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OLPC Designer Turns to Spectacles
Yves Béhar, the designer of the OLPC, has switched his sights to spectacles. Specifically, he has turned his talent for making cheap, easy to use gadgets to provide glasses for Mexican schoolchildren....
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Fluid-Filled, Adjustable Eye-Glasses
I wear glasses. I like them. I like how they look, and I like that they stop me poking things in my eye. But I can afford to buy them. For many, especially in developing countries, spectacles are an...
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One Pair of 3-D Glasses to Bind Them All
If highways worked like 3-D TVs, you wouldn’t be able to drive Fords on GM roads and vice-versa. It sounds crazy, but that’s the state of affairs with 3-D active shutter glasses. The glasses that work...
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Samsung to Supply Stylish Prescription Specs for 3DTV
While we wait for manufacturers of 3D TVs to get together and agree on a standard so we don’t need different glasses for every different set, Samsung is at least making things easier for four-eyed...
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Youniversal 3D Glasses Tailor-Made for Your Eyes
LAS VEGAS — Xpand’s new universal 3D glasses not only adjust to suit the 3DTV you want to use them with: they also adjust to suit you. Dubbed “Youniversal”, the specs come in a range of sizes and can...
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2-D Glasses Remove Nausea from 3-D Movies
Imagine the scene. You show up at the cinema to meet your so-called friends and they have decided to go watch the 3-D version of Thor. Aside from the fact that they should have taken you weeks ago,...
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Sony HUD Specs Show Subtitles to Cinemagoers
Sony has an experimental pair of spectacles that will allow cinemagoers to see on-screen subtitles, even when none are being projected. The specs are for use primarily by the deaf and hard-of-hearing,...
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LG’s Clip-On 3-D Specs for Four-Eyed Moviegoers
For a spectacle wearer, 3-D movies are a no-go zone. Even if the filthy, crappy 3-D glasses provided by the local movie-house were instead clean and awesome, they’d still be impossible to wear over...
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Google Hiring Augmented-Reality Experts Amid Rumors of HUD Glasses
As rumors swirl around Google's plans to announce head-up display glasses by the end of the year, the company has quietly begun advertising for a designer and engineer responsible for augmented-reality...
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