Dr. Nakamats, the world’s most prolific (more than 3500 patents) inventor, and winner of the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition, had just obtained yet another patent. His Extra-functional eyeglasses function as traditional eyeglasses do, and also perform extra services for the person wearing them. The invention exists in several different flavors:
- Night-walking glasses, which provide light when the surroundings are dark changing-eye-color glasses, for the person who wishes to appear to have a new eye color
- Silent-communication glasses, for the person who is too shy to speak words but would not mind having the glasses display printed words and thoughts
- Hiding-eye-wrinkles-glasses, for the person who wishes to hide eye wrinkles
- Conference-glasses, for the person who is tired, and wishes to sleep unnoticed during a meeting
Here are some technical drawings from the patent document:
Here is the inventor modeling his Silent-communication glasses:
And here is the inventor, modeling his Night-walking glasses:
VIDEO: Dr. Nakamats sent us action video of him modeling the various forms of the invention. You can watch it on the Improbable Research Facebook page:
Ps. Dr. Nakamats informs us that he is “still not dead”. [For background on that see the report called “Dr. Nakamats, Continued!“]