Calvin Klein’s new sunglasses offer up a little storage with your UV protection thanks to a 4GB USB flash drive embedded in the right arm.
What is the worst product idea you’ve ever heard? Now double it. We’re talking about sunglasses that tape on, and yes, they’re real.
The full details won’t be available until CES this year, but Vuzix is already teasing us with this image of their Wrap 920AV video glasses.
In the future, sunglasses will need to do more than just make you look cool or prevent costly eye conditions. They’ll need to power your gadgets, according to at least one pair of designers.
Here’s a brain machine made from an old pair of shades with customised lenses by Okini393939. Stick ‘em on and you have an instant meditation session thanks to the flashing lights and sound. I particularly like the instructions he put on the inside of the lenses—check it in the pic below.
Sunglass spy cameras were previously relegated to actual spies and weirdos that subscribed to those spy equipment magazines, but ThinkGeek has brought such covert voyeurism to the average man with US$99 and change. The camera’s triggered wirelessly via remote, which is very discreet, but has a fat camera on either side of the lenses, which isn’t. Luckily for you the 1GB storage and MP3 earbud playback gives you a reasonable excuse as to why you’re wearing such thick sunglasses in the Gold’s Gym women’s locker room. [Think Geek via Red Ferret via Boing Boing]
newVideoPlayer("hdglasses_giz.flv", 475, 376,""); With all the confusion around 720p, 1080i, 1080p, HD, full HD, Blu-ray, HD DVD, ACVHD and the pesky digital television transition, thank goodness we have the fine folks who make infomercials standing in the ready to soothe our tired brains. Before watching this very important offer, we had no clue that we’d only been seeing the world in standard def. How embarrassing!
Tag Heuer is releasing glasses that offer you night vision without scaring your family into thinking that their mini van has been hijacked for a covert ops mission. Their “Night Vision” glasses use light yellow lenses to enhance road contrast and improve your distance of view. Field tested at 24 Hours of LeMans, Tag Heuer is feeling charitable enough to provide them for your next vital midnight run to grab a “fourth meal.” [jalopnik]
Oakley’s Split Thump sunglasses aren’t exactly popular outside of the mullet-sporting bounty hunter demographic, but if you can get past the looks (tough to do), it’s actually a decent sunglass-MP3 player. Tech Digest says the drag and drop file loading from both Windows and Macs was incredibly easy, plus the volume is quite loud and drowns out the mean things people around you are saying. The noise insulation and the dark lenses ensure that you’ll never have to actually face the fact that you’re wearing MP3 sunglasses. [Tech Digest]
The quality of your sunglasses can make or break your social status these days. Just look at Corey Worthington – His bright yellow glasses are now a trademark for being an irresponsible little tool.
If you think that your social positioning could use a little pick me up, these limited edition Ray-ban Wayfarers will do the trick. Not only are they they same design that Tom Cruise made famous in Risky Business (that was before he became a nutjob), but they fold up into a neat little package that you can carry with you in your pocket.
They’ll set you back US$149, but if that’s the cost of social acceptance these days, then it’s an absolute bargain…
