviz, electrical engineering chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, director
of developer relations.
Before customers can get their hands on new products like Google
Glass or the Chromebook Pixel, Google staff do a lot
of «dogfooding» — that is, getting acquainted with the
company's software and tools before launching them.
The latest collection
of Woodzee
glasses are constructed using recycled whiskey barrels from the Columbus Barrel
Company in Ohio.
With so much
of the
company's branded merchandise such as beer openers,
glasses and T - shirts being made in China, Chiodo says his goal with that market is to reach sales that balance out the cost
of the goods he's purchasing from that country.
Snap, the
company formerly known as Snapchat, on Friday revealed its first non-app product: Spectacles, a pair
of camera - equipped
glasses designed to let users easily take photos and videos
of life as they experience it.
That might seem unfair to judge the
company and its flagship conference on a single flopped product, but the fate
of Glass is just the most high - profile in a long list
of disappeared or disappointing products ranging from Google Reader to Google Wave to the Nexus Q and Android Wear — a platform that still exists, but I usually forget to wear my devices that run it.
When Sandy struck, it knocked out electricity for two days, which disabled four
of the
company's furnaces, which were keeping
glass molten at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
EMC is no doubt hoping that
Glass Lewis's endorsement
of the deal will be enough to persuade undecided EMC shareholders who are skeptical that a newly combined
company would be able to better compete in a fast - changing technology landscape than either Dell or EMC by themselves.
The
company also helped live - stream a 360 - degrees performance by pop - star Pink during the premiere
of Alice Through the Looking
Glass.
With a shock
of gray hair, oversized
glasses and a messianic zeal for the future, Bre Pettis looks more like the host
of a sci - fi movie channel than chief executive officer
of a small manufacturing
company in a gritty Brooklyn neighborhood
of bricks and brownstone.
These privacy concerns, plus the host
of bugs discovered in the beta version and its lofty $ 1,500 price tag, meant that Google
Glass continued to receive bad press until the
company finally pulled the plug on the project last winter.
The Rochester, N.Y.
company, best known for its line
of head - mounted video eyewear favored by soldiers and gamers (as well as a 2009 cameo on The Oprah Winfrey Show), launched its own smart
glasses at the end
of 2013.
The
company totally redesigned the phone from scratch, giving it a metal and
glass body that looks and feels much nicer than any
of its previous phones.
Milky Way International Trading Corporation, the
company that distributes the product, issued a voluntary recall out
of «an abundance
of caution» after a customer complained about finding
glass in one
of the affected products.
The
company also works with the Armed Forces, which requested an Oakley style pair
of glasses so field operatives wouldn't have to risk their lives whenever they opened a laptop in the field.
Beyond the work the
company has done to keep the wrong people out
of the phone, Apple claims that Face ID will let the right person in even in the dark, while wearing
glasses or a hat, and after growing a beard.
The Kyoto slow cold - drip is from a Japanese
company called Oji and contains a sequence
of five
glass globes and connecting filter and pot.
The
company hopes to sell
Glass in 2014 and developer versions
of the headset are already being peddled for $ 1,500.
(The
company has a library
of glass, plastic and metals to help them solve such conundrums.)
If and when Apple decides to take AR to the next level with a pair
of smart
glasses or something else, it'll be in a better position than
companies trying to win over developers.
In the corporate world, «there might be a little bit
of a
glass ceiling for introverts in non-tech
companies, but it's not insurmountable,» he says.
The
company says some bottles have a flaw that may cause a small piece
of glass to break off and possibly fall into the beer.
Goldman says that even splitting JPMorgan in two — dividing the investment bank from the traditional bank, returning the
company roughly to what was allowed before the
Glass Steagall Act was repealed in the early 2000s — would boost the overall value
of the current bank by 16 %.
In classic Twitter fashion, however, the rest
of the
company's quarterly news was much more
of a
glass - half - full,
glass - half - empty kind
of situation.
The
company that developed the scratch - resistant sapphire
glass that was left out
of Apple's new large - screen iPhones is in financial distress.
His fat - bottomed Burgundy Grand Cru
glass, launched in 1958, remains part
of the
company's catalogue, joined by a rose - shaped rosé
glass, an eyedropper - invoking vessel for sparkling wine, and on and on.
While today's consumers debate the merits
of wearable technology like smart watches and Google
Glass, tech
companies are already looking beyond that to the day when the tech disappears on — or even in — the human body.
The
company has reportedly been hustling on a stealthy smart
glasses project, and we now know that it recently became a member
of a Bluetooth special interest group that will allow it to build products using the wireless communications technology.
But while the Coastal brand was built on affordable contact lenses — a side
of the business that grew a modest 12 % last year — the
company has spent the past three years trying to get the world to buy its
glasses online too.
The
company acquired a Google
Glass - like startup called Vergence Labs back in 2014 and has since hired a bunch
of other eyewear and wearable technology experts.
The
company's purchase
of the Lightening trademark also protects «television sets, games, computer game programs, eye
glasses and eyeglass frames,» per Patently Apple.
Yet, the
company's segmented market information offers a telling detail: while Coastal's eyeglasses sales in North America are almost equal to its core contact lens business,
glasses account for a much smaller portion
of the firm's sales in places such as Sweden, Japan and Australia.
Thomas Alt, who joined Apple after the
company bought Metaio, an AR
company he was the CEO
of, is listed as an inventor on a
glasses patent assigned to Carl Zeiss.
Earlier this year, Amazon opened The Spheres, a group
of three
glass dome greenhouses near the
company's Seattle headquarters.
Going into 2013, there was an awful lot
of anticipation for Google
Glass, the search
company's camera - equipped eyeglasses, and smartwatches from the likes
of Samsung.
I like to joke that the best
companies are actually lubricated by alcohol because
of those after work beers and
glasses of wine that become so important to getting to know people.
California law requires that «employees shall be protected against the hazard
of walking through
glass by barriers or by conspicuous durable markings,» but the
company has not been subject to citations, according to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration data.
In general, «they seem to encounter «
glass walls» that keep them from venturing out
of big
companies or structured academic settings to launch their own firms at the same rate men do,» says Lesa Mitchell, a vice president with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundationdevoted to entrepreneurship.
The
company famous for its innovative design experienced at least two incidents
of men walking into
glass and causing injuries serious enough to warrant calls for local emergency services in the early days
of its new «spaceship» campus, according to documents MarketWatch obtained via a public - records request.