Everything Glasses
I’ve made a lot of bad buying decisions in my life time (as evidenced by my newfound interest in auctioning off the closets-full of crap that I’ve accumulated.) However, I’ve made a few great ones, and I’m thinking that I should occasionally blog them, for general edification. This particular one fits the general bucket of simple-yet-awesome product recommendations on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, so I’ll write the rest of this post in a form ready for him to excerpt.
Last Spring, I lost a pair of very nice sunglasses to some overzealous outdoor dancing. In the mourning that followed, I vowed that for my next pair I would put function before form. After searching around, I decided to try out a pair of Mag-Safe Photochromic Safety Glasses. This piece of eyewear features:
- Lenses that run from almost perfectly clear to a nice, dark tint in the sun.
- Nearly 100% UVA/B protection
- An ANSI Z87.1+ rating, which means that they’re shatter-proof even when struck by a 1/4″ steel ball at 150 feet/second.
- A price tag of less than $40
I’ve now been using these sunglasses for the last six months, and they fit my life perfectly. They protect me from wind when I’m biking, day or night, shield my eyes when I go to the machine shop when I work on False Profit Labs projects, and keep off glare when I drive. They also look pretty good for safety glasses, considering, so I don’t mind wearing them around.
UPDATE: The Cool Tools people also sent me this link to the same glasses on Amazon.
UPDATE: The Cool Tools people put me on their blog. They were really thorough; the edited description you see on their site is the result of many back-and-forth emails where they asked all kinds of detailed questions about the glasses.
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