Sunglasses and Headset
The amount of different devices that combine things that at a glance seem to be unable o group is growing daily. Some hybrids are so exotic, that they become too singled out once they hit retail sale and fail to gain any impressive results, meanwhile others are to the contrary: popular and get developed in future. The handset that we are going to review in this article belongs to second type of exotic devices. A headset combined with sunglasses from Oakley. This company became one of the first that started releasing “wearable electronics”, by maximally simplifying this kind of products, so instead of looking futuristic, it became utilitarian. A model of sunglasses with built-in mp3 player was kind of expected, but only Oakley was able to make it a true class. The brand became very popular, and after it gained recognition for making advanced lenses, rims and glasses. Addition of electronic component did its task: the novelties became extremely popular, and the current newborn market today lacks competitors.
Model RAZRWire is the first one among Bluetooth-headset series, as you can see from the title, the marketologists were trying to replicate success of RAZR. It turned out that we had this model back in the 2nd quarter of 2005, but lack of sun it was hard to see what it truly is about. I can easily see a man walking in sunglasses with blizzard blowing into his face and darkness covering the surroundings. Once we waited till spring sun, we were able to test this product, but I would like to point out, that I wanted to tryout the glasses myself, though I was unable to do that due to problems with eyesight (contact lenses would be required). On the other side, adjusting to contact lenses after unsuccessful experience I had before wasn’t what I wanted to do. The solution for this problem was rather easy and elegant: sunglass construction allows replacing lenses, so I did (sun glass was replaced with sun glass with dioptre), even though this operation looked rather blasphemy. Original lenses include a lot of different technologies, they provide really good visibility and don’t flare (tested on those who do not have problems with their eyesight). Lenses in this model are sort of limousine on the market, once you get used to them you will not be able to wear other sun glasses. Those who want to read more about the technologies used in these sun glasses should visit manufacturer’s web-site (
www.oakley.com), there’s a lot of information to read.