The first step to Intel Glass? Intel acquires Recon Instruments

It became known about the acquisition of Intel company Recon Instruments . A small Canadian team, which employs only 75 people, has managed to accomplish the impossible: bypassing Google in the market of “smart points” in sales of products. Recon specializes in sports cyber equipment: in its portfolio, Snow has a mega-helmet for mountain skiers and Jet (at KDPV) glasses for runners and cyclists. What are they like? Let's say the Jet includes a central processor, a GPS receiver, an accelerometer, an altimeter, a barometer and a compass; It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces, an HD-resolution camera and a display similar in size to a 30-inch panel installed at a distance of 2 meters.
This transaction, for all of its financial smallness from the point of view of Intel, in the future may mean a lot to the company. Employees of Recon, which will join the division of Intel, engaged in the development of wearable electronics (wearables) may well be thrown to create something big and fundamentally new for the company. And it will be logical if this “something” turns out to be points.