Shaun White may be famous for smoking pot and snowboarding but no matter your tastes, you can’t deny that these are some smoking hot sunglasses. At $155, they’re actually one of the cheaper pair of Oakleys, but you still get big Oakley looks. Mirrored red lenses, retro logo and styling – these were made for Californians and purveyors of action sports. I so want a pair.
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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You’re the man now, dog. You don’t even know what a recession is. Shit, recession isn’t even in your fucking vocabulary. After all, that is a nice LP 650-4 Roadster you just picked up. How many hundreds of thousands did you drop on that again? Right.
Well do me a favor. If you’re going to be driving around in a fashionable car, you’re going to need a pair of fashionable sunglasses. Give Carrera’s new vintage line a spin. These shades are inspired by classic 1950s looks combined with the raw edge of the 1980s (read: cocaine trafficking), making them incredibly sleek looking. I’m sure if Steve McQueen were alive today, he’d certainly be rocking these at lunch. Get your own at Bloomingdale’s or Solstice, with prices ranging from $120-$150.
Here’s an idea I seriously can’t believe hasn’t been implemented yet: generating electricity through solar cells on sunglasses. It makes sense. When it’s very sunny out, you pop on shades and you’re good to go. Why can’t we mount panels to them to generate small bits of energy? You could then use said energy to power an MP3 player or recharge a cellphone.
That’s the idea with these Self-Energy Converting Glasses from designers Hyun-Joong Jim and Kwang-Seok Jeong.
The dye solar cell is described by the designers of the SIG as “cheap organic dye [used with] nano technology [providing] cheap but high energy efficiency.” Inexpensive, light, and visible-ray penetrable. The lens turns sunlight rays, (rays that would otherwise harm the eye,) into electrical energy.
I think we’ll be there by 2010. What do you think?
I’m constantly in search of the strangest lamps and light sources for my bedroom. The solar vertical lamp is much different than your traditional lamp. For one thing, there’s no bulb or electricity powering it. It’s a light source integrated into your window’s vertical blinds that has solar panels on one side that power a LED floor/table lamp or a stylish chandelier displayed on the other side.
Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim are two designers looking to free up some room on that end table besides your bed. With a light integrated into your window blinds, what could you possibly need a — for?
Here in New York, it’s currently fashion week. What is it? It’s essentially a week where everyone goes batshit for new looks and afterparties. If only Mosley Tribes’ Spring 2009 lineup of sunglasses were available, I’d be able to get laid with Kirsten Dunst or an equally trashy blonde. That’s right. Slap on a pair of the Wayfarer-style glasses and sneak off to Brooklyn incognito, sipping PBR and smoking Camels throughout the trip.
Or you could just build a sweet pair of light-up Terminator glasses.
Just because you’re having fun in the sun doesn’t give you carte blanche to look like shit. Up your game with these funky new sunglasses from Kid Robot. Designed in partnership with COLAB, these limited edition shades will only have 100 pairs of each color printed up. They’re available in pink, white and blue and cost a modest $145. Buy two pairs of each, wait six months and sell the extras on eBay for a nice profit! Slammin’!
