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SALT LAKE CITY -- If Corey Hart wasn't enough to make wearing your sunglasses at night cool, these sunglasses certainly will.
They are called Active-i spy glasses and they can discretely record whatever your eyes can see and ears can hear. With the sleek design and super-spy technology I'm surprised we didn't see Tom Cruise sporting these in his Mission Impossible: movies.
Well, actually there might be a reason why. The small pin-hole for the camera, which sits just above the bridge of the nose, records every little movement your head makes and every little ambient noise.
Imagine Justin Beber (before the drastic haircut) wearing these and flipping that obnoxious hair to the side every 15 seconds.
And we thought hand-held home movies were bad. Just when we thought dad had already recorded everything- we are going to start getting different angles of everything.
The concept is actually really cool and the video quality isn't all that bad, but without some sort of stabilizing mechanism you're not going to get a lot of useable video. But, that may not be the point. Some of the best videos, some of the most popular viral videos are of sub-par quality. Capturing that moment may just be enough.
And, there is even an attachment to let you watch back the video or look through your pictures. Now, that's cool.
Then again, you might also see your nosy neighbor wearing these things trying to get you in trouble with the HOA.
By the way, Active-i's slogan is, "What you see is what you keep," so these likely won't be looked upon too kindly in Las Vegas, where what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Email: gjohns@ksl.com
