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xFocals

 Glasses with zoomable recordable and even internet abilities
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xFocals are glasses (both sun glasses and perscription) wich have upto a 12x optical zoom accessable with a button on the top of the glasses frame and also the ability to take pictures or even record what you are seeing..

the nano-lense would provied you with a display to browse your pictures/recordings or even the interweb, and also the light sensitive tint feature (pretty much explains itself), earphones and a mic attached to the glasses would allow you to browse your mp3's and take your phone calls. A nano-drive would be equipped on the xfocals, for your mp3's, movies, and pictures...

The lense wouldnt be a minature tv screen but some sort of projector or somthing that didnt cause eye cancer...

please post any comments or ideas

—defenestrat3d, Oct 28 2005

Eyewear Monitors http://www.microopt...ducts/HomePage.html
[Zuzu, Nov 03 2005]

*My* idea of what xFocals should be like http://www.eb-rpg-g.../images/cyclops.jpg
[DrCurry, Nov 04 2005]

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       sorry for teh other posts.. didnt even know i made them...
—defenestrat3d, Oct 28 2005
   

       Ah, the magic of technology!   

       Any real idea how you're going to achieve this? (And before you answer, you might want to search both this site and the rest of the Internet for recording and telescopic eyeglasses, and heads-up displays.)
—DrCurry, Oct 28 2005
   

       Didn't I already annotate on this yesterday? I'm pretty sure you aren't [st3f] now.
—hidden truths, Oct 28 2005
   

       Carbon nanotube construction, I hope?
—Laimak, Oct 28 2005
   

       Adjustable lenses of optically neutral gel, constrained within a membrane shaped by magnetics or electrostatic surface tension.
—normzone, Oct 28 2005
   

       Water in sandwich bags, shaped using fishing line tied to guitar tuning machines.
—Worldgineer, Oct 28 2005
   

       Now THATS engineering !
—normzone, Oct 29 2005
   

       Didn't Gibson write about something like this? (Or uhm, any other SF-writer, for that matter)
—Trickytracks, Oct 30 2005
   

       Autobun for [Worldgineer] if he ever works that anno out to a full idea though.
—Trickytracks, Oct 30 2005
   

       And it would make for a great illustration also...Hell, as a corrective lenses wearer, I'd like to own a set.
—normzone, Nov 02 2005
   

       I remember an old NOVA where they were playing with something like this at MIT... hmmmm google? yup, made it to mainstream <see link>.   

       Looking for a wireless one that will let me contact my home server's voice recognition software to do my bidding whilst I feed pigeons at the park. "computer?", "yes, zuzu", "check email. standby." ...ah, just a matter of time.
—Zuzu, Nov 03 2005
   

       but 12x optical zoom? You need a fullscale SLR to do that.
—shernren, Nov 04 2005
   

       Funny how people use the term SLR, due to some single lens reflex cameras on the market that are expensive (and some of which are good). It just means that you're using the same lens to view and to record an image.   

       To do 12x optical zoom you will need a pair of lenses, one of which is fairly large (i.e. gallon size freezer bags).
—Worldgineer, Nov 04 2005
   

       [DrCurry] That second link caught me off guard and cracked me up. Yes! agreed.   

       [def] Giving my + for the name and the off chance they could shoot rays as illustrated.
—Zuzu, Nov 05 2005
   
      
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