Calvin Klein gets into the Crapgadget biz
By Laura June 
posted Jul 15th 2009 11:07AM
posted Jul 15th 2009 11:07AM
Yup, we see a ton of flash drives round here -- but this is the first one we've seen from the august house of Calvin Klein. Somehow, these sunglasses with a 4GB flash drive stuffed into the right stem are simultaneously uninteresting and horrifying to us... though we certainly enjoy the mental imagery of spotting someone sporting these while half a stem-piece is jammed into their laptop. If you're enough of a fashion victim to consider purchasing these bad boys, they'll be unleashed on the waiting world in October, and run you about $200.
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First, Awful looking sunglasses.
Second, Only 4 gigs?
I see what you did there...
Second, Is not that bad.
It would be funny if I had realized it would be the first post. I was just organizing my opinions.
i was all ready to see where to buy them until i saw the price! :O
007 time
Pointless. Why not have a bluetooth headset built in instead? There's zero practicality in wearing 4gigs of your storage precariously above your ear.
My how the mediocre have fallen.
all your base
If you manage to lose the cap on THIS one, you must look really stupid.
A tiny piece of string would pretty much solve the problem...
Come on, they could have done better on the design job there, unless black rim eye glasses are making a comback from the 60's
They are. Everyone's wearing them this summer.
Yeah, take off your Oakleys and look around man.
Actually, 'tards wearing neon-framed plastic glasses like you'd buy at a gas station in 1988 is the trend this year.
I think it's okay to go ahead and shoot 'em.
You call them tards, but those are the exact kind of people reading this website to begin with! Now that its "trendy" to be a nerd.
Bond, James Bond. Put this on a regular pair of glasses and it's the perfect espionage tool!
Perfect for passing through Customs, who nowadays reserve the right (!) to take any mass storage devices from you and search them.
But can you blame them? You may have a killer porn collection or a good movie on your laptop that
they haven't watched yet.
Carmichael, Charles Carmichael.
I hate Bryce Larkin.
I'm surprised that it's not a diamond studded USB/FireWire/eSata/Ethernet/Wifi Dingdong(doe).
now if the bridge had a hidden camera that recorded to the built in flash...you'd still look just as stupid, maybe if you looked like elliott gould
i guess its better then hiding your USB drives in a thermos
... or in your nether regions.
yes, they do look pretty lame.. BUT, these glasses actually ARE making a come back.. along with some other really bad looking sunglasses.. really lame though for CC to get into this sort of business... chances are, anyone who would purchase these, already has an 8gb+ usb drive... so.. thumbs down to CC for this one
CC?
cK**
Oh please, can't you just let poor Circuit City rest in peace?
I clearly need to spend money on expensive sunglasses so I can feign coolness while storing those many important documents of mine. I am a nerd AND I am stylish. Look at me!
Bre? Is it you?
$200?! I can do that for $30. USB stick + Fugly 7-11 sunglasses + tape.
Ta-da! Looks better, too.
Calvin Klein's no friend of mine,
I don't wear his name on my behind.
... or noggin.
whats wrong with these? i don't see anything wrong with styling, if anything this is the "wayfarer" look that so many people are going for now. plus double functionality? how could you not love stylish retina defense and brain retention in one neat little package? sure the price is ridiculous, but considering most designer glasses go for $200+ regardless, this would be a buy with included drive.
Stylish, indeed. Thanks, I'll just run away, fast as I can.
yea.. them too... i'm a tech guy.. not a fashion guy.. lol
i'm not turned away by the price at all, like some ppl have voiced.. good sunglasses cost 200 bucks.. i have an eye condition which causes me to have to wear sunglasses ALL the time.. so, I invest in good glasses.. most money i've spent on shades was $400.. then one of my student accidentally broke them... so now i stick to the 100-200 dollar range.. ppl, you cant protect your eyes with the cheap 10 dollar glasses you get at the gas station... your eyes are too important, protect them properly
What tech geek would want this? We stay inside all day!
Now we know where Kim Jong Il is keeping all of the secrets they are stealing...
So that's why David Caruso keeps taking his sunglasses off...
Now you can loose your sunglasses AND your data
These would look cool with a piece of white tape between the lenses.
CRAPGADGET. I think that's my very favorite word in the Engadget lexicon. It's one of those words that just has a great sound and rhythm to it. CRAPGADGET.
It's like CLUSTERF**K. Just sorta rolls off the tongue.
I was just about to post the same thing about the word... LOL
You beat me to it. :-)
Now that is an abomination. There are so many alternatives in ways to carry a thumb drive, so this attempt seems fairly pathetic. I could see if you were able to wear the sunglasses while using the drive, but disassembling the frame is downright crappy. And for $200, no way.
You have to imagine the person wearing it in a casino, I think you guy are not doing that.
Incidentally over here CK is all $3 rip-offs and worn exclusively by trailer trash and poor people from weird countries you don't visit without getting some form of hepatitis during the visit.
Maybe if people ignore it, it will go away.
I have a feeling that will happen without anyone even trying.
these could actually be a pretty good way to sneak a usb memory stick into a building that has security prohibiting such devices. sneak it in, download your data, take it out with you. Now anyone can be a criminal!
these are kinda hot! Sidney Bristow would kill in these. $200 is not much at all to pay for designer sunglasses
ha, she'll kill in anything! :D
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'Calvin Klein' will forever make me think 'Marty McFly' :o
I think they are sweet looking. Also very convenient for someone like me who wears their sunglasses at night.
Great title!