Messaging app Snapchat has announced plans to release its first ever physical product: a pair of sunglasses with a built-in camera capable of recording up to 30 seconds of video at a time.
Snapchat creator Evan Spiegel described the product, called Spectacle, as a way to relive momentous experiences, like hiking with his supermodel fiancée, Miranda Kerr. "It was our first vacation, and we went to Big Sur for a day or two," he told The Wall Street Journal. "And when I got the footage back and watched it," Spiegel continued, "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."
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