As for the liquid lens, Nippon Electric Glass' version uses low-power electric field to control its liquid crystal molecular orientation, thus changing the focal point.

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The company said the screen on its Glass headset actually sits above the wearer's normal field of vision, not unlike a car's sun visor, and is meant for quick glances, not prolonged viewing.

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This kind of test may even find its way in an augmented-reality device like Google Glass by tracking eye movements as an image moves across the field of view, as a recently uncovered patent suggests.

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Google Glass is the wearable computing device that provides Internet content to the field of vision, along with photos, videos and speech-to-text technology.

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Minutes later, the hopes of Oregon's pyrotechnic offense died at the simplest of plays: a 41-yard Alejandro Maldonado field goal that bonked the left upright like a bird into a glass door.

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In all these instances if Google can liberate my field of view and give me a portable high resolution screen, I will buy Glass.

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