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[Christopher] is really going the distance with his liquid-filled 3D printed lens project. The idea is to create a bladder out of two pieces of clear plastic. It can then be filled with liquid at a variable level of pressure to curve the plastic and create an adjustable lens. He was inspired by the TED talk (which we swear we already covered but couldn't find the post) given by [Josh Silver] on … [Read more...]
[John Floren] really sells us on a pair of MyVu 301 Video Glasses. He lists the features as being bulky, ugly, and uncomfortable. That's the reason why he's showing you how to crack open the glasses in order to steal the tiny LCD modules. The LCD screen for each eye is mounted inside of the assembly seen above. The screen is perpendicular to the wearer's eye, with some space in the body to … [Read more...]
Regular glasses are okay, but these light up and respond to your movement. [Dr. Iguana] is at it again, designing a very interestingly shaped PCB to augment your visual augmentation devices. The circuit board has two thin curving wings which conform to the shape of a pair of glasses. In the middle there's a larger area that holds most of the components but it's still smaller than a common coin … [Read more...]
[Will Powell] sent in his real-time subtitle glasses project. Inspired by the ever cool Google Project Glass, he decided he would experiment with his own version. He used two Raspberry Pi's running Debian squeeze, vuzix glasses, microphones, a tv, ipad, and iphone as the hardware components. The flow of data is kind of strange in this project. The audio first gets picked up by a bluetooth … [Read more...]
[Lee] is nearsighted and has had it with contacts and glasses. When trying to figure out an alternative, he looked at the core of the problem. The eye is not shaped correctly and therefore cannot focus adequately. The solution is to change the shape of the lens. This is exactly what lasik (laser eye surgery) does, but instead of going under the incredibly bright knife [Lee] built some headgear … [Read more...]
[Ch00f] has decided to ring in the new year with some el wire Kanye glasses. Technically the term for the glasses is either "shutter shades" or "slatted sunglasses", invented around the 80s by [Alain Mikli] and originally given the nickname "Venetian Sunglasses". Kanye West evidently got his own retro redesign by the original creator and the rest is history. That is enough Wikipedia for now. … [Read more...]
If you've been keeping up with our featured stories this year you'll remember the post about using your own eyelids as 3D shutter glasses. Throngs of commenters called this one as fake and they were right. But we still enjoyed the experience... it's more fun to be trolled when the trolls are skilled and idea is original. The perpetrators have released a follow-up video that shows how it was done. … [Read more...]
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