http://www.businessinsider.com/google-glass-sighting-caltrain-2012-8 We Just Spotted This Guy Wearing Google's Secret Internet Glasses On The Train Like It's No Big Deal… 
We just hopped off Caltrain, the Bay Area's commuter-rail system, at Palo Alto to share this with you.
When we got on the train at San Francisco, we spotted a man wearing a blue attachment on his glasses.
We instantly recognized it as Google's secretive Project Glass headsets, which display information feeds and capture photos and videos.
Why is this notable? At this year's Google I/O conference, Project Glass industrial designer Isabelle Olsson told us that only a "handful" of Googlers were allowed to wear them at present.
Cofounder Sergey Brin showed them off with an elaborate skydiving stunt.
The project, which showcases both Google's ability to process huge amounts of information and its increasingly large hardware ambitions, is said by some to be Google's future.
One of them is Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president in charge of social efforts including Google+.
Developers who attended I/O got to preorder a test version of the headsets for $1,500. But even those are not expected to ship until next year.
So who is this guy? Based on comparing our photo to other publicly available ones, we've tentatively identified him as Steve Lee, a six-year veteran of Google who leads product management for Google+. He's part of the team that launched Project Glass to the world in April.
Lee is the person who hooked Gundotra up with his pair, in fact.
We've asked Google for comment. Nothing back yet.
 Owen Thomas@owenthomas
5 Aug 12
We're not 100% sure, but we think we spotted @moneyball riding @caltrain wearing a Project Glass headset. lnkd.in/yCNE28
 Steve Lee@moneyball
@owenthomas @moneyball @caltrain next time stop and say hi :)
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/12/darpa-director-regina-dugan-leaves-defense-department-for-google/
Today brings some rather high-profile recruiting from Google: the director of DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, is leaving after three years of heading the agency to join Google at a “senior executive position.”
The news comes from a DARPA spokesman, who reports that Dugan felt she couldn’t refuse an offer from such an “innovative company.” She has worked at the agency on and off since 1996, and most recently has brought its budget and resources to bear on more practical problems like securing military networks. What role she will play at Google is unknown, but it is probably at least partially security-related.
Dugan was originally a researcher and program manager, and ascended to director status in 2009. Although she has encouraged innovation and some so-called “blue sky” projects (research that may stall or never see the light of day), she has also made efforts to fund what are, by DARPA standards, much more grounded projects. She has a few patents of her own in various areas of engineering and has published a book on engineering thermodynamics.
In November, she appealed to hackers and security experts to consider the problem of the military’s outdated data-protection methods. She seems to have intuited that while robot cheetahs, cornea displays, and hummingbird UAVs are all well and good, the physical battlefield isn’t the only real one. Cybersecurity is increasingly important even in real-world security; NASA just recently said it had been hacked thousands of times, possibly losing valuable and sensitive data to hackers in China.
Dugan is the subject of an investigation (described as one of many “regular audits” but an investigation nonetheless) related to contracts being awarded to a firm for which she was a co-founder, but the DARPA spokesman said the departure for Google was unrelated.
She is expected to make the final switch in the next few weeks, by which time we will perhaps have more information on her new role at Google.
http://mobile.news.com.au/technology/googles-secret-product-lab-revealed/story-e6frfro0-1226195170352
Google X, the secret product lab developing blue-sky projects
Search-engine giant Google has a secret product lab called Google X feverishly developing blue-sky projects such as space elevators, driverless cars and internet-enabled household devices, The New York Times reports.
The labs are reportedly run "as mysteriously as the CIA," according to unnamed sources familiar with the project, and housed in two facilities - one in California at the company's headquarters and one in an undisclosed location elsewhere in the country.
"They're pretty far out in front right now," Rodney Brooks, a professor emeritus at MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence lab and founder of Heartland Robotics, told theTimes. "But Google's not an ordinary company, so almost nothing applies."
The lab is reported to be filled with robotics engineers, in spite of the software engineers more commonly employed by the company.
But don't get your hopes up: The types of projects cited aren't the sort of thing the company will be releasing anytime soon.
Space elevators, for example, are a concept common in science fiction stories and movies. The idea is simple: Ditch the expensive, dangerous rockets for a giant platform that tows anything and everything up a tremendous cable to a platform orbiting at a fixed location around the planet.
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