Google billionaire seen riding the subway

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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.

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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[Growled Member]

That would have made my day too. Mot many times in life you get to meet someone like that.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

If I lived in NYC I would take it as well.

[mudslag]

Even the devil rides the subway

[Richteralan]

Don't know why this is news.

Billy Strayhorn also took the subway to meet with Duke Ellington.

[FloatingFatMan]

Even rich people get stuck in NYC's traffic.

[Hum]

I would have hit him up for a loan. :p

[neufuse Veteran]

If I was super rich, I'd think I'd WANT to do things normal people do, just to feel normal

[MikeChipshop Member]

Man knows the quickest route round any city is the underground!

[_neutrino Veteran]

in the current state the glasses are nearly useless and very ugly though :(

[FloatingFatMan]

in the current state the glasses are nearly useless and very ugly though :(

What do you mean, in their current state? They're working perfectly!

[Growled Member]

I would have hit him up for a loan. :p

I would have hit him up for his glasses.