Sunglasses

May 15th 2024

Cerebral Valley Hackers Build $20 Open Source Smart Glasses

A five-person team at a San Francisco hackathon created an open source approach to Meta's AI-powered Ray-Bans.

Artificial Intelligence Maxwell Zeff May 15

April 1st 2024

Fake or Safe? How to Ensure Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Are Real

Phony eclipse glasses are hitting the market, but there are ways to weed out these bad apples and guarantee a safe viewing experience.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Apr 1

March 13th 2024

Here’s Exactly What Will Happen to Your Eyes If You Stare at the Eclipse Without Protection

Don't underestimate the risks viewing the total solar eclipse on April 8 without the appropriate gear.

Health George Dvorsky Mar 13

September 27th 2023

Meta’s New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Look Kinda Cool and Can Livestream Your Life

No longer called Stories, the new smart glasses feature a new look and can be pre-ordered for $300.

Other Gadgets Florence Ion Sep 27

August 3rd 2023

Facebook Isn’t Giving Up on Smart Glasses, Even if It Probably Should

Only 10% of Ray-Ban Stories owners still actively use the glasses, per internal Facebook documents.13% of customers returned them due to performance issues.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Aug 3

July 10th 2023

BMW Launches Smart Glasses That Give Motorcyclists a Heads-Up Display

The BMW Motorrad ConnectedRide Smartglasses will be available later this year for around $750. Speed and directions will appear on the lenses.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 10

January 12th 2023

CES 2023 Made it Clear AR Glasses Are Coming Back, and Soon

In two to three years, we’ll be having the same conversations we had about Google Glass, but have people truly changed in the past decade?

Gadgets Kyle Barr Jan 12

December 17th 2021

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories Somehow Make Both Ray-Bans and Spying Less Cool

Facebook's new smart glasses allow you to capture the world around you while simultaneously looking like a creep.

Accessories & Wearables Brianna Provenzano Dec 17

October 21st 2021

Let’s All Laugh at Balenciaga’s $1,035 LED Sunglasses

One day, fashion and technology will intersect in a meaningful way. Today is not that day.

Tech News Victoria Song Oct 21

September 9th 2021

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Glasses Leaked and They Look Awfully Familiar

So... it looks like Facebook decided to make its own pair of Snap Spectacles

Social Media Victoria Song Sep 9

May 3rd 2021

We’re Not Ready for Smart Glasses Yet

After the original Google Glass crashed and burned, consumer smart glasses were put on the back burner for a while. There’s no shortage of reasons why, which makes it a little baffling that in 2021, high-tech glasses have made a mini-comeback. Facebook, Apple, and even Samsung are all rumored to be working on a pair…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song May 3

April 26th 2021

This High-End Alien Fashion Line Is Xenomorph Couture

In space, no one can hear you scream—but everyone can still see how good you look if you’re wearing La Femme et Noir’s new fashion line based on Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi masterpiece Alien. Co-founders and designers Micheline Pitt and Lynh Haaga took us down the Giger-esque catwalk to show us this collection of horrifyingly…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 26

January 27th 2021

I Love The New Bose Frames Even If I Look Like an Absolute Jabroni

I liked the original Bose Frames. They were stylish sunglasses that featured audio-based augmented reality, which actually seemed like a clever workaround for the technological challenges of smart glasses. But alas, Bose AR wasn’t meant to be. Last summer, the company shuttered that division and as a result, Bose Frames went from being audio AR…

Headphones Victoria Song Jan 27

January 13th 2021

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It’s Time to Step Up Your Glasses Game

Now that we’ve more or less figured out how to wear glasses and protective masks at the same time without fogging up said glasses, now’s as good a time as any for taking some inspiration from genre’s greatest bespectacled characters to step one’s glasses game up. Personality glasses people: this is your time.

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 13

December 4th 2018

Bose Actually Turned Its Funky Sunglasses Headphones Concept Into a Real Gadget

Earlier this year, Bose showed off a product concept that seemed like the Snapchat Spectacles of the audio world, complete with buzzwords such as augmented reality and digital assistants littered throughout this description. But for a company like Bose not normally known for taking a lot of chances, it seemed like the glasses were just…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Dec 4

August 5th 2016

Nike’s New $1,200 Sunglasses Are Really—Wait, $1,200?

For top runners, like the elite specimens competing in the Olympics, every last thing you wear needs to be engineered for comfort and speed. So Nike and Zeiss took inspiration from human anatomy for a new pair of sunglasses that wrap around an athlete’s head. The Wing, which Nike refers to as “sun shades” instead…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 5

December 21st 2015

This Might Be the Coolest Reflection in a Pair of Sunglasses Ever

As Senior Airman Sonya Alexander got to work refuelling an E-3 Sentry (AWACS) jet, something pretty great happened. Yes, that is the reflection of the jet in her sunglasses. Image by U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Nieves Camacho

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 21

August 24th 2015

Classy Sunglasses That Keep The Wind Out Of Your Eyes?

Action specs are great at keeping wind and debris out of your eyes through fast-paced sports like mountain biking. But their blade-like styling looks dumb once you slow down. Enter this new range of casually-styled, but high-performance sunglasses from California brands Salt Optics and Aether Apparel. Available in a couple different styles and a bunch…

Tech News Wes Siler Aug 24

August 8th 2015

These Glasses Block Facial Recognition Technology

Facial recognition software is cropping up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before anti facial recognition tech started to catch up. Naturally, Japan is leading the way. That’s right: Japan’s National Institute of Informatics is now developing ‘privacy glasses’ that make human faces unreadable to machines. An earlier (and way amazingly dorkier)…

Privacy & Security Maddie Stone Aug 8

June 29th 2015

SlapSee Sunglasses Are Like a 90s Slap Bracelet For Your Face

Remember those slap wrap bracelets that were banned back in the 90s? They’re back and slowly regaining the public’s trust with a handful of slightly more useful products, including a pair of folding sunglasses that can securely wrap around bike handlebars or, of course, your wrist. The actual lenses on the SlapSee sunglasses don’t roll…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 29

Sunglasses

Cerebral Valley Hackers Build $20 Open Source Smart Glasses

Fake or Safe? How to Ensure Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Are Real

Here’s Exactly What Will Happen to Your Eyes If You Stare at the Eclipse Without Protection

Meta’s New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Look Kinda Cool and Can Livestream Your Life

Facebook Isn’t Giving Up on Smart Glasses, Even if It Probably Should

BMW Launches Smart Glasses That Give Motorcyclists a Heads-Up Display

CES 2023 Made it Clear AR Glasses Are Coming Back, and Soon

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories Somehow Make Both Ray-Bans and Spying Less Cool

Let’s All Laugh at Balenciaga’s $1,035 LED Sunglasses

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Glasses Leaked and They Look Awfully Familiar

We’re Not Ready for Smart Glasses Yet

This High-End Alien Fashion Line Is Xenomorph Couture

I Love The New Bose Frames Even If I Look Like an Absolute Jabroni

It’s Time to Step Up Your Glasses Game

Bose Actually Turned Its Funky Sunglasses Headphones Concept Into a Real Gadget

Nike’s New $1,200 Sunglasses Are Really—Wait, $1,200?

This Might Be the Coolest Reflection in a Pair of Sunglasses Ever

Classy Sunglasses That Keep The Wind Out Of Your Eyes?

These Glasses Block Facial Recognition Technology

SlapSee Sunglasses Are Like a 90s Slap Bracelet For Your Face

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