Thought these were funny and went to buy a pair only to be met with this
“Free” returns & package protection (the bare minimum for an online purchase) is behind a $1.23 paywall, to which you then have to agree to ANOTHER companies Privacy Policy & T&C, which state they’ll sell your transaction info to advertisers. Kinda defeats the bit IMHO
Haven’t sunglasses ALWAYS been used by pervs to obscure their eyeline?
DDG reinvented the sunglasses. Genius.
Meta’s “Controversial” Smart Glasses…
What a euphemisim.
Technically not not The Onion?
Technically the onion jumped on the bandwagen after the fact so it’s more like not not not the onion.
Looks like an AD on the onion based on the #sponsored tag.
This reads more like just knowing your audience then an actual onion piece.
Now, Google alternative DuckDuckGo, a company that has long attempted to actively distance itself from Big Tech, has come up with a genius new product that’s guaranteed not to spark controversy: a pair of plastic, non-pervert glasses that lack any electronics whatsoever.
The company partnered with sunglasses maker Knockaround to create the “world’s most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses,” or “Normal F***ing Sunglasses.”
Would I call them non-pervert glasses? Maybe. Would I call them anti-pervert glasses? No, that is a word i’d use for glasses that work like the Freedom Shield: https://github.com/nickbild/freedom_shield
Im very new to circuitry, only getting into it about a month ago as I stumble through rgh3 on a 360, but I’m learning it as quickly as I learn anything with physical and tactile properties.
Soft Circuits made from laminate on copper foil would be easy enough to make anchor points to solder the LED to that can be stitched to fabrics without damaging the circuitry. Using the smaller LEDs he mentioned, braided wires, and a jumper to connect a battery pack, you’d easily be able to wear this basically everywhere.
Get a denim jacket, run the wiring along or even inside of the fold over seam that’s iconic in denim, I don’t know what the coverage of the lights are, but that could be figured out easily, then you just space the lights along each seam. Same for jeans and a hat. Alternative, a mechanics jump suit with hood and go full head to toe. You could even use jumpers by the neck and waist to attach hat and pants to the jacket circuit so you only have to have one battery pack.
Using the DIY soft circuit, you could make every piece of this at home with a laminator, scissors, and sewing kit, but I’d hazard to say a cricket cutter would make it easier. Hit up your nearest craft fair and there’s bound to be a goblin that can do this in a week with a cool jacket from a thrift store.
How decidedly retro of them! Next they’ll sell watches you actually have to wind up every day to keep time!
Actually, there are completely mechanical self-winding watches. They’ll never need a battery as long as you wear them occasionally.
This is one of those things that has no impact on my normal day to day, but is still absolutely mind blowing any time it comes up
I’d settle for a phone that’s just a phone
Like this?
Oh come on, at least post a picture of a good one. 1989 Swatch Phone:
Had one like that, but I think it was solid blue
Damn, I missed all the good things, huh?
How do you install software updates?
Over the air
