As Google opens up its Google Glass Explorer programme to potentially all US residents, another new report claims that by 2018 consumers will be buying 10 million pairs of smart glasses a year.
That's a huge jump considering that fewer than 90,000 pairs are expected to ship in total in 2013. But Juniper Research — the company behind the report — believes that as soon as the devices can be demonstrated to improve consumers' lives and go beyond existing smartphone functionality, they will become mainstream tech objects of desire.