Vision Flipping Glasses

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Published on August 29, 2009
This thing was Featured on August 29, 2009

Description

You've probably heard the story about the artist who wore mirrored goggles flipping his vision upside down for a few days. After a while his brain also flipped correcting his perspective. When he finally took off the glasses at the end of the experiment he found that his own native vision was upside down. Cool eh?

Here's a chance to try. The mechanism of these is articulated by looking down into the mirrored panel. You see there a flipped version of the world. Unfortunately your cone of vision is pretty limited. It's intended to be laser cut on .11 mirrored acrylic (mirrored side down, please)which is often labeled as 1/8". You'll also need 4-40 shcs and nuts. Washers completely optional... I can't remember why I included them in the design.

Instructions

Just cut the acrylic laser style (mirrored side down) and assemble until it looks like the pictures. Couldn't be too much simpler.
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hi,
the attached .DXF is not the glasses that are shown on the picture.
the glasses you get from the .DXF have no traversing effect at all.
but you get instant crotch-vision since all you will see is your pants (if you wear them)
thats not bad either but not at all what i expected :)

Woah. Mucho Correcto. Wrong DXF. I'm so sorry. I accidentally attached the first version instead of the last version.

Wow, great! Very fashionable in a not fashionable way!

Thanks! They were fun to design. It was done in a few hours right before a mindhacking party. I'm eager to have people play with the design to see if there's a better way to arrange the whole thing.

I should mail a pair to Kanye.