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it's wednesday june twenty seventh I'm ellis hamburger and you're about to experience 90 seconds on the verge today it was day one of Google's IO conference where the first thing they announced was the Nexus 7 7 inch tablet from Asus it's a pretty powerful device but at 199 it's more targeted at the Kindle Fire than at the iPad the Nexus 7 is the first device to launch with Android 4.1 jelly bean the best feature of jelly bean is Google now which is kind of like a creepy personal assistant which uses everything google knows about you if your location data what you're interested in and where you're going to give you information about sports scores traffic routes flights and of course notify precrime division if you're about to commit murder google also announced the Nexus Q a social media streamer device that lets android devices in the room play music or videos from google play into your home entertainment system the Nexus Q only works with Android devices only works with Google Play content and at 299 it's three times the price of an Apple TV half the functionality of google TV but by far the craziest thing today is google glass which google demoed using guys jumping out of planes BMX bike and doing backflips and finally making their way on this stage to high-five sergey brin you can pre-order google glasses today assuming your developer and you're at Google IO n you have fifteen hundred dollars to spare even then you're gonna have to wait a year or more to get your hands on it that's it for today's top stories but tune in tomorrow for 21 tips on how to shake that hypersleep hangover