Project Glass [3], the most visible thing to come out of Google's top hush-hush X Lab [4], is being given the once-over by the F.C.C. [5], alongside its wireless network application of last week [6]. And the filing reveals a few more choice and juicy morsels for those of us who eat techflakes for breakfast, then brush our teeth with techpaste before tech-ing the train to work, where we write about tech. So, Google Glass ingredients here:

• Wi-FI
• 4.0 Low-Energy Bluetooth
• USB charger/Barrel connector
• Vibrating element that pipes audio "via contact with the user's head."
• And that's it!

The Verge is reporting [7] said vibrating element is probably bone-conduction speakers, something that Google has already filed a patent for--find it under "wearable computing device" with bone-conduction speakers.

The brainchild of Sergey Brin, who's been riding the subway in a pair [8], these oh-so-much-more-than-AR glasses have the fashion world transfixed, turning models [9] and designers [10] into geeks and, as Austin Carr points out, perhaps the key to Google's adventures in TV-land [11]. The company originally said that Project Glass would be available to non Google [12] employees some time at the beginning of 2013. Well, last time I looked it was the beginning of 2013 *slaps forehead in realization* so that must mean we should be getting glass any moment... now!

Sadly, it doesn't work like that. While firms such as Apple [13] manage to jump through all the F.C.C. in record time--probably because, being such perfectionists--don't expect every single product to fly through the commission's rigorous testing procedure. Just type "how long is a piece of string [14]" into Google and see what comes out.

[Image by Flickr user Thomas Hawk [15]]