Focals are the best smart glasses to hit the market. They're from a company called North, which got backing from Amazon, Intel and others. CNBC's Adam Isaak tried them out.
Canadian company North recently released a $600 pair of smart glasses called Focals. The company, previously known as Thalmic Labs,The basic idea is that they're glasses with a tiny projector in one of their arms.
The projector beams an image onto a circular film on the right lens, which bounces it back into your eyeball. As a result, even though there's technically no screen, you see an image. Focals can show you simple alerts like incoming messages, the time and weather, but they have limited capabilities beyond that. You control the glasses with a small joystick on a plastic ring worn on your finger.
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