Nike concept sunglasses give you the benefit of hindsight

nike-hindsight.jpg

Here’s some nifty concept sunglasses from Nike which curve your field of vision, so you can actually (sort-of) see behind you! Normal field of view is 180°, but this extends that 25° on each side, giving you an effective 230° vision range. Useful for seeing that taxi that’s about to knock you over. Nike say:

“To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process.”

Still, it remains just a concept. Sorry, but you won’t be getting your hands on these just yet.

Nike (via CrunchGear)

Related posts: Man selling Microsoft sunglasses for $173,000 | DIY Terminator sunglasses

Apple announces new iPod family: thinner, more storage, more colours, more "funner"

Steve Jobs has just announced an overhaul of the iPod range, with new iPod nanos, iPod classics, and iPod touches.

Here’s a quick overview of the new designs.

iPod nano

ipod_nano_line.jpg
ipod_nano_angled.png

Available in nine colours (including a (PRODUCT) RED charity version), and either 8GB or 16GB storage capacity, the new design features curved aluminium and glass, and a built in accelerometer which allows you to flip viewing orientation, and even shake the device to shuffle music tracks.

It measures 3.6 x 1.5 x 0.24 inches, has a two-inch diagonal colour LCD with LED backlight (320 x 240 resolution), and offers up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video playback on a single charge.

8GB £109 16GB £149…

Get a brainwave using the FeelFree headset

nike-feelfree-headset.jpg

Binaural Beats are weird. Discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a German physicist and meteorologist, they’re auditory processing artifacts created when you play sounds of slightly different frequencies to each ear. A beating tone is percieved, as if the tones mixed outside the brain. The weird bit, however, is that they appear to entrain brainwaves, producing relaxation and health benfits. Enter the FeelFree headset…

Transformer shoe extravaganza: robots in disguise – and on your feet

transformer-shoes.jpg

Rather like a Kinder Egg but a shoe, a robot and a surprise (no chocolate), are these most wonderfully ridiculous Transformer trainers. Quite when the design guy thought “You know what, I wish I could turn my shoes into robots,” is utterly beyond me but my nostalgia hormones refuse to let me say that having a life form from Cybertron protecting your feet is a bad idea…

Stay on the bleeding edge of fashion with Nike and KDDi Communications' blood-red shoes

nike-shoes-2.jpgA product is never just a single product these days, with convergence being more popular than this year than touch-screens, believe it or not. Just look at how many applications and features the most popular touch-screen product of all time is…

Nike is making leaps and bounds in the tech-convergence field, with their Nike + iPod shoes, and now their collaboration with Japan’s…