We’ve all seen the massive range of items that have been turned into USB sticks. Whether it’s an actual twig that can store 2GB of memory, or whether it’s a fake piece of wire to deter thieves. There are hundreds of them out there that you can buy and now there is a new addition to the list of strange USB sticks.
This latest addition to the wacky USB stick list is a pair of sunglasses, Calvin Klein sunglasses to be correct. You might be scratching your head wondering how they managed to squeeze a USB memory stick into a pair of designer glasses. Well although it doesn’t really make a huge amount of sense why, it’s still pretty cool how they have done it. They have added the USB storage into the end of the right arm of the glasses. All you need to do is pull the end of the arm off, plug it into either your PC, laptop, Mac or netbook, and then you will be able to store a massive 4GB of memory into the frame of your sunglasses.
Athough it seems strange to add a USB into something like sunglasses, but it does give them a unique selling point over a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses. Although, when you think about the uses, if you are on a beach and require some extra storage space for your netbook, all you have to do is dismantle your glasses and you can store all you want.
Of course the biggest and most obvious downside to these glasses is that once you start using the USB storage, you can’t wear them at the same time, unless you are able to use the one arm and balance them on your head. Also, the connection to hold the arm as one must have to be strong or it could fall apart as you take the sunglasses off. Also, I’m not sure if the USB is waterproof because if you’re using them on the beach, you don’t want to loose all your data if you get splashed, you certainly wouldn’t have that problem with Police sunglasses.
I guess the glasses have their advantages and disadvantages, and if you really don’t want to carry around a seperate memory stick with you, this would be your best option. However, they will cost you a fair bit. $199 is how much they will cost, I assume you are paying the majority of that for the glasses and not the 4GB storage.