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Good news for people who look like shit in sunglasses, but awful news for those who love their light eye color. These transition contact lenses are the first of their kind. They might someday eliminate the need for people with contacts to ever worry about toting their glasses around at all.

There are surely some of you who have held out on contacts simply because you enjoy having your transitive lens frames. Luckily, the Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore has developed the first true set of transitive contact lenses which automatically adapt to the current lighting conditions. Now when are they going to create transitive 3D contact lenses?

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Trust me, I know how important it is to see all of your surroundings when you’re biking. When I was 12 I was hit by a drunk driver. I can only think of what might have happened if I had been able to see what was going on around me. Would I have been able to avoid the hit?

The Nike Hindsight concept glasses give bikers an extra 25% visual range on each side of their peripheral vision. That’s a few extra feet that can literally save your life. The extra angle helps riders see traffic approaching from different angles. It sucks getting hit by a car. Really. You should do everything in your power to avoid it.

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What happens when you give a couple of nerds some copper, a CNC plasma torch and a lot of time? Simple. You wind up with a set of copper masks that look like they’re right out of Star Trek. The shades are actually based on a 2000-year-old design by the Inuit, an artic tribe from back in the day. I’d love a pair of these, but wouldn’t they heat up and get really hot come late July/early August? Just sayin’.

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I’m tempted to call Photoshop but goddamn that looks like it must have hurt. Either way, it’s as close to Morpheus as you’re going to get.

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BOO! I’m coming to inspect your diamonds! You better watch out or I might appraise your jewelry at unexpectedly low prices! Muaahahha!

These totally Steampunk-alicious goggles, unlike typical Steampunk project items, are actually for sale. Etsy has them available for $159.99. Can ya dig? Better run, there seems to be only one pair available. Hit the jump fo’ mo’. (more…)

I recently bought a new pair of sunglasses and didn’t need these cheap $6 Walgreens sunglasses I bought in Florida a year ago. With some time on my hands, I quickly modded them to resemble the pair Arnie wore in the classic action flick, The Terminator. This mod can most likely be done without solder, but we’re going to make our pair with solder. Ready to make? Read on.

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Your cellphone doesn’t quite have the power the PSP has, though it’s trying. The Seiko Epson Corp are pushing the future of cellphone software forward with their 3-D display for mobile phones. With about 500 PPI of resolution, this 3D display is a sight to see with no 3-D glasses needed:

“[It's] one of the world’s highest resolutions of direct-view-type displays that do not use projectors,” says Goro Hamagishi, general manager of the Display Development Center, Corporate Research & Development Div, Seiko Epson Corp.

This is done using a special lens called lenticular lens that, when placed over pixels, is possible to make different images be seen from different angles. Similar to the ‘real-time’ 3-D image rendering system, several cameras are used to shoot images from different angles. It is then that the 3-D image takes its true form. The company plans on commercializing this display within the next two years. Until then, you’ll have to hold yourself over with Doom RPG for your cellphone.

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Talk about creepy. Apparently, there’s a zoo in Rotterdam that some gorilla named Bokito escaped from. He beat a woman up, officials decided it was because the woman was staring Bokito down and BokitoViewers were born thanks to insurance company FBTO.

As you can see, these silly glasses would go well with a Smile Stick. Too bad no one will want to go near you.

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Filming people doing silly sings is much easier when your camera is hidden secretly in the arms of your sunglasses. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spend $402 on these suave spy sunglasses so you can be the next Ethan Hunt.

A simple button push is all it takes to switch the view that you wish to record on the fully featured wireless receiver. The color video is recorded with audio so that you can view your exploits later.

And exploits there will be. With these glasses you could find great blackmail material on just about anyone! Chinavasion is not responsible if you’re executed in a foreign country for espionage.

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Millions of fatties have been waiting for the day when that one little pill will be invented that makes you lose weight without making the effort to exercise. The fountain of weight loss pill might be still in the making, but there might be an easier way. These special Blue Shade Glasses are made to make food look bland and less appealing then it usually would.

Research shows that blue is the least appetizing color on the spectrum, which would lead us to believe that these glasses would in theory, make food look less appetizing. Well, I don’t know about you, but I can sure go for a heaping plate of blue right now. But I really should watch my BCI (blue color intake.) — Andrew Dobrow

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