Is This Google FCC Filing a New Version of Google Glass?

And here you thought Google Glass was over and done with. Hardly. Google has been looking to reinvent its famed headware, not scrap it entirely, and we now have some new details about what it might be cooking up over in Mountain View, California.

According to a report from Droid Life, Google has submitted a mysterious filing to the Federal Communications Commission, and the details of the unnamed product sure sound like they could be some new variant of Google Glass.

If you were expecting Google to flat out say that said device is Google Glass v2, then you're much too hopeful. Instead, Google describes the device as this: "BLUETOOTH & DTS/UNII a/b/g/n/ac," with the model name "GG1." We can't think of anything else in Google's product lineup, past or future, that "GG" would apply to—other than Google Glass, it is.

Of course, Google can call something whatever it wants, and that doesn't mean that has anything to do with whatever the product actually is. The "GG1" label might be a misnomer, designed to throw people off the trail from whatever Google is actually submitting to the FCC. That's not the only bit of evidence, however.

According to the FCC submission, said mystery device supports Wi-Fi all the way up to 802.11ac (over both the 2.4 and 5GHz bands), as well as Bluetooth LE. It uses rechargeable batteries that can't be replaced, and it comes with both a charger for the device as well as a USB cable for "charging and data transfer" when connected to a desktop PC or laptop.

The FCC label that Google plans to use for said device isn't going to be a standard physical label, either. Google will instead use an e-label, buried somewhere in said device's settings menu, that you have to scroll left and right in some fashion to access. The picture of said e-label, as Droid Life notes, looks a lot like a screenshot from Google Glass—and the means by which you get to the label could certainly relate to some kind of touch gesture that Google Glass would recognize.

Now that said mystery device has passed through the FCC, it's possible that Google is looking to test it out in a more public fashion than mere internal prototyping. Internal and External photos for the "GG1" device in question are being kept confidential until December, so it's possible that Google might pull the curtain on the device at some point later this year.