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I keep setting my glasses down when I'm in my studio or talking to students in college. Being in an art college, these are extemely busy environments, characterised by a mulitpilcity of small items of all shapes, sizes and colours. Once deposited, any new object added to what's already there simply disappears,
including my glasses.
Grasshopper Glasses solves this problem. This is how they work:
This idea extends my previous posting of Lazarus Glasses (see link) by adding another function to their existing motorised legs, so it's best to read that first to understand the mechanism.
When your glasses are lost, you now simply use your phone to send them a "reveal yourself" signal. This causes the motorised legs to jerk dramatically into action, causing the glasses to leap up clear of their busy surroundings. Several other motions can also be activated such as twitching and vibrating.
Inevitable deluxe version features desynchronised LEDs that flash on the tips of the legs as they momentarily fly through the air above all of the chaos.
Lazarus Glasses now with leaping grasshopper legs
Lazarus_27s_20Legs_20Glasses
Uses the same mechanism, with some added features [xenzag, Oct 03 2024]
You can wear the glasses while you're riding this ...
Grasshopper_20cycle
[normzone, Oct 07 2024]
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Well I say, it's just not cricket. |
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Not enough scratches on your lenses for you?
Also, if someone phones your glasses while you're wearing them do they jump off your face? |
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I do sympathise. Losing your glasses is annoying, because you need your glasses to find your glasses. Maybe that's less of an issue if you're long-sighted.
I think the trick is to have very specific places to put them.
Someone once gave me an artificial nose for that purpose, but it was annoying because it kept falling over. |
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I could see this with a simple spring release activated by a micromotor and some drone tech. |
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Even better if you can also use the glasses to signal your phone when you've lost it. |
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What about just flashing? Some fiber-optic frames could do major signaling. Light signals use much less power than kinetics, but not as startling. We'll work on that. |
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Simply flashing would be better than the current nothing, but this is the halfbakery where even the legs on the glasses could look like grasshopper legs. |
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