GOOGLE ENDS SALES OF GOOGLE GLASS

Jim Edwards

Google is ending or suspending sales of Google Glass, its smart glasses product, according to the BBC and the Financial Times. Glass was praised for being an innovative new device with a range of uses - particularly as an enterprise product for businesses - but criticized for its high price (about £1000 or $15000) and the way it made users look silly.

Former Nest CEO and Apple product creator Tony Fadell has been placed in charge of the Glass team to see if the product can be reborn in a new format. The BBC says Fadell's new team "will focus on 'future versions of Glass' with work carried out by a different division to before."

Google's web site for booking appointments at the Google Glass store in London has already become nonfunctional. Google did not immediately respond to a message requesting comment about the store's fate.

Try to book a visit there and you get this error message:

Last year, Business Insider visited the shop in King's Cross, one of only four places in the world where you could buy Google Glass (the others were Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City). Here is what we saw on our visit.