How-To: Embroidered Glasses Case
Keep specs and sunglasses scratch-free and within easy reach with this charming embroidered glasses case tutorial!
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How-To: Nerdy Cookie Glasses
Take a good look at these spectacular nerdy cookie glasses with hard candy lenses from Rosanna Pansino.
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Make: Projects – Custom-Shaped Frameless Eyeglasses
Here is a process that would not have occurred to me. Make: Projects user Kiers knew enough about the machines used by eyeglass lens makers to know that they use a “dummy lens” template as a pattern to cut the outer profile of a lens. He found an accommodating online optician willing to use a […]
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How-To: Prescription Goggles
Longtime MAKE pal (and Volume 17 cover-guy) Jake von Slatt shows us an easy way to hack an old pair of eyeglass lenses into a set of goggles for use around the shop, or when driving through the desert in an art car with no name. Good to hear from you, Jake! Keep ’em coming!
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How much did you pay for your last pair of glasses?
Probably way too much,* by the standards of Oxford physics professor Josh Silver, who has developed a wearer-adjustable set of eyeglasses that use water-filled plastic bags as lenses. They’re so cheap that they can be distributed freely in underdeveloped and impoverished communities, which is exactly what Silver is doing, to the tune of 30,000 units […]
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