One 26-year-old Explorer came up with an even better upside: he planned to auction off his pair of Glass on eBay to pay down his student loans.

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The pair played behind glass at one of Russia's top museums, the State Tretyakov Gallery, watched by hundreds of chess fans.

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He expects that Google Glass, iWatch, and their competitors are the next generation of wearable computing, and he plans on using his pair of Google Glass to help conceptualize how his app might work.

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Artifacts such as a pair of Harry Houdini's handcuffs lie in glass cases.

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To underscore the point, after the demo the pair showed a video of a blender grinding up a Glass.

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In the bar's seating area, patrons are rather eccentrically greeted by a stuffed giraffe in one corner and a pair of Manolo Blahniks, mounted like a hunting trophy in a glass box.

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Google Glass (note, not glasses) looks like a fairly normal pair of eyewear.

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Announced last year, Google Glass is an augmented-reality headset that looks like a thin pair of eyeglasses and can be controlled by voice commands.

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Last Jan. 20, I spotted a guy on the New York City subway wearing what looked like Google Glass, which at the time was a mysterious new augmented-reality gadget that looked like a pair of glasses and supposedly put hands-free smartphone tech literally in front of your eyes.

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