Orange's wearable cellphone movie glasses

Talk about your bizarre love square: France Telecom, International Essilor, and Orange have come together over the "Optical Microphone" (uh, we're thinking a little something was a bit lost in translation there), and done gone integrated the wearable display device with a Samsung SGH-D600. The intention? Provide mobile video content delivered directly to your already worn-thin corneas via totally New Wave wearable display. We're sure the visuals are questionable and the content is of dubious quality, but really, if you're not consuming media—especially wirelessly—at every possible second of the day, you're obviously living in a second or third world country at this point, so just stop asking questions ok?

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[James @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

hmm, I always wanted a visor like Lt. Cmmdr. Geordie La Forge, now I can finally have one!

[Vvoi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

i thought the second world didn't exist any more...
i wonder if and how they tested what actually happens to ones eyes after this sort of treatment...


http://new-art.blogspot.com

[Jae @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

lol. ditto james.
that's exactly what I was thinking.

[Steve "crp" Commeau @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Actually, the real name of the glasses - without translation - is "Micro Optical"...

[lupinstel @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Only german electronic musicians from the 80's are going to wear these.

[Andrew @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

How else are you supposed to watch your private pr0n in public?

[jim @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Great another company copying of apple.
This is what will come with the iPod video. Like headphones for music, you will have glasses for movies. It hasn't even come out yet and they are already copying them. How pathetic.

[Jazzay @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

^o) how is this copying apple if apple hasnt made plans to do this yet, this is already shown off, apple hasnt said anything, if apple comes out with this, who will be the ones copying?

[Jason Marshall @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

The translation is bad. That's "Micro Optical glasses". The common term for microphone is 'micro', and the translation software got confused.

[celerysword @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

"Who asks to hold with the hollow of his hand his terminal and especially to sacrifice the miniaturization of the apparatuses - so practical and design for much - to apparatuses including of the sufficiently imposing screens to see the details of film?"

Indeed, a good question.

[Justin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Now you can get eye cancer and brain cancer at the same time!

[BJ McWild @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

These display eyeglasses will have to be see-through to be of any real use. But there is only one technology that is see-through and bright enough for daylight visibility -- Microvision's scanned-beam display that scans beams of light directly across your eyes.
Check out http://microvision.blogspot.com for everything you could ever want to know about see-through head-up displays. I believe this will be the biggest thing in technology over the next few years.

[Nebu Pookins @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

I'm from Quebec, so I speak French fairly fluently. I posted a translation and other info on my blog. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit, it has some sort of facility to connect to game consoles and DVD players.

http://nebupookins.net/entry.php?id=292