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Ultimately, the company wants to put its optics into ordinary prescription glasses. Unlike other attempts at video goggles, many of which look like mini-VCRs strapped onto a viewer's head, MicroOptical's are light and feature a see-through front panel so you can look ahead when you're not watching your YouTube downloads. But until the gear stops drawing stares from passersby, even that won't be enough. It's still tough bringing sci-fi to the streets...
...dress! It doesn’t have workable seams! It doesn’t have zippers! It’s made entirely from recycled bike shorts!” I said, as she dragged me by my leg into the dressing room, which consisted of a see-through curtain and a neon light and looked vaguely like somewhere Jared Leto could be found shooting up heroin...
...forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...
KRAZY GLUE Harry Coover accidentally discovered cyanoacrylate, the substance in Krazy Glue, on two different occasions: first when trying to create a see-through plastic for gun sights during World War II and then years later, in 1951, when at Kodak attempting to develop a heat-resistant polymer for jet canopies. Both times the new substance was too sticky for his needs. Kodak marketed it in 1958 as an all-purpose, supersticky glue. In Vietnam, medics used it to save lives, sealing cuts before injured soldiers reached a hospital...
...cocaine and she’s toting totally whack hipster outfits.The new Hilary and her baby-giraffe thighs parade through the second section of the video in said outfits with a clear microphone in her hand, shaking her head in a woefully uncoordinated manner.She then sits in a see-through chair (wearing a powder blue headband) while the silhouettes of whatever long-haired sell-outs she co-opted into her band banged on see-through instruments. It’s all very mod, minus any pretense of legitimacy.The bridge signals a radical change in tone. The three chords employed throughout...