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Apple Glass AR designed to give homage to the retro glasses Steve Jobs wore!

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Antonio De Rosa and Apple concepts are the perfect smoothies we love and the Italian designer has surprised me again. This time Antonio has gone for a piece of concept that has a lot of nostalgia as well as the historical value attached to it. Meet the Apple glass concept that pays homage to Steve Jobs favorite pair of prescription glasses – the Lunor Classic PP. Apple co-founder was obsessed with this eyewear ever since he got influenced by the ways of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – who apparently shaped up Steve’s very thought process. After the turmoil of being fired by the board of Apple, he got the pair of circular wire-rim glasses to emulate his hero and ultimately returned stronger than ever as the CEO of Apple. Later on, Steve switched to the rimless brand Lunor Ideal i 380.

Combine that iconic piece of historical magnificence with the brewing rumors of the Apple AR eyeglasses, and it makes for a perfect case. Yes, this concept by Antonio makes even more sense since the world is expecting the augmented reality glasses by Apple to be announced as soon as this year. Having them in the Lunor Classic PP theme will be the apt strategy to go for if Apple is reading this piece. The AR glasses are in the second phase of testing since the start of this year and now this concept design weights its worth in gold. The rounded glass frame coincides with the rumor last year by trusted leakster Jon Prosser who claimed that Apple is working on Steve Jobs Heritage Edition AR eyeglasses.

These countered glasses look absolutely stylish for the generation next crowd- with the frame crafted from lightweight aluminum and the lenses made out of polycarbonate material. The technology of these wearables is honed by an array of six cameras with autofocus lenses, an eye-tracking system with HDR, and gesture recognition. The glasses even track your calorie intake and health status. Coming onto the cameras, two cameras are tucked in the nose-piece assemblies and the other two on the opposite side of each nose piece. Other cameras and sensors take a position in the crossbar connecting the two lenses. What I like the most besides the glasses is the AirPods style charging case for them!

Designer: Antonio De Rosa

If Apple ever designed prescription glasses, they’d probably look like these…

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Sleek, bezel-less, and functional. No, I’m not talking about tech, I’m talking about Lance Air’s glasses. These slim, rimless beauties aren’t just your standard pair of prescription frames… they’re products of the digital age. Just the way Apple reinvented the phone, Lance Air is putting its spin on spectacles by making them incredibly slick extensions of your own body. Lance Air’s glasses are lightweight, durable, and are designed for a world surrounded by screens. The lenses fitted into the frames come prescription-ready and are coated with a blue-light filter and an anti-glare film to protect your eyes from overexposure to screens. The lenses are also made to be scratch-resistant, smudge-resistant, dust-repellent, and perhaps the most important feature yet, anti-fog… which means you could wear that face-mask without worrying about condensation fogging your vision.

The Lance Air reinvents spectacles, bringing them into the digital age. The addition of the word Air to the end of the name seems like a rather fun tech-inspired flair (sort of like the MacBook Air or the iPad Air), implying lightness. This lightness is brought about by the use of incredible materials that make the Lance Air spectacles razor-thin yet surprisingly resilient. Crafted from beta-titanium, Lance Air’s frames are designed to be flexible yet still have shape-memory, allowing them to bend and twist but never break. And the idea to make the Lance Air rimless is a clever one too! Referencing the consumer-tech world’s obsession with edge-to-edge displays, Lance Air brings that very same philosophy to its glasses and lenses! Lance Air’s ‘bezel-less’ glasses have the same kind of allure and appeal that edge-less infinity screens on smartphones and other smart devices have. They’re, for all intents and purposes, made to be sleek and futuristic, leaving the clunky acetate frames in the past and ushering in the age of ‘smart’ glasses designed for life around smart devices and screens. The Lance Air frames come in 6 different styles with 5 metal colors and infinite customization as far as the lenses themselves go. You can choose between single-vision, progressive, and plano lenses, and if you want them tinted, you’ve got an additional 6 colors to choose from. Lance gives you the option of using your phone’s AR feature to try the frames out before you choose a pair that suits your face, and when the frames eventually do reach you, they’ll come along with a complimentary protective carry-case in a sleek white box with an unboxing experience that should put most smartphones to shame!

Designer: Lance Team

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Lance Air – Your Everyday Smart Luxury Glasses

The Lance Air glasses are timeless, light designs, suitable for wearing every day, all day long without feeling any discomfort: no margins, no harmful blue light, no eye-strain.

Flexible – Smart Metal – Say goodbye to easily breakable, heavy, uncomfortable frames.

More Than Simple Glasses

All of the frames’ arms are made of flexible beta-titanium. Two of the designs, Monceau & Nouvel, are entirely made of beta-titanium, ensuring total flexibility, even for the bridge.

Different Uses of Lance Air Glasses

Using advanced optical software and industry-leading machinery, Lance can handle the most complicated corrections with an extraordinary level of accuracy and optical clarity, including digital free-form lenses.

Ultra Fade Lenses

This lens technology adapts to the condition of the light around you with 100% UV protection. Essentially this means you have 2 pairs of glasses in 1! If you add progressives then you have 4 glasses in 1 along with the blue light filter.

Super Sharp Lenses

Reduce the glare and see 10x times better than before. Lance Air Glasses will help you improve your sleep, reduce headaches due to the long screen hours and maximize your focus while boosting your life quality.

Correction Lenses

You’ll be able to fill in your prescription and choose your desired lenses, either Sharp or Fade. Their prescriptions cover values from 0 to +/-8 as well as progressive lenses.

Nanotechnology Coatings





The nanotechnology coatings are acting as a shield against blue light coming from your daily exposure to screens. The main source of HEV light in our lives is the harmful blue-violet light emitted by our digital screens. From TVs to tablets, computers to phones, we’re constantly exposing ourselves to the unnatural blue light. Having Sharp Lenses on your Lance Air Glasses will limit the amount of blue light that enters your eyes, making your screen time more pleasant.

Virtual Try Mirror





Check out Lance’s Instagram and try your favorite frames through their Virtual Try Mirror. You’ll definitely find the one that suits you best.

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Oakley finally designed a spectacle-friendly N95 mask that prevents your glasses from fogging up

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It’s obviously in Oakley’s best interests to make face-masks that accommodate spectacles! Considering that more than 75% of the human adult population wears spectacles, and that fogged glasses can be such a deterring factor when it comes to masks, the opportunity to make a spectacles-friendly mask has been around for quite some time. As a pioneer in the eyewear (and sportswear) industry, Oakley was perfectly positioned to tackle this problem head-on, and I’m sort of surprised they didn’t launch this sooner! Meet the MSK3, a face-mask with replaceable N95 filters, and a dedicated eyewear channel along the nose that lets you comfortably wear spectacles without them fogging up.

The Oakley MSK3 is a clever solution to a largely ignored problem. The mask comes with a mesh front that looks stylish and basically gives you the feeling of breathability, while a high-performance, disposable filter sits behind it, giving you over 95% filtration efficiency of particles down to the size of 0.3 microns. Adjustable straps allow you to calibrate the mask to the size of your face, while the MSK3’s most innovative feature, the redesigned nose-bridge, ensures a perfect seal around the nasal area. The silicone nose-bridge also has a dedicated eyewear channel – a thin strip that lets you perfectly wear your specs over your mask, sealing the nasal area. This seal ensures that A. your spectacles don’t slip off while running or jogging, and B. exhaled air doesn’t leak from the area around your nose, fogging your glasses. The result is a mask that’s impeccably designed to solve the one MAJOR problem nobody thought of solving… and sure, you can look at the product from Oakley’s obvious profit angle, but then again, if it means a better, safer, and more comfortable mask-wearing experience for me and 75% of all adults, I guess that’s a pretty remarkable achievement too!

Designer: Oakley

These ergonomic glasses were designed specifically for Black People’s wider nose profiles

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It’s weird to think that a design as basic and universal as spectacles or sunglasses can have a racial bias. The truth, however, is that like almost every product you see, spectacles often are designed for the default human, which is, in most cases, a caucasian male or female. Spectacle brand Reframd is correcting that racial bias by designing spectacles specifically for the facial profiles of Black people. The eyewear takes into account the placement and shape of the nose in relation to the eyes – features that distinctly set all races apart.

Most black people have much wider noses, causing spectacles to either pinch the nose-bridges or sit at a slightly higher level, resulting in distorted vision. “At some point, I realized the problem wasn’t with me or my face, but with the product itself,” says Ackeem Ngwenya, product designer and founder of Reframd. “It became clear that the product was not made for people like me, and that I could do something to change that.” The company was founded a mere 5 years ago, although Ngwenya says it’s rooted in years’ worth of “personal frustrations” and an “unwillingness to just accept the world as it is”.

Reframd’s range of spectacles feature a wider nose-bridge, and smaller lens-rings spaced further apart. Reframd works by using a parametric algorithm that runs in a 3D program. Put simply, customers use the front-facing camera on their smartphones to capture their “face landmarks”, reports DesignWeek “Essentially, it’s a pair of glasses that adapt in response to different inputs such as head width, bridge height, pantoscopic tilt, temple length, and more,” says Ngwenya. “These parameters drive frame creation for a particular person and that frame is then sent to our production partner and made for the customer.” This allows each frame to be custom-made for its wearer, ensuring a more personally-suited pair of spectacles that prioritize comfort and break the racial bias around the notion that a product can simply be made to ‘universally’ serve everyone, including people that weren’t considered during its design process.

Designer: Reframd

Tentacled Cocktail Glasses: Sipping Under the Sea

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Looking for the perfect cocktail glasses to compliment your ocean-themed home bar? How about these octopus glasses from Cerahome? Each glass holds four ounces of your favorite cocktail (or poison if you’re hosting a murder mystery) and would look great in the hand of Ursula while she steals your voice in exchange for legs.

Available from Amazon for $25 a pair (affiliate link), the glasses have five points of contact on their bases, making them “very stable and not easy to knock down.” Is that a challenge? Because I once accidentally knocked over a full beer keg.

Obviously, these are going to be perfect for the Enchantment Under The Sea dance-themed party I’m going to throw. We’ll dance and sip cocktails from our tentacled glasses and quote Back To The Future all night dressed as our favorite characters from the movies! You know I started writing this as a joke, but the more I think about it, it might actually be the best idea I’ve ever had.

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Creative green glassware stacks up to look like a cactus!

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I wouldn’t really call this Nature-Inspired Design but there’s surely something creative and quirky about how the Saguaro Glasses stack up to look like a majestic tree-like Saguaro cactus, native to the deserts of Arizona (commonly found in cartoons and even the ‘No Internet’ game built into Google Chrome)

DOIY’s Saguaro collection comes as a set of cups, mugs, and tumblers with fluted bodies and cactus-branch shaped handles. Colored in a remarkably eye-catching green, the glassware stack up on each other when not in use, turning your kitchen-counter into the backdrop of a Western movie. When you do need them for sipping something like Orange Juice, or something more appropriate like ‘Green’ Tea, the branch-shaped handles serve as a nifty functional detail, being decorative when you want, and useful when you need them. Don’t worry though, this adorable set of cactoid-crockery doesn’t come with spikes and definitely don’t need watering. Moreover, they’re freezer and dishwasher-safe too. Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote sold separately!

Designer: DOIY Design

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These new Snapchat Goggles use a more classic circular frame with dual camera-lenses

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These whimsical pair of spectacles aren’t your average eyesight-correcting instruments. They’re built for a more socially engaging purpose. The Snap Goggles are the spiritual successor to the Snap Spectacles from Snapchat. Designed as a concept by Scandinavian-studio Swift Creatives, the Snap Goggles give the original Spectacles a design refresh, with a more contemporary-yet-funky circular frame, complete with a dual-color palette.

The Snap Goggles come with tinted eyeglasses, but unlike in the original Snap Spectacles, these glasses don’t have the dual-camera lenses cutting into the eyepieces. Instead, the tinted circular eyepieces exist independently, with the two camera lenses resting on the end of the temple-stems. The result is a pair of spectacles that look funky yet contemporary, with the camera lenses being placed slightly further apart, but in a manner that makes much more sense visually.

The AR Goggles operate almost exactly like their predecessors, but come with the ability to view the Snap effects right inside the glasses (instead of on your phone). The eyepieces are, in fact, transparent displays, giving you the ability to see the holographic projections inside the glasses themselves. The glasses power on as soon as the temple stems are opened, allowing contact points on the stem and the frame to connect and boot the spectacles. Obviously, the Snap Goggles are just a fan-made concept for now, but they do paint a pretty great picture of what Snapchat’s vision for AR glasses should be in the future – a pair of chic looking frames built with pretty good cameras, depth-sensing and motion-tracking AI, transparent augmented-reality displays, and a nifty spectacle case to charge your Snap Goggles when you’re not wearing them!

Designer: Swift Creatives Studio