Samsung's smart glasses shown in person with a 9-hour battery

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The Verge got hands-on with Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, revealing two designs and first specs including 9-hour battery life, with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker as frame partners. Battery life has been the hard constraint on always-on assistant wearables — 9 hours is a full working day. The frame-brand partnerships signal Samsung learned from Google Glass that the fashion problem outranks the spec sheet.