They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests.
Edit: "My eyesight was sharper than usual for both far and close distances (down to two inches)" blimey! I might be sold. I need read glasses for soldering and close work like that and it's a bit of a pain.
> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests.
There's no accounting for taste, but no. No no no. This is Halloween costume bad. Just came from ComicCon bad. Google glass bad. And people are going to assume they are being recorded.
> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests.
Come on, yeah they do. You don't have a car-style cellular antenna sticking up any more, the way you would in the 90s. But that, and incremental refinement in materials and profile, is really all the aesthetic difference from what you'd see back then. It doesn't do enough to help.
Granted, you're not wrong about the potential benefits, although I think I'd need a lot of convincing that it's enough of a qualitative improvement to be worth the cost and complexity over fixed magnifiers. But I'd never consider these at all if you could see my electronics bench from the street.
Not at all. I actually think they look kind of cool. I still would prefer very understated glasses, but these are way better than a lot of the awful frames you see people wearing sometimes.
Those have at least the virtue of being on trend. It's not that these don't also make a fashion statement; it's that the content of the statement is "I decline to participate."
Not that I'm judging; I'd hardly be one to, certainly not these days when the most elaborate style I bother going for is "artsy graying homosexual" and even that not with any real commitment, aside from the graying part, which isn't up to me. But I was a classic when I was young, and while no one ever particularly mentioned my glasses adding to my looks that I recall, I believe I now know a way I could've had people mentioning they took a lot away from them. Make of it what you find it to be worth.
Good news, you tend to care less about stylish by the time you need bifocals. I have leveled up to the point at which I can wear bifocals and suspenders without giving any fucks. Probably because they no longer alter my probability of getting one.
Agree fully, as I put on the dorkiest headband in the world to capture sweat from my forehead as I work outside. It's not that we older folds don't care what people think, but more like we now realize that people rarely care or think about others who aren't close to them. Those few dozen people that see me in my dorky headband won't even remember my face in 15 seconds.
It always amazes me eyewear entrants don't start with something tried, tested, and timeless like wayfarers or aviators. More room to work with and shove batteries evenly, too. Sure, offer this as an option for people who like it if you want, but the classics are still popular for a reason.
I don't think "dorky" is the right word for these glasses. Anachronistic is better. And that can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on one's perspective.
Others mentioned Geordie, but even going back (and obviously the "visor" was in the zeitgeist since at least the 70s with the android type bots drawn by futurists), my first thought was the Six Flags Great America type sunglasses that were cool as hell when my older sister came home with them.
This is the closest I could find in search without trying too hard.
But yeah, why can't these companies just design regular old glasses styles so people don't feel like a dolt and maybe would want to buy them. Instead everyone has to be made to look like a glasshole and all the entitlement that connotes in the mass mind.
They look like Google glasses because they have the same design constraints: small lens and needing to fit a lot of electronics in the frame. If they could make them look normal I think they obviously would.
Articles only need click-bait titles, not pictures, in order to be profitable. Relevant and informative pictures are an unecessary expense. People don’t read articles to be informed, people read articles to feel smart. And to just feel smart, you don’t actually need a picture.
IP rating is IMHO critical. If people start relying on it to live their life, getting it killed by unpredicted rain or an accidental water splash will be quite a shock.
Battery life could be worked around if they're really that much of an improvement in day to day use. Even buying two or three pairs to go through a full day could be a worthy tradeoff if they don't need to pair to anything. Cost could be an issue, but 2 or 3 of them would still be cheaper that many hearing aids for instance.
