Samsung Electronics seems to be making a device designed to compete with Google Glass. A design patent registered with Korean authorities in October shows an electronic device in the form of spectacles.

"The glasses design has earphones integrated allowing users to take phone calls and listen to music during workouts, according to a memo attached to drawings of the device, filed by Samsung earlier this year.

The device, which features a lens that is either transparent or translucent, is communicationg with a smartphone and displays alerts for information running on the phone, providing easy access to control when the users? hands are tied with sports activities, the memo says.

Samsung has already made astep into wearable devices with the launch of its smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear.