Glasses

Forget heads-up displays, Mini is hoping to bring technology to your car in the form of a pair of connected eyewear. Called Mini Augmented Vision, the smart glasses work sort of like Google Glass and project information in front of you relevant to your drive.

Fashion and fitness enthusiasts will have a new way to capture their lives later this year. British tech firm Lyte is releasing a new range of video-capturing eyewear. Fashion Glass and Sports Glass versions of the shades will be available.

We've all become used to facial recognition technology helping us to tag our friends in photos online. There may be times, however, that you don't want to be recognized like this. With that in mind, security firm AVG has unveiled a prototype pair of glasses that combat facial recognition systems.

Glasses with transitional lenses are a neat idea in theory, but they have some shortcomings in practice. That's why researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing an alternative – clear eyeglasses that can be manually tinted into sunglasses, by the user.

The sexiness of the Google Glass brand is currently about as sexy as one looks while wearing the awkward gear. But smaller startups are still exploring the potential of augmented reality smartglasses, and we got a look at one of them at CES 2015.

Much of the hype surrounding smart glasses stems from their ability to inform us of our environment. But for Japanese company Jins, what these devices can tell us about ourselves might prove just as valuable. The Jins Meme eyewear alerts the user when fatigue levels are on the rise.

IceLiners could be the perfect solution to creating ice-cold cocktails which stay almost-frozen for as long as it takes to drink them. IceLiners is simple, comprising a silicone mold used to line a glass with frozen water, fruit juice, or mixer suitable for consuming with your favorite cocktail.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley claim to have created a prototype vision-correcting matrix that they claim fits directly to a screen and negates the need for eyeglasses or remedial lenses for farsighted people. This may also eventually help other, more serious, eye problems.

Swiss startup Cliris SA has taken to Kickstarter to fund the development of Cliris, a sleek-looking, automatic eyewear cleaner that uses ultrasound technology and a biodegradable solution to clean, disinfect, anti-fog treat, dry and (optionally) scent your spectacles in only four minutes.

Researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico have developed a pair of glasses that use a combination of ultrasound, GPS, stereoscopic vision and artificial intelligence to help the visually impaired to get around.

The Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab is developing a new 3D video projection system that doesn't require glasses and provides different users different perspective angles of the same object.

Last year, German laser weapons hobbyist Patrick Priebe built a working replica of Ironman's laser gauntlet. Now, he's paid another visit to the world of superheroes, creating his own take on the "energy beam"-emitting eyewear worn by the X-Men's Cyclops.