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Less than a year after taking over Snaplab, Mark Randall is leaving Snap Inc, —to start his own company. Randall, who joined Snap in 2016 to head up its Spectacles project, announced his departure in an internal memo obtained by Cheddar . It"s the latest shake-up for the Specs division, which saw layoffs last year, and for the company at large, which has struggled to impress Wall Street since going public last year. [caption id="attachment_12183" align="alignnone" width="1200"]                                       Mark Randall is leaving Snap two years later [/caption] Randall was elevated to vice president of hardware and took over Snaplab from Steve Horowitz in September 2017. A dozen people were also laid off from the division around that time, most of whom worked in marketing. The hardware team, whose efforts up to now have mostly consisted of Spectacles, has been realigned under Sn...

The second generation of Snap Inc.’s Spectacles, released in late April , is now available for purchase via ecommerce giant Amazon. Snap Inc.’s new hands-free camera with the ability to capture photos—the first release only captured videos—quicker transfer of HD content via Wi-Fi, water-resistant construction, a sleeker frame and more options for frame colours and lens shades First-gen Spectacles were sold exclusively through novel pop-up vending machines before being sold online , but second-gen Specs launched on Spectacles․com before selling out. Now Snapchat is making its new smart glasses easier to buy than ever with availability on Amazon.com . The new model joins the cheaper and less capable first-gen edition on Amazon, so be careful which version you order. [caption id="attachment_11751" align="aligncenter" width="634"] The three new colors: "Onyx Moonlight," "Sapphire Twilight" and "Ruby Daybreak [/caption] The second-gen S...

Spectacles version 2.0 is here Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, unveiled a new version of its  smart sunglasses , which records bursts of videos. It is a slightly smaller, water-resistant pair of sunglasses. The company released the first version in 2016 in stand-alone vending machines called Snapbots. Over 220,000 were sold, though many of them didn"t make it off the shelf. The new Spectacles look incredibly similar to Snap’s original glasses- Snap chat version 1.0- and are sold through vending machines at launch. You can’t buy the new pair at a vending machine stand— only at Snapchat’s own website, Spectacles.com — but they offer a few new features that the original pair never had. Here"s a quick overview of the features: You can take pictures with the new Spectacles. The original version only recorded video. That"s a plus. The new Spectacles are water-resistant up to 1 meter deep and for about 30 minutes at a time, according to a spokespe...