The future's bright

April 2, 2006 12:08 PM

D00d, nice shades! Also found here and presumably elsewhere.
posted by lalochezia (19 comments total)

Yes I know it's a few days old, but I haven't seen it on MeFi. Really, if you had those shades, you could read this stuff Bzz bzz what, you say? Yeah, two tables over, that guy has some great fries. I just ate some. Oh you can't see that far? You should get some of these specs, man. I can pick out how that guys burger's been cooked - I like 'em rare.
posted by lalochezia at 12:08 PM on April 2, 2006

And at that size, you could exploit the properties of light bending around surfaces to actually make them proper and functional spectacles.

(Well, except for the part where you have to try to make them work with the fly's integrated mega-optics.)
posted by SteelyDuran at 12:12 PM on April 2, 2006

that is one hell of an ad for your 'make really tiny shit' company.
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 1:11 PM on April 2, 2006

I wonder if those are compound lenses.
posted by crunchland at 1:12 PM on April 2, 2006

posted by fire&wings at 1:31 PM on April 2, 2006

"Is that fresh poop over there? Let me borrow your glasses."
posted by brain_drain at 1:48 PM on April 2, 2006

They've done the impossible by making flies cooler.
posted by ColdChef at 2:31 PM on April 2, 2006

"Oh my God! Look what we've been eating!"
posted by uosuaq at 3:01 PM on April 2, 2006

Flies on a plane.

someone had to.
posted by ninjew at 3:24 PM on April 2, 2006

NerdFly
posted by exlotuseater at 3:29 PM on April 2, 2006

Flies on a plane.

something nobody (else) should ever have to experience *shudders*
posted by knapah at 3:31 PM on April 2, 2006

Possibly inspired by Bono's Fly persona.
posted by Devils Slide at 4:08 PM on April 2, 2006

Mentioned in April Fool's thread yesterday.
posted by Ynoxas at 7:05 PM on April 2, 2006

Thoses glasses are pretty...fly.
posted by hooray at 8:43 PM on April 2, 2006

I was expecting Jeff Goldblum.
posted by drezdn at 8:59 PM on April 2, 2006

All the better to keep an eye on you...

posted by cenoxo at 9:38 PM on April 2, 2006

ahem... SHENANIGANS!!! I CALL SHENANIGANS!!!
posted by Parannoyed at 10:37 PM on April 2, 2006

"ahem... SHENANIGANS!!! I CALL SHENANIGANS!!!"

It's real. Check this Google Scholar result.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:45 AM on April 3, 2006

Yeah, very cute. By the way that fly is dead.
posted by plexiwatt at 9:18 AM on April 3, 2006