These Oakley x Spiderman unofficial sunglasses are cooler than any smart wearable ever made

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There is a piece of Spider-Man trivia that has floated around fan forums for years, the kind of claim that gets repeated so often it starts to feel like fact. The story goes that the mask eyepieces worn by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were built using actual Oakley lens material, sourced by the prop houses that made the suits. I cannot verify that, and neither, as far as I can tell, can anyone who has posted it online. It lives mostly in old Oakley collector threads, secondhand and uncredited, more urban legend than documented history. But myth or not, it is the exact reason a new pair of unofficial Spider-Man sunglasses from designer Ivan Vanacore make immediate, satisfying sense.

Vanacore’s concept takes the raised red webbing off Andrew Garfield’s suit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and wraps it around an Oakley silhouette, ellipse logo included at the temple. The web lines run outward from the nose bridge in the exact pattern the mask uses across the face, and the lens shape borrows the exaggerated, teardrop eye cutouts that made that particular suit stand out from Raimi’s earlier, more restrained design. There is no confirmation this is an actual product, a licensed collaboration, or anything beyond a designer’s personal project. Vanacore has not said whether these exist as more than renders, and neither Oakley nor Sony has commented. For now, treat it as a very convincing what if.

Designer: Ivan Vanacore

Vanacore did not default to the Maguire suit or even the more famous Tom Holland suit with the shapeshifting eyes, he went straight for ASM2’s version, the eyes pulled wide at the temples, the webbing raised enough to read as sculptural rather than printed. Garfield’s Spiderman never really got its due, it got swept under the rug while Sony just decided to put enough effort into the series to retain rights, promptly canceling it after 2 movies to focus on a Venom series. It’s only after Garfield made an appearance in No Way Home that people really objectively appreciated how well he embodied the role of Peter Parker.

Now the honest part. Would these actually be wearable? Eh. Those narrow lens openings look amazing in a photo and would be a nightmare for peripheral vision the second you tried to drive in them. And all that raised texture is basically a dust and grime trap waiting to happen. Cool concept, rough real life.

But none of that matters because the internet already wants a pair, and honestly, same. We’ve seen a ton of fan concepts that invent an entire new universe from scratch just to justify existing. This one barely has to try that hard. It just points at two things that already looked like they belonged together and goes “well?”

Whether Oakley ever picks this up is anyone’s guess, corporate legal teams have killed way cooler ideas than this and I’m sure Marvel and Oakley’s lawyers are definitely going to butt heads instead of collaborating earnestly to give the fans what they want. Until then it just lives as a really good What If, and somewhere a costume designer from 2014 is getting way more attention than they ever expected for a movie most people forgot.

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Apple may launch a “Watch Air” screen-less health tracker to compete with Whoop and Fitbit Air

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For anyone who thinks Apple would never launch a screenless Watch, let me remind you of two, nay, three things. First, the iPod Shuffle – a product that baffled many, but delighted even more. For anyone who couldn’t afford an iPod Classic or Nano, the screenless Shuffle was the instant next pick. You couldn’t do much, play-pause, move across a randomized roster of tracks, and adjust volume. As limiting as this experience was, it still a smash success, selling 10 million units in just its first year.

The second bit of evidence I’d like to offer is the rumor that Apple’s been working on a smart ring to take on Samsung, Oura, and a bunch of other players that are slowly annexing this particular domain. The third is just a follow-up to the second – While smart rings are gaining a fair bit of popularity, Apple’s true competition is coming from an absolutely unexpected source – a small upstart called Whoop that’s captured the fitness band market, with big names sporting Whoop bands. Think of Whoop as the Beats by Dre of the fitness world… and you know what happened to Beats by Dre, right?

Designer: Tech Town

Apple Watch 'Air' health tracker concept in Cosmic Orange colorway

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported in early August that Apple’s industrial design team has spent roughly the past year exploring what he called, in his own words, “something that transforms the product for a new era,” comparing the scale of the rethink to the iPhone’s jump from a slab to a foldable. A screenless band sits at the center of that exploration, alongside a round display concept Gurman says is unlikely to ship, plus new price tiers above the Ultra and Hermès range and below the SE. Nothing here is close to final. No sensors, no name, no price, no date. Apple hasn’t committed to any of it, and Gurman’s own reporting frames the screenless band as the most plausible of the bunch precisely because the rest of the wearable market has already proven the category works.

Apple Watch 'Air' health tracker concept in Mist Blue colorway

Apple has quietly, well, not quietly, actually already built the brain this device would need, and shipped it on your wrist this month. The Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 launched September 18 with a new Readiness app, a daily score from 0 to 10 built from recent activity, overnight vitals, and sleep, closing with a recommendation of Recover, Pace Yourself, Ready, or Go For It. Apple now samples HRV every five minutes, a figure it says is 24 times denser than what Series 11 could manage, and splits the reading into overall HRV and a Recovery HRV compared against your personal baseline rather than a population average. That is, functionally, a Whoop screen for readiness with the screen still attached to a watch. Strip the display away, keep the sensor stack and the scoring engine, and you have the pitch for a Watch Air in one sentence.

Apple Watch 'Air' health tracker concept in Titanium colorway

The person pushing hardest for that strip down sits above Apple’s entire health division. Eddy Cue took over health and fitness oversight from outgoing COO Jeff Williams in late 2025 and has reportedly told colleagues Apple needs to move faster in the category. Cue’s personal habit gives the story its bite: he wears both Oura and Whoop, executive shorthand for admitting the Health app hasn’t caught up to the devices its own leadership prefers on their wrists. An ambitious AI coaching project internally called Mulberry was scaled back after Cue’s arrival, redirected instead toward folding more of its intelligence straight into the core Health app rather than a paid add on layer.

The market Apple would be entering has filled in fast. Google’s Fitbit Air launched in May at $99.99, a 5.2 gram pod with no screen and no buttons, just a double tap gesture and a battery LED. Garmin’s Cirqa followed at $199.99 with a single physical side button and no subscription requirement, offering roughly 10 days of battery against the Air’s 7. Whoop 5.0 anchors the premium end at 14 days of battery, but the hardware means nothing without an active membership starting around $199 a year, the one structural weakness Apple’s own retail model was built to avoid.

Apple Watch 'Air' health tracker concept without the wristband

A round Apple Watch is, per Gurman, unlikely to happen, and the smart ring has been shelved and revived in rumor form so many times it barely qualifies as news anymore. The screenless band is different. It borrows a software system Apple has already shipped, it targets a price umbrella Apple has never fully occupied below the SE, and it answers a habit Cue is reportedly living out loud every morning. None of that guarantees a 2027 launch. But the Shuffle taught Apple that taking something away can sell just as well as adding something new, and this time, the thing it would be taking away is the one part of the Apple Watch nobody asked to keep charging every single night.

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This 672-pound camper lets you escape without needing a heavy-duty tow vehicle

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Something is appealing about a camper trailer that isn’t desperate to become your second home on wheels. Aliner seems to be leaning into that idea with the return of the Alite, a tiny A-frame trailer that disappeared from the company’s lineup nearly a decade ago. Now back for 2027, it weighs just 672 pounds dry and measures 11 feet long, making it the smallest and lightest hard-sided camper Aliner currently builds.

The Alite originally arrived in the late 1990s and stayed in production until 2017. Its return wasn’t prompted by a new camping trend or a redesign strategy. According to Aliner, customers and dealers kept asking for it after production ended, eventually giving the company enough reason to bring the little trailer back.

Designer: Aliner

The flat-pack towable camper proportions are what make the whole idea interesting. Folded down, the A-frame has a relatively easy-to-manage footprint for storage and towing. Once opened at a campsite, the roof rises into a full-height interior with an 80-inch peak, and Aliner claims the setup takes about 30 seconds. That is a useful distinction for a trailer intended for quick weekend trips. Inside, there isn’t much wasted space because there isn’t much available to waste. Two benches sit along the sides, with the 62-by-24-inch roadside bench and 41-by-14-inch curbside bench converting into a 58-by-76-inch bed. There is also 2.7 cubic feet of exterior storage at the front, plus another 24-by-15-inch storage compartment accessible through a baggage door.

That layout says quite a bit about who the Alite is for. There is no attempt to squeeze in a bathroom, full kitchen, or the increasingly elaborate collection of amenities found in larger travel trailers. It gives you somewhere to sleep, somewhere to sit, a solid roof, storage for the basics, and protection from the weather. The rest of the campsite remains outside. The low weight also changes the equation between the camper and the vehicle pulling it. The Alite has a 1,100-pound GVWR, and Aliner says it can be towed by essentially all vehicles. That doesn’t mean every car can safely tow a loaded trailer, of course; the vehicle’s rated towing capacity still matters, as does everything added to those 672 pounds once the camping gear goes in.

The trailer rides on 14-inch aluminum wheels and uses 30-amp electrical service, with a 25-foot power cord included. A lockable entry door adds a little security without complicating the basic setup. The 2027 Alite made its consumer debut at America’s Largest RV Show in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and is expected to reach Aliner’s nationwide dealer network this winter. The Alite Base has a price of $17,650. At a time when compact trailers increasingly resemble miniature apartments, the Alite goes in the other direction. It is a bed and shelter on wheels, designed to get you to the campsite without demanding a large vehicle, or a large storage space. For some campers, that may be exactly the point!

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