He’s a self-made tech mogul worth billions, but that didn’t stop Google co-founder Sergey Brin from riding the New York City subway this weekend. Brin, 39, who ranks No. 20 on Forbes’ annual list of most powerful people, may have blended in on the downtown-bound No. 3 train in his jeans and pullover were it not for his futuristic, high-tech glasses.

A tech buff said he spotted Brin, who now heads up special projects for Google, riding the subway wearing a prototype of the much-buzzed about glasses from Google's Project Glass, which are promised to overlay digital information on the physical world.

"Yeeeah… I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train," Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," tweeted with a photo of Brin in the glasses. “Nice guy.

Brin was wearing - or presumably testing - the glasses, which are billed as searching the Internet and showing you anything you need, right in front of your eyes, from maps of where you are to the weather forecast if you look up. You can connect the glasses to a phone via Bluetooth and use the phone's 3G or 4G connection. There's also a camera on the front that can take photos of whatever you are seeing; you can share the photos instantly.

Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast," said he was the first to spot Brin.
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Brin last publicly showed off the glasses in June at Google's I/O conference. He presided at the Moscone Center in San Francisco as sky divers, who were also wearing the glasses, jumped out of a plane above and streamed live video from their glasses right to a screen on stage at the conference.

At the end of the month Google will hold an event for software developers. The developers' version of the glasses, which cost $1,500, are expected to be available to software makers later this year.

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Dats d white mentality 4 u;simplicity. Don't expect such from a Nigerian of such timber, wood, plastic, metal n calibre. Well its a choice sha so no biggie.

That's one aspect of white man's mentality , I love... Simplicity.. That's what keeps me going in life.

yea so tru....d day a professsor treked frm his home to lasu it was pulished in the news papeer as a surprising thing.
lmao...africans wn't kill person abeg wid our primitive mentality

Dem go kidnap am 4 9ja if e try am.

Mr Brin sure knows how to pull a simple but effective publicity stunt. He's def'nly doing good at marketing the Google Smart Goggle.

Bill Gates also flew commercial all the time when he was a billionaire before Microsoft bought private jets! true Story

vinderbilt: Bill Gates also[b] flew commercial all the time when he was a billionaire[/b] before Microsoft bought private jets! true Story

You don't mean it? That is almost sacrilege for Nigerian elites.

I saw Dangote inside a danfo the other day.

Where the train to ride seff for naija?

J12: I saw Dangote inside a danfo the other day.

Me i see am for train wey de go kano from lagos.

Who no want make them talk say him convoy long pass GEJ own?

[size=25pt]if he was in nIGERIA he would have been kidnapped[/size] ...

bigfat01: [size=25pt]if he was in nIGERIA he would have been kidnapped[/size] ...

I tell you,hahahahaha.

Omo, so the guy in that pic is swiming in moni! Chai!!

Ok

i know him for dat.

Barrack obama dey call me for advice!!

So it's time for Mr Adenuga(Glo CEO)to take a danfo ride from CMS to Ojuelegba. Seems like frying a frog....

Me i saw jonalooter ridding bicycle from Abuja to lagos.

J12: I saw Dangote inside a danfo the other day.

is not Dangote u saw, may be u saw Dangata, because they look alike.

Before you start glorifying that white mogul, have a deep comprehension of the piece posted by the OP- he is undoubtedly undergoing a research experiment, and probably that wass the best environment( dependent variable) for him to perform such experiment in order to get a better result of his 'invention'.

WHitey mentality for you

Okay

I once worked with Jimoh Ibrahim. You cannot stand on the staircase while he is passing being a staff. You must disappear back to where you are coming from he is like a demi god. Can someone like that ever share a cab with another person not to talk of public transit.

In other words, Dangote & Adenuga should tamo molue... GEJ is at fault for this rubbish

Cold faya: Dats d white mentality 4 u;simplicity. Don't expect such from a Nigerian of such timber, wood, plastic, metal n calibre. Well its a choice sha so no biggie.

You dey talk as of you are holy....No black man can do that. We blacks like yo bragg alot especially if we got little change.

maninmood: Before you start glorifying that white mogul, have a deep comprehension of the piece posted by the OP- he is undoubtedly undergoing a research experiment, and probably that wass the best environment( dependent variable) for him to perform such experiment in order to get a better result of his 'invention'.

Oga even if danglote was experimenting anything and a public transport was the best place to get his results, he will not do it...instead him go send person to go do am for am...it's just their mentality, you can't change it

maninmood: Before you start glorifying that white mogul, have a deep comprehension of the piece posted by the OP- he is undoubtedly undergoing a research experiment, and probably that wass the best environment( dependent variable) for him to perform such experiment in order to get a better result of his 'invention'.

Oga even if dangote was experimenting anything and a public transport was the best place to get his results, he will not do it...instead him go send person to go do am for am...it's just their mentality, you can't change it

A tech buff said he spotted Brin, who now heads up special projects for Google, riding the subway wearing a prototype of the much-buzzed about glasses from Google's Project Glass, which are promised to overlay digital information on the physical world.

He just happened to be wearing the prototype of the much buzzed about glasses from Google's Project Glass when he was "caught" taking the subway, eh?

GAR3TH: So whats the big deal? There are plenty of millionaires, CEOs, cooperate tycoons, etc that ride the NYC subway everyday.

BIGMANISM does not exist in America, its only in Nigeria you will find BIGMANISM.

Shut up.... Who tell you say big man craze nor dey america.

you dey go out at all?