Huffington Magazine Issue 10 | Page 54

A BEAUTIFUL MIND I figured if we could bridge the gap between cultures with images, that would not be a bad thing to do.” Two years ago, Thrun assembled a team of Google X engineers and tasked them with another assignment, one also rooted in the future: to reinvent the computer. The result is Project Glass, a.k.a. Google Glasses, an endeavor Thrun makes a point of asking me to note is now being led by his colleague Babak Parviz. Thrun hands me a pair of the “glasses,” which will be available for $1500 to a limited group of tech industry insiders in early 2013