Glasses

Could a new glass make beer taste better? Two brewers on opposite sides of the United States have partnered to produce a glass they say will amplify and balance “even the hoppiest of IPAs.” Manufactured by German glassware company Spiegelau , the glass was designed with input from Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., from Chico, Calif., and is available for $9. At least one beer enthusiast says...

Dear Google Guys: I am writing to you because I would very much like to be a Google “Glass Explorer.” I read about your latest venture, Google Glass, on Wednesday on the Internet and, well, I was so excited that I'm rushing to send in my application. First off, let me just say that I love the Google. My wife and I look up stuff all the time on the Google, and we don't argue nearly as much now about such things as whether driving to Boston from California takes the same amount of time as driving from California to St. Petersburg, Fla.    And the story said applicants must live in the U.S. and be at least 18 to enter: Bingo on both counts!

Wanting to avoid making users look ridiculous, Google is seeking the help of an e-commerce start-up that sells trendy glasses to design Glass, the Silicon Valley company's upcoming smartphone-like glasses. Google is in talks with Warby Parker to help it "design more fashionable frames" for Glass, according to a New York Times report Thursday that cites unnamed sources. News of the Warby Parker relationship to Glass comes a day after Google opened a competition to select the first people who can buy the smart-glasses.

Google is ready to let more people try out its Glass project, but becoming an early adopter won't come easy or cheap. The Silicon Valley company began taking 50-word Google+ and Twitter applications from users who want to become "Glass Explorers" and try out Google Glass: eyeglasses with small screens attached to give them smartphone-like capabilities. Users who apply must include the hashtag "#ifihadglass" and explain what they'd do with the nifty gadget. If 50 words aren't enough, Google is also letting users include up to five pictures and a 15-second video.

Kellogg's is voluntarily recalling some packages of its Special K Red Berries cereal because the boxes might contain fragments of glass, according to an announcement from the company . The recall covers certain 11.2-ounce, 22.4-ounce and 37-ounce boxes sold in the U.S. “Please check any packages you have in your home and if your package matches the following criteria, please do not eat the product and contact us for a replacement coupon,” the...

MOSCOW - Without warning, a celestial object that NASA described as a "tiny asteroid" streaked above Russia's Ural Mountains early Friday before exploding, creating a shock wave that rattled buildings, shattered glass and injured hundreds of people. Many witnesses in Chelyabinsk said they saw a white trail across the sky and a bright flash and heard a loud explosion seconds before buildings in the eastern part of the city were jolted. Scientists said it was the largest such event in more than a century, since a blast that leveled 800 square miles of forest in 1908, the so-called Tunguska event, also in Siberia.

Beer drinkers, will your India Pale Ales taste better from a glass made just for IPAs? German glassware maker Spiegelau is banking on it and has collaborated with breweries Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada to create a glass specifically for India pale ales. Dogfish Head brewer Sam Calagione and Sierra Nevada's Ken Grossman, in a series of design and tasting sessions, helped choose a single glass that "showcases varying aromatic profiles for the American 'hop forward'" IPA beer, says Spiegelau in an announcement.

Shatter a basketball backboard in college or the NBA and you'll probably end up on the evening's ESPN highlight reel. But all Jacob Valline got was a really bad headache and a nasty knot on his forehead. That's because Valline's feat was cracking shatterproof glass while being held in a jail cell in Elko, Nev. Elko County Sheriff Jim Pitts told the Los Angeles Times that the 29-year-old Valline continually bashed his head into an Elko County Jail holding cell's glass until it broke.

Bosko Magana, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Dolores Mission School in Boyle Heights, began noticing about a year ago that her world was getting a little fuzzy around the edges. But eyeglasses didn't fit into the family budget. Joanna Hernandez, 13, already had glasses, but for the last several months, they weren't strong enough. "I couldn't see the board very well," she said. Eugene Flores, 12, began noticing a year ago that when he looked to the right, "My eyes would take time to adjust.

[This post has been upated.] Can't get to Madrid for the world premiere of Philip Glass' Walt Disney Opera? "The Perfect American," a fictionalized account of Disney's final days, will be broadcast live online on Wednesday, with the video available for free up to three months after. "The Perfect American" will be streamed on medici.tv starting at 11 a.m. Pacific time on Wednesday. Viewing the live webcast is free; registration is required for viewing the archived video, according to a spokeswoman.