Friday, April 26, 2013

Post 24: Japanese mobile boss claims he's already patented the tech inside Google Glass Mobile

Read here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/10/softbank-ceo-vs-google-glass/

Here's a funny one! One of Japan's richest men, claims he's patented Google Glass already.

Lets get things straight, he's got an army of lawyers to call, and his name is Masayoshi Son, a billionaire and CEO of SoftBank. In 2010, there was in fact a patent that is similar but not identical to Google's. In Google's, one's own words are translated with Google specs. In his, he says that they're translation glasses with captions.

You can view the Glass's promo video here: Project Glass promo video.

So how is this guy so rich? He sold a translation device patent to Sharp for $1 mill.

So what are your thoughts on this? Real or fraud?

1 comment:

  1. Engadget seems to be focusing more on patents lately, thanks for the share.

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