Google announced its new "Glass Explorer" program, giving a select few an opportunity to pre-order Google Glass headsets.

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This is a problem not only for the Explorer program, but for the whole Glass project itself.

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These hackathons are just for developers in the Explorer program and we're calling them the Glass Foundry.

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