Smart sunglasses - GIF

[Altair]

Smart sunglasses.




Previously:

Polarized fishing glasses - GIF
Night vision glasses with color - GIF
Mixed reality construction smartglasses - video
Smart glass-aided corner shot - GIF

[nova_robotics]

That's pretty neat. The app is just an unnecessary extra step. The things are already going to be on your face and the button is right there. Having to pull out your phone, unlock it, open an app, wait for it to connect to the glasses, then press the darken or lighten button is just silly. The glasses are good though.

[IntheGroove]

I remember back in the '80s, when I was cool, I had some sunglasses that were auto-tinting. They looked good but they were slow to change from dark to light...

[Frank S]

That's pretty neat. The app is just an unnecessary extra step. The things are already going to be on your face and the button is right there. Having to pull out your phone, unlock it, open an app, wait for it to connect to the glasses, then press the darken or lighten button is just silly. The glasses are good though.

You need to remember a lot of people are staring at their phones 24/7

[desbromilow]

kinda related - has anyone here got experience using the autodark welding goggles? I'm used to using autodark welding helmets, but I am seeing goggles popping up in my feeds from time to time.
Are they designed for welding? or just brazing?
any good?

Thanks,
Des

[nova_robotics]

kinda related - has anyone here got experience using the autodark welding goggles? I'm used to using autodark welding helmets, but I am seeing goggles popping up in my feeds from time to time.
Are they designed for welding? or just brazing?
any good?

Thanks,
Des

I bought a set a while ago. They were on sale so I bought 'em. It's just a normal cheap auto-darkening lens in a different frame. They're not good for much unless you're wearing SFP 1000000 sunscreen on the rest of your face. Maybe some of them are good for using a torch, but the ones I have are level 10 or something.

[desbromilow]

I bought a set a while ago. They were on sale so I bought 'em. It's just a normal cheap auto-darkening lens in a different frame. They're not good for much unless you're wearing SFP 1000000 sunscreen on the rest of your face. Maybe some of them are good for using a torch, but the ones I have are level 10 or something.

Thanks Nova! I figured that it might be the case, but no harm in asking.

[Frank S]

kinda related - has anyone here got experience using the autodark welding goggles? I'm used to using autodark welding helmets, but I am seeing goggles popping up in my feeds from time to time.
Are they designed for welding? or just brazing?
any good?

Thanks,
Des

I wish they would have been invented back when I was working on a lot of cat equipment.

The 631 and 657 scrapers had a bad habit of getting cracks in the cross tube that joins the goose neck of the bowl to the tractor the tube was about 18 to 20 inches in diameter with an opening under where the goose neck joined it. By the time you got your head and one arm up in there, there was little room for anything else. The best way to repair them was to break the machine down and remove the draft arms from the tube remove the goose neck form the tractor and flip the thing upside down. About a weeklong process when all was said and done. But I was known to be a glutton for punishment. I made me a leather sock helmet and mounted cutting goggles to it similar to the ones you can buy like this.

I would reach up in there armed with a full set of leathers and the sock helmet gouge out the cracks with a torch to about an inch deep clean them out with a bur on a die grinder. Change to a #10 lens and weld up the crack then form a pair of half rings about 2 inches wide and an inch thick and weld them over the weld where the crack once was. Turning a 4-to-5-day job sometimes requiring 3 men an overhead crane and a huge forklift into a 1-man job taking at most 2 days, guess who never got the extra money the company was saving though. But to be fair I did make $5.00 an hour more than any of the other contract welders

[tonyfoale]

You need to remember a lot of people are staring at their phones 24/7

So why do they need sunglasses?

[Frank S]

So why do they need sunglasses?

Because they still haven't learned how to reduce the brightness of their screens