Solar panel-packin' sunglasses power your gizmos, make Kanye inordinately envious

Before you get all "Oh, that comment was so heartless" on us, we will say that the spectacles you're peeping above are still a concept for now, though we wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that Kanye himself eventually funds their commercialization. At any rate, designers Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong should be mighty proud of their concoction, which integrates dye solar cells into fashion-forward sunglasses in order to power your pocketable gadgets. Put simply, the SIG (Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses) convert the sunlight that they'll obviously see into usable energy, though it should be understood that these could give the impression that you're rockin' a head-mounted display. And we wouldn't want that, now would we?

[Via Engadget Polska]

[JoePalma Posted Dec 28th 2008 3:19AM]

but they will not make you the voice of this generation of this decade

[MRs Murns Posted Dec 28th 2008 3:35AM]

Sweet, I almost fell of my fucking chair.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2008 3:31AM]

I wear my sunglasses at night...

Goddamnit, my Zune died!

[phildo Posted Dec 28th 2008 3:32AM]

First off, I don't know about any of you guys, but i find it hard to read whats on my "pocketable gadgets" when its very bright outside, and while im wearing Huge Bug-eyed sunglasses might render it impossible. Who would want these? and who would want a power cord running from their face to their "pocketable gadget"? what it you drop it? does your several hundred dollar ipod or whatever go with it?

[Rena Posted Dec 28th 2008 3:44AM]

So solar panels that size being used to power pocket gadgets? They must provide what, 5 minutes extra runtime?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2008 4:20AM]

Self-Energy... feeding off your cool...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2008 9:02AM]

Didn't the Willie Wonka sunglasses fad die out two years ago?

[Dr Del Posted Dec 28th 2008 2:05PM]

Would rather just have a *real* solar charger for my gadgets and not look like an idiot. My one from Devotec works fine, and is 40 bucks.
http://www.devotecindustries.com/product_detail/solar_charger

[terabithia Posted Dec 29th 2008 3:59AM]

Solar charger in sun glasses. wonderful
I also think solar charger in backpack like this : http://www.laptops-battery.co.uk/solar-battery-charger.htm