Google‘s high-tech glasses will be manufactured in California, according to multiple reports, in the latest example of an American tech company choosing to build one of its products in the United States.
Google’s highly touted computerized spectacles, known as Google Glass, will be assembled by Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese industrial giant that builds many of Apple‘s products, at a plant in Santa Clara, California, according to reports in the Financial Times and Bloomberg.
Google’s highly touted computerized spectacles, known as Google Glass, will be manufactured in California, according to multiple reports, in the latest example of an American tech company choosing to build one of its products in the United States. Google Glass will be assembled by Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese industrial giant that builds many of Apple‘s products, at a plant in Santa Clara, California, according to reports in the Financial Times and Bloomberg.
It is noted that President Obama has called for tech companies to increase U.S.-based manufacturing, and although there are signs of an uptick, there remains considerable debate about whether this is a long-term trend or a short-term byproduct of the U.S. economic recovery.
Foxconn, which already operates plants in Texas and Indiana through a subsidiary, has said it wants to increase its operations in the U.S. in response to the growing appetite for “Made in the USA” products. “We are looking at doing more manufacturing in the U.S. because, in general, customers want more to be done there,” a Foxconn spokesman told Bloomberg recently.
This week in April 2013, Google announced plans to invite 8,000 users to test Google Glass, which have already been available to developers for $1,500, and are expected to hit stores later this year or early next year. The device is the most high-profile example of the latest Silicon Valley trend: wearable computing. For its part, Apple is rumored to be developing a computerized watch product, but unlike Google Glass, no one has seen the device in public.
– kidsfreesouls news desk
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