Wait til he comes out with version 2.0. It will include small motors and wiper blades to clean your lenses at the touch of a button, convienently located on the side of the headband (there will be room for expansion so other features/controls can be added later). Left and right hand models will be available in all colors & head sizes.

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Maybe sharks will have frickin' lasers on their heads by then also.

Odd_Thomas

Finaly Headbands are back! I have been waiting for this day since 1988

taftsearlobe33

@GadgetPlay: I may be one of the few that get that joke. But good play sir. Good play.

Chromeo

@Chromeo: In 2020 all glasses will be steampunk.

frigg

How will this affect future hat sales?

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

Seriously?

Collins1

I'm guessing that the inventor was born a poor black child...

GadgetPlay

@Gizmo: Yeah and I guess this means tinfoil hats are out too.

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@Odd_Thomas: Are you kidding? We might have bionic eyes by then that shoot laser beams..

And some kind of gamma powered mechanical monster! with freeway onramps for arms, and a heart as black as coal!!! Oh yes...

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@DisposableInterloper: I think we stop noticing the pressure because we wear them every day. But it shows in the long run I think. I see a lot of people who stop wearing glasses (my mom after she got LASIK) and have the marks of the glasses on their noses. I guess it's not a big deal to most people.

RE-L

Thats what glasses will look like in 2020 if youre Yoko Ono AND Borg. I should still be alive by that time, I can say for sure that I will NEVER wear those. Ever.

Curves Wants a Classic View Default

@DisposableInterloper: We are not really talking about the distant future here and some people actually look better with glasses on.

Odd_Thomas

Sure, make fun, people, but these glasses are perfectly serviceable. All that's really needed to boost their fashionability is to add a bit of bling. You know, like a kajillion Swarovksi crystals...

bosskev

Steampunk glasses?

Chromeo

Now all they need to do is solve that irritating forehead strain and the hat-hair side effect. Perhaps some sort of solution that suspends the lenses from the front of the face...

Killjoy

Navin R. Johnson.

Bweetza

@Odd_Thomas:
Who knows? By then we might get eye drops laced with micro-scale robots that burrrow into your corneas, lenses, and perhaps even retinas to optically optimize your eyes.

DisposableInterloper

The problem is the headband. I would replace it with a large weighted mass, like a chef's hat filled with concrete, for greater stability.

frigg

@RE-L:
I wear glasses, and I really don't see the point of this "invention." If they fit to your face properly, and the frame is light enough, I can't see how how the pressure could be anything but negligible.

DisposableInterloper

I love these so called glimpses of the future.

I suspect glasses will look almost the same as they do now for a very long time to come. Besides, she's not wearing a silver suit.

Gizmo

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: I dont think peoples eyesight will magically get better in the year 2020

Odd_Thomas

Now, everyone can have hat-head!

ninjagin

2020... people still wear glasses?

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

Or, you could just get a flexible frame and a bandana strap. Problem solved, and you don't look like a tool in the process.

DisposableInterloper

Electric chair style?

I wear glasses and I do agree with the part about them causing pressure on your nose and ears. But damn...please design something that won't cause uncontrollable laughter on people every time I walk into a room? Is that too much to ask?

RE-L

I think the idea is alright but those happen to look horrible. I'm sure that if they became popular you might see some that look nice.

Odd_Thomas

What's next, the Opti-Grab?

BigDogues

*thing, moron.

DonFirebomb

No thanks, Yoko Ono

NNTPgrip

Wow. They created D-Bag glasses.

innout3x3

*schedules LASIK appointment for 12/31/2019*

92BuickLeSabre

Fit for the Canadian royal oligarchy of the future.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

"Doc I came here in a time machine that YOU invented. I need help to get back to the year...1985."

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?? It means this damn this doesn't work at all!!"

/BTTF'd

DonFirebomb

@Mark Wilson: Dude, if i wanted to look at pics of hot girls that make me pop a boner, i'd go to Fleshbot. NSFW! NSFW!

se.beercan

...
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..BWAHAHAHA

Amsterdaam

That is thee most hideous thing I have seen today. People who actually buy those deserve a punch in the face.

Alex2643

Makes sense.

Ugly as heck - but makes sense...

In 100 years, someone will design glasses that rest on your nose - taking away all the pressure on your head that headband glasses cause.

JeffPom

@Odd_Thomas: Lasik could be WAY cheaper by then.

danatoth

@BigDogues: Glasses, I damn thee!

dingus

@BigDogues: Damn you, BigDogues! Beat me to it.

"He hates these cans!"

Meatlocker - still a man, despite his white iPhone fetish.

@RE-L:
Oh I know the marks. I used to have those until I got a better frame and soft nose pads.

It also helps to not wear your glasses 24/7.

DisposableInterloper

Won't this just stretch your forehead skin?

hagrun

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...:
By 2020, there will be tense--at times even life-threatening--competition between eyeglass makers and hat makers. You see, to curb the tide of ever-dwindling sales of hats--due, of course, to dreaded "hat hair"--hat makers will have designed glasses that suspend a hat way above your head, never touching your hair.

The retail wars will be deadly, but with style innovations like these at least we'll all be lookin' good. As I will be soon (-47).

bosskev

@GadgetPlay: As long as he's got a remote control he'll be fine.

frigg

I know what would make these sell well! Make it so you can attach your iphone/ipod on there and you have a winner.

Odd_Thomas

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: That's what I was thinking. In 2020, glasses won't exist anymore. Lasik is already quite good, and will only get better. If/when health insurance companies start covering Lasik, glasses will be history. Now, this brings up a whole different argument of why insurance comanies will never cover Lasik, but that's for another time & place.

bkchosun

Looks like the perfect birth control method to me.

Meatlocker - still a man, despite his white iPhone fetish.

@dingus:

Don't be so hard on yourself. How could you know that was
Iron Balls McGinty?

Meatlocker - still a man, despite his white iPhone fetish.

@hagrun: You know I started reading that comment a little too fast at first....

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

This will go over as well as the Opti-grab

Squard

This makes NO sense at all.

It's like trying to improve the basic diamond bike frame. It just works as is and can't get much better.

I've worn glass most of my life and I would NEVER consider wearing these.

Dinotech

let's relieve 2oz of pressure on the nose by putting a 2lb load on the head.

right.

dascoyne

They should be called Birth Control glasses.

Tom.MFD

@bosskev: Begun, that hat wars have...

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

What All Glasses Will Look Like in 2020..

Yea...5 years after they perfect Bionic eyes.....Nice touch....

fastharry

I predict that in the future everyone will wear lenses that you can put right over your eye... basically the lenses will come into CONTACT with your eyes.

Crazy, I know.

raptorrapture

Classic Chindōgu style.

Dillenger69

How about just developing a fastener of sorts to attach to the brow or bridge of the nose to support the lenses?

Or better yet, apply some nano Segway technology and have the glasses balance on the bridge of your nose.

topernicus

no.

pardyhardy

@GadgetPlay: He hates these cans!

RobotVampire

@BigDogues: I'm gonna bounce back and when I do I'm gonna buy you a diamond so big it's gonna make you puke.

stupidjerk

@Odd_Thomas:
Look at the difference between 1996 and now. Turn that around and look forward to 2020. The idea that micro-scale surgical robots will be developed, refined, and commercially deployed is not altogether far-fetched.

DisposableInterloper

@raptorrapture:

Like some sort of tangential lens, no that doesn't sound right, contiguous lens? Names are tough.

ranwhenparked

Just as long as females doesn´t look like that by 2020 we´ll be fine!

JoOngle

@frigg: And a Thermos. That's all he needs.

Killjoy

i'll wait for robotic implants, thanks.

starpugbug

@frigg: And this lamp.

OMG! Ponies!

I pray the inventor doesn't design condoms.

dascoyne

Oakley--Been There Done That!

Oakley OverTheTops:
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booshpilot

You'll dont know what you are talking about. These shades will go great with my 2020 flying car!

ZeroCoolFool

I'm almost shure I've already seen something like that before... and it didn't work out because it was fugly.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

damn these glasses.
yes sir- i damn thee

omfgitsdon - RUN

@DisposableInterloper: Well, within a century or two, we should become a Type I civilization with the ability to deflect meteors and comets, alter the weather to avoid extinction level climate changes, and put global pollution under control.
So, yes, nano-bots are not terribly far fetched.

berribrand

The first thing that popped into my head was Steve Martin's movie "The Jerk" Then I read the Opti-Grab post and knew others are thinking the same thing. With extended wear this thing will cause a misshappen head and will suffer the Opti-Grabs fate.

GiuliettaGabronie

That's it...I'm with B Lam...I'm getting Lasik before this abomination becomes a reality.

smegz

For those tha don't like glasses on their noses may I suggest ........ (wait for it)...........
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CONTACT LENSES!

Skeptical_Geezer

lame

CharitableNinja

@dascoyne: A condom attached to a belt? What a fashion statement that would make.

It should be popular with the guys who wear their socks while having sex.

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@JoOngle: Why not? These glasses will have accessories. Single and Double bags.

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

Dee Da Dee!

Dormamu

@OMG! Ponies!:
and this paddleball

godwhacker

100 years from now nobody will be wearing glasses because they will have their perfect eyesight genetically engineered before they're born, OR they'll have created a pill that does it - one or the other.

EricAlder

FAIL. Fail, fail, fail.

AdmNaismith