O'Brien, Daniel (2000). SF:UK: How British Science Fiction Changed the World. London: Reynolds & Hearn. p.83. ISBN 978-1-903111-16-1. Accordingly, Thunderbird and TCL make the new device sound like a blend of features from the Facebook Ray-Bans and Xiaomi's own concept Smart Glasses. They do integrate a camera - obtrusively found on the nose-piece - and touch controls on the outside of the ear-hooks to interact with the glasses and the content, phone-like apps, smart- home and - car controls they are rated to sync with.

Pierce, Andrew (30 July 2008). "Profile of Foreign Secretary David Miliband". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 4 March 2014. This involves the development of an in-house wave-guide, as well as a careful choice of high refractive index glass, to end up with a product that is as compact, efficient and power-efficient as possible. TCL and Thunderbird have yet to outline a release for the Smart Glasses Pioneer Version, although they are touted as mass-production and consumer-ready at this stage. Wilson, Giles (19 October 2004). "Ad Breakdown: Too Brainy By Half?". BBC News Magazine. BBC. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012 . Retrieved 4 March 2014. Proudly serving the High Desert and Inland Empire since 1960. We are a full service glass shop for all your Home, Auto, and Business needs. If you need Glass Repair in Hesperia, Apple Valley or Victorville we can help.The audio system of Thunderbird Air 1S has also been comprehensively upgraded with a stroke of 0.5 mm for the first time. Meanwhile, Thunderbird Innovation takes a large number of human ear models as samples, and finely adjusts the opening position of the speaker to bring the sound closer to the ear. a b " Thunderbirds Creator Gerry Anderson 'A Creative Genius' ". BBC News Online. BBC. 27 December 2012. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013 . Retrieved 3 March 2014. Pang, Alex (2004). Thunderbird: the movie: x-ray cross-sections. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.23. ISBN 0-19-911249-5. OCLC 56436621. Thunderbird, an emerging electronics company " incubated" by TCL, has announced its first possibly market-ready AR product, the Smart Glasses Pioneer Version. This pair of spectacles is, as the name suggests, the kind of 'true' smart glasses that integrate a working, partially transparent display capable of overlaying a mixed-reality display over the wearer's real-world surroundings. David Miliband MP: You Ask The Questions". The Independent. London: Independent Print. 29 January 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014 . Retrieved 4 March 2014.

a b c d e f g Anderson, Sylvia (1991). Yes, M'Lady. London: Smith Gryphon. p.25. ISBN 978-1-856850-11-7.The demo also shows that the glasses have a built-in camera (which sits on the bridge of the nose). You can snap photos, which automatically get transferred to your phone. There are no details about the camera or indeed the glasses themselves in this first announcement. The Thunderbird Smart Glasses Pioneer Version use holographic light waveguide and full-color MicroLED display technology, through Thunderbird Innovation’s self-developed light wave coupling analysis optimization algorithm and unique full-color micro display engine, taking into account thin and light and high bright full-color display, becoming the industry’s first binocular full-color MicroLED holographic light waveguide AR glasses. This sets them apart from Xiaomi’s concept smart glasses, which only featured a monochrome display also using micro-LED. In both cases the LEDs are tiny, just 4 µm in size, but TCL’s team developed a proprietary algorithm that enables the Thunderbird glasses to show a full-color image.