While the majority of gadgets are assembled overseas, wearable computing gadget Google Glass will be manufactured within the U.S, according to a Financial Times report.

Google Glass does many of the same things you do with your smartphone, such as snapping pictures, recording video, displaying augmented reality user interfaces (such as driving directions), and communicating with others. Despite not being released until late 2013, Google Glass is already a main topic of conversation among futurist hipsters who can’ wait to spend $1,500 (or less) on ridiculous looking eyewear.

(I confess to being one of those hipsters.)

The report indicates that Google has signed a contract with Hon Hai Precision Industry’s Foxconn to produce its Google Glass in San Francisco. Foxconn is also responsible for producing a large number of products for Apple, so it’s not surprising for them to grab the contract to build the new smart eyeglasses. If true, the move would mark Foxconn’s first manufacturing operations withing the U.S. Hon Hai first expressed interested in creating U.S. manufacturing plants back in November, with likely locations being job-starved Detroit and Los Angeles for production of Apple’s Mac Mini computers.

This also wouldn’t be the first time Google has tried to produce a piece of hardware domestically. The company also tried to manufacture its Nexus Q TRON bowling ball before wisely deciding to delay production last year.

The potential San Francisco plant also wouldn’t need to be set up for mass production in the same way you would for other popular mobile gadgets. The Financial Times states:

Only a few thousand Google Glass devices will roll off the Californian factory line in the coming weeks rather than the millions of iPhones and other electronics which Foxconn typically produces at its plants in China, where the vast majority of the world’s gadgets are made. It is also not clear how many people the facility will employ.

The “few thousand” Google Glass devices could be all the company needs to supply super-early adopters and winners of its Explorer Program.

We’re reaching out to Google for further comment about Google Glass manufacturing, and will update this post with any new information.

Photo credit Project Glass/Google+

Mc10 has raised a $10 million funding round to develop its line of wearable electronics that are light and flexible enough to conform to the human body.

The company’s digital products can be placed inside or outside the body; they include sensors that chart blood pressure, brain activity, muscle function and hydration levels. Rather than making traditional electronics smaller, Mc10′s goal is to turn them into flexible systems that are invisible to users, but are constantly working to monitor the body’s core functions.

On the consumer side, where it has received the lion’s share of attention, the company competes with wearable electronics companies like Battle Sports Science and Impakt that produce tools for fitness junkies. Health and fitness is an early focus for MC10 — one of the first products that will hit the market in 2013 is a scullcap that can be worn under helmets by athletes. Developed in partnership with Reebok, it measures the impact of collisions, and will alert athletes and their supporters on the sidelines, if they need to seek medical attention.

Flexible electronics on a person’s arm.

People are increasingly obsessed with monitoring their health (this behavior is viewed in Silicon Valley as part of a budding “Quantified Self” movement), so there is a massive opportunity for the 30-person Cambridge, Mass.-based startup. From a scientific standpoint, the company has an impressive roster of advisors that include Professor George Whitesides, noted biochemist, and Dr. Marvin Slepian, a cardiologist at the University of Arizona.

Today, the company raised capital from medical device-maker Medtronic, and existing venture investors, North Bridge Venture Partners and Braemar Energy Ventures, among others. To date, the founders has received $33 million in funds.

“With a strong set of complementary capabilities, they [our investors] bring much more to MC10 than capital.  These partnerships will help MC10 accelerate time-to-market for the products we are developing in consumer, digital health and medical devices,” said David Icke, the company’s CEO in a statement.

Fitness tracking image // leungchopan, Shutterstock

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