Eric Schmidt: Google Glass scheduled for 2014

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In an interview with the BBC Eric Schmidt indicated that Google Glass would not be commercially released to the public until 2014.
Despite Google co-founder Sergey Brin saying that he hoped the Glass would drop late this year, and initial rumours that the commercial introduction of Google Glass wasn’t to be expected until  2015, Schmidt seemed confident that Glass would officially appear  in early 2014.
“Well, the developers are beginning now. It would be fair to say that there will be thousands of these in use by developers over the next months and based on their feedback we’ll make some product changes and it’s probably a year-ish away,” he said.

Although the time frame is non-specific it looks like the only people who get to play with wearable tech this year are developers and the Google Explorers. The Explorers are the 8000 lucky winners of the first Google Glass, although winners still had to pay $1500 (€1155) for their prizes. However, it looks like the competition was not totally random, with much of the winners having thousands of Twitter followers already or being blatantly famous, Neil Patrick Harris and Newt Gingrich were among the celebrities who won the “lottery.”
The 8000 Explorer prototypes were manufactured at a Foxconn factory in California but if Google wants to reduce the price of the Glass from $1500 they’ll have to move production to somewhere less expensive and more slave friendly. According to The New York Times, Google were aiming for an $200-600 price tag for glass which is unlikely if they keep production within the US.
When the BBC asked Schmidt about the issue of privacy caused by wearable tech he responded that the onus would be on society to develop a new structure of social etiquette
“In general, these kinds of body wearable devices will bring in a whole bunch of such concerns and the fact of the matter is we’ll have to develop some new social etiquette. It’s obviously not appropriate to wear these glasses in situations where recording is not correct. And indeed you have already these sorts of problems with phones,” he told the BBC.