He’s a self-made tech mogul worth
billions, but that didn’t stop Google
co-founder Sergey Brin from riding
the New York City subway this
weekend. Brin, 39, who ranks No. 20
on Forbes’ annual list of most
powerful people, may have blended
in on the downtown-bound No. 3
train in his jeans and pullover were it
not for his futuristic, high-tech
glasses .

A tech buff said he spotted Brin, who
now heads up special projects for
Google, riding the subway wearing a
prototype of the much-buzzed about
glasses from Google's Project Glass ,
which are promised to overlay digital
information on the physical world.
"Yeeeah… I just had a brief
conversation with the most powerful
man in the world. On the downtown
3 train," Noah Zerkin, a self-
proclaimed "wearable computing
and augmented reality enthusiast,"
tweeted with a photo of Brin in the
glasses. “Nice guy.

Brin was wearing - or presumably
testing - the glasses, which are billed
as searching the Internet and
showing you anything you need,
right in front of your eyes, from maps
of where you are to the weather
forecast if you look up. You can
connect the glasses to a phone via
Bluetooth and use the phone's 3G or
4G connection. There's also a camera
on the front that can take photos of
whatever you are seeing; you can
share the photos instantly.

Noah Zerkin, a self-proclaimed
"wearable computing and
augmented reality enthusiast," said
he was the first to spot Brin.