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company formerly known as snapchat launched its first ever hardware product this week I'm Shauna came to the verge and these are the spectacles the spectacles are pretty simple they're just sunglasses with a camera inside the camera sits right up here in the corner of the sunglasses and then there's a button over here on the left side that lets you trigger to record video a little light will spin around to let people know that you're recording and then those videos get sent over Bluetooth to your phone so you can send them to your friends on snapchat or post them to your stories now spectacles lasts about a day with minimal use but stop selling them with a pretty neat charging case that offers for more full charges all you have to do is take the glasses off fold them up throw them in the case and they magnetically lock into the charger and charge while you bring the case around there's a ring of lights on the side of the case to show you how much charge is left in there and you can double tap the glasses to see how much battery is left in them but it's kind of finicky to pull it off every time so the good thing is you can also see the battery level in the app now those lights on the glasses are actually a pretty important part of the equation with spectacles because when you tap to record a video they light up and spin in a circle to let everybody know that you're filming snap did this to make sure that everybody knows that you made a choice to start recording it makes it a more public thing and it helps break down some of the awkwardness that can happen when you have a device like this on your face now pairing spectacles to your phone is actually pretty easy all you do is throw the glasses on open up snapchat and inside the app there's a code that you just point the glasses at and hit record it'll start you through that pairing process pretty easily and then once you're there it'll send all the videos you record to your phone into the memory section of the app so it's not posting them automatically it gives you the choice over posting the ones that you want to send out to your friends or putting stories or do whatever you want with now you can also send HD versions of those videos over to your phone because there's a Wi-Fi chip in these glasses as well but it takes a lot longer to transfer those files and it's not really that much better-looking than the ones that are automatically being sent over to your phone but what's important to know about the video that these glasses take is that they're not like the vertical or horizontal video we're used to these glasses record circular videos not 360-degree videos kind of like VR but they actually record them in a circular format and the reason for that is that when you're viewing videos that were shot on spectacles in snapchat you can actually rotate your phone and see more of the video than if it was just shot vertically or horizontally snapping selling spectacles for a hundred and thirty dollars but they're only selling them in vending machines that are showing up around the country and they're being very secretive about when and where those will appear so if you're really walkies you're gonna have to keep an eye on their website to find out when a vending machine might show up in view and that was part of the plan all along when spectacles ever since Snap announced them they said it was going to be a very limited release kind of product and that's probably a good thing for now because it's a very new kind of idea and it's not really clear how we're going to use them or how people are going to react to them we'll have more thoughts on all that in a full review so until then keep it locked to the verge comm and youtube.com slash converge and all you have to do is tap and it'll show you you have them on all you have well double tap on the side on the side it'll show you how much is left yeah we have to really zap it you just tap on the side I was trying to rush cause he's comin in