Solar panel-packin' sunglasses power your gizmos, make Kanye inordinately envious
By Darren Murph 
posted December 27th 2008 9:51PM
posted December 27th 2008 9:51PM
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Makes you look ridiculous? Check.
who designed these? Marvel or D.C.?
Doc: What seems to be the problem?
Me: I'm completely blind!
Doc: What happened?
Me: My iPod ran out of juice...
Doc: !?
Me: (Pulls out sunglasses)
Doc: (Facepalm)
Agreed, they should just patent the device and give it to sunglasses manufacturers
Note. till now there is no wearable device that succeeded in the industry... i don't think this would make any difference
Well... those glasses' design would actually be pretty "in" down in Europe, or at least in southern Europe (Italy, Spain, etc).
Lenny Kravitz, Bono, Superfly, Infinity Man ... the market for these is virtually unlimited!
Don't forget Mary J. Blige. She'd be in for these in every color.
Stevie Wonder people!
You forgot Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
Now YOU can look like Elton John.
In any colour!!
Just one more way to make you look like a douchebag..... If its that important to get that small amount of juice out of your electronics then you need to get a life.......
Whenever someone mentions Kanye, my douche-dar goes off and I can't focus for a good 30 seconds without raging.
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=216194_-1__0_~0_-1_12_2008_0_0
You refer to Kanye as if he were Solider Boy, Kanye makes great music not bullshit.
I hope you name isn't Wayne... Because that would be the biggest fail I have seen on the internets for some time.
No, but my twin brother name is Wayne. My name is pronounce Juan, just spelled different.
Oh.... Good.
How in the hell does "JUAN" come from "Waune?" You can only stretch letters so far before they break.
Its Spanish. The J is pronounced with a W sound. Waune is the literal sense of it.
But who cares? Kayne is still a douche.
If Kanye was a Rock Star or a Pop star it would be ok but he's a hip-hop artist that isn't talking about killing another rapper so he's a douche? I'll admit he needs to step back and check his morals but for anyone to say that his mother is to blame is a a$$! Is your mother to blame for you jacking off to porn? Last comment directed toward High ranks made me sterile :(. I'm not defending what Kanye did but I will admit he would be the first rockin these glasses.
now this is a good idea. with a little more work on design and doing something about a big ass cord wraped around your neck, this is a good idea to absorb all the energy you can get instead of using electric.
The cord is so you can hang yourself when you see how stupid you look.
It has to be a pain in the butt that you can't move you mp3-player more then 30 cm away from you head.
nah, i'd rather get a solar backpack
working on it, but you still can't trust solar to give you constant power for the speaker so there is a shortfall... less the better imo..
add a pair of solar glasses, solar pants.. you're* rollin
A solar backpack? LOL
Angela from Aberdeen
Backlinks
BBC News: March 21st, 2011:
London, UK: Statistics from the London Metropolitan Police Department have revealed that incidents involving citizens walking directly into lamp and other signposts have increased by 3500% just this year.
In addition to the usual problem of pedestrians walking into posts while talking or texting on mobile devices, people are looking directly up into the midday sun just to power their full-HD phone displays. Officials claim that this only exacerbates the problem, adding that "it is very difficult to watch episodes of 'Who's the Boss?' while also looking directly into the sun."
SIG = Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses
erm...huh?
Agreed.
From translating it maybe?
Self-Energy Converting Sunglasse = NAMBLA?
I lol'd when i see the pic.
is that a man or a woman?
and does the carpet hair come attached to the glasses?
I can't tell either. The hair suggests man. But the lips and what resemble really small boob says woman. Although, a man can have even bigger boobs than that.
Asian with white electric geek glasses..pretty interesting..
I prefer it on a shirt. You can have like a small square solar-panel patch at the back of the shirt below the neck area...it's perfect!
y dont we just make a solar powered ipod O_o
I don't know about you, but many people (including myself) keep their iPod in their pocket..
So by design, it's optimal output is when the wearing is looking into the sun? Sweet.
looks good
GOT MAH STUNNA SHADEZ ON BUT THEM PLAYAS BE FRONTIN
that wouldnt be very useful in cloudy places like maryland and maine. it could be useful in arizona tho..
Why does the Azn tranny punches his/her own chin while tripping on ecstasy and listening to boom noise they mistake for music?
Boy, I had one look at their "solar energy world" and "oil world" and I am convinced this will save the planet!
You can see forever with those infinity shades
There is a market for this: People that stare into the sun.
Wow, that looks uncomfortable... =S
All the negative comments are why geeks (as fantastic as they (we) are) could never push the envelope stylistically like some can).
if there weren't these kinda people with the balls to put stuff like this on no one would look like the dorky hipster people you all are. without people like this the uber geek would not exist and he and she would still look like gates did in his early years.
p.s. p.s. Kanye is ok at best.
I didn't understand what SIG was.... Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses would make.... SECS or SCS. lol
If it were written in English, yes.