Posted on 11/12/2018 8:54:12 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
In a world bombarded by screens constantly blasting ads and visual noise, a team of artists and designers wondered if glasses could be created that can black out all those invasive messages. After a year of research and prototyping, the IRL Glasses are now launching on Kickstarter. EARLY LAST YEAR, Scott Blew was standing in line at a food truck in Los Angeles when he caught the glare of Fox News on a television out of the corner of his eye. This is ridiculous, he thought. He couldn’t even escape the deluge of the news, or the ubiquity of screens, on a jaunt outdoors to get lunch. You could consciously choose to put your phone away, to step away from your laptop, but then some other screen would pop up elsewhere, whether you liked it or not.
Blew, an entrepreneur and engineer, recalled an article he’d recently read in WIRED about a new kind of film that blocked the light emitted from screens. Plaster it on the glass walls of fishbowl conference rooms and other people could see in—but they couldn’t see what was on someone's laptop. Blew wondered if the same technology might work on a pair of glasses, to block the screens that seemed to be everywhere.
He contacted Steelcase, the company that made the Casper screen-blocking film, and ordered a sample. Then he popped out the lenses in a pair of cheap sunglasses and replaced them with the film. Amazingly, it worked: Blew could look through the lenses and see everything—except for screens, which turned black.
Sure would cut down on the Eyebleach bill...
At the very least, you get a ZZ Top song out of this.
He was hacked off at Fox News....
Not CNN.
Hmm
EXACTLY - What else will we see with these on? They live!
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and block ads, and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
Click-bait headline
I see TVs on in diners, restaurants, etc. - usually a lib channel, but sometimes centrist Fox. I don’t want to see ANY of them when I’m eating...
Problem will be that nobody will be able to read their LCD phone screens, either.
These would be great if you could permanently attach them for about 12 hours, from 6 pm to 6 am to the addicted ones.
Back when I was a kid we called it LIFE.
So hating Fox News caused him to develop something useful!
let me know when they offer permanent surgery for it
Hand them out at airports.
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