Can’t wait for Google’s Project Glass? A company called Vergence Labs has some eyewear that just might tide you over. 

The company has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 for what they claim are the world’s first electric-powered sunglasses.The basic pair of sunglasses are capable of turning from clear spectacles to shades with the flick of a switch. More importantly, the specs have a 720p video camera on the bridge of the frames, allowing them to record a user’s-eye view to a microSD card.

“This will effectively ‘reveal reality’ and in the process will increase human learning, bio-metric understanding, and raise the overall level of human empathy across the world so that everyone is able to see things more directly from the validity of other people’s point of view,” says Vergence on their Kickstarter page.    

The company, which is made up of the ambitious duo, Erick Miller and Jon Rodriguez, hope users will upload videos they take to their future website, YouGen.Tv – a video-sharing site which can connect with social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Also, they are discussing the idea of adding Wi-Fi to the device in order to live stream video.

The question on the mind of tech geeks, though, is whether or not the team will deliver the product in time. The Kickstarter campaign estimates that the sunglasses are due to ship before Christmas of this year which gives Vergence just over seven months to perfect something that appears to still be an early prototype. 

Check out the Kickstarter campaign video below, and decide for yourself if their ideas could be implemented by December.   

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-reality-with-computing-enabled-eyewear

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