Smart glasses Amazon is working on its first wearable device — smart glasses that would connect to Alexa, the company's voice assistant. The Financial Times reported that the wearable would work with a smartphone connection to bring up Alexa at any time, anywhere.

Meant to look like regular eyeglasses, the wearable device would allow users to hear Alexa without headphones. Instead, the device would capture audio through sound vibration that travels along the facial bones to the ear, called bone conduction. (This is similar to the tech proposed by Sgnl, a Kickstarter campaign seven months late to its proposed delivery.)

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Wearable glasses are not a new idea. Spectacles, Snapchat's recording glasses, and Google Glass are just two devices that have integrated connected gadgetry into an eyeglass package. While many people wear glasses, the question will be whether they'll want to put on a pair of specs just to talk to Alexa.

Although Amazon has not made any formal announcement, the device could be launched as early as this year. Amazon is on a tear, pushing out new products that connect to its smart assistant, launching the Echo Show and Dash Wand already in 2017. Having Alexa speak directly in your ear? That may be an opportunity too good for this giant e-tailer to pass up.

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