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ok glass if you're looking for a way to spend your tax refund google has an idea on april fifteenth starting at nine a.m. eastern a limited supply of Google glass will be available for purchase to any adult in the US with fifteen hundred dollars to spare it looks like Google is going to be releasing a public version to everybody at large later this year and that they're going to want to have updated hardware for them so they're probably getting rid of these Explorer headsets while they can google introduced the first edition of glass dubbed Explorer about a year ago and initially restricted its sale to select groups like app developers currently Google glass is being explored for a wide variety of uses these include medical use cases orts teams first responders police and fire departments the device functions like a smartphone letting you read emails navigate with maps and search the web users can also take pictures and video which has led to privacy concerns and etiquette questions with glass it's really challenging to sort of figure out when it's appropriate to use when it's inappropriate to use a recent study showed that seventy two percent of Americans are not interested in buying glass there's a lot more things that I want to do with fifteen hundred dollars then get on the internet I already have a smartphone Google is expected to release an updated version of glass to the general public later this year in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News