1“This past Christmas, Sony has brought to life one of a device straight out of the futuristic Jetsons cartoon: a big-screen TV the size of a pair of glasses. The Sony Glasstron Personal LCD Monitor (PLM-A35) is a pint-sized device that claims to be able to display a 52o″ color TV screen, as it would be seen at a distance of six feet. This portable little wonder fits like a pair of glasses, and provides impressive video and sound quality. On the inside of the glasses, are two concave mirrors that reflect the tiny LCD picture to each eye and using the wonders of binocular vision, combines the two pictures into a single visual image. Looking into the device gives the feeling of being in a movie theater.p”
Back to our announcement, Sony introduced a prototype of glasses that might show up on shelves of Sunglass Hut Sonystyle stores in 3-5 years. Yea, we gotta wait again for something so cool to come to fruition. I was lucky enough to chit chat with the member of the Japanese team working on these glasses at CES. As you may have seen in our videos we featured earlier, Sony glasses are very stylish and are capable of projecting hopefully some Hi Def onto your retina in the near future. They definitely fit well on Tom Hanks and Sir Howard Stringer looked like a knight in a shining Armour (simply magic transformationd….ahhh we kid)
Here is a remastered and re-uploaded video of Tom Hanks appearing at Sony’s 2009 CES Keynote with Sir Howard Stringer. Sony had the idea to show off new glasses that are currently under development in their labs r– they have widescreen 16:9 (presumably HD) quality projected onto the lens. Stringer and Hanks try them on and hilarity ensues. If you watch while Hanks has them on you can see that for a moment after the jokes he is blown away by the glasses. It’s very obvious. Sony will probably have something like this in the market within the next five years, hopefully. They may want to continue working on the frame design, however..
