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Count on Google to deliver the future before you're even quite ready to receive it, and to deliver it via a team of skydivers with Sergey Brin in tow.

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CNET writer Stephen Shankland tries out a demo version of Google Glass at Google I/O.
CNET writer Stephen Shankland tries out a demo version of Google Glass at Google I/O. Sergey Brin

Count on Google to deliver the future before you're even quite ready to receive it, and to deliver it via a team of skydivers with Sergey Brin in tow. The company made clear its lofty ambitions for the Google Glass project -- the aptly named effort to put a smartphone's brains in a pair of interactive spectacles -- with an unprecedented press event at Google I/O in June.

Google says it wants Google Glass to help users interact with the virtual world without distracting them from the real world. The tech community responded with excitement, poring over and mad tweeting Google's online demo of the futuristic glasses, which won't come to market until 2014.

For more on this story, see Stephen Shankland's story "How Google is becoming an extension of your brain."

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