Snapchat's new sunglasses will make sure nothing is left unrecorded

2 months ago

Want to livestream your life to your friends and fans with even more ease? Snapchat is here to help with the upcoming launch of sunglasses with a built-in video camera.

The gadget has a refreshingly non-techy name: “Spectacles”. It’s expected to be available before the end of the year for around £100.

It will record 10 second clips on a tiny integrated video camera which are then transferred directly to the Snapchat app via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

The camera has a wider lens than typical smartphones – with a 115 degree angle – and records circular video akin to human vision. Phew – this will make sure that no detail of your life is left unrecorded.

Snapchat also announced that it is renaming the company to Snap Inc as it develops further products.

Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap Inc, said the device would be rolled out slowly. “It’s about us figuring out if it fits into people’s lives and seeing how they like it,” he told the Wall Street Journal.

He also told the paper that he tested a prototype while on holiday with his supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr.

“It was our first vacation, and we went to Big Sur for a day or two. We were walking through the woods, stepping over logs, looking up at the beautiful trees. And when I got the footage back and watched it, I could see my own memory, through my own eyes – it was unbelievable.

“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come to feeling like I was there again.”