Magnetic reading glasses - What problem does this solve?

[Carson Dyle]

I was watching a movie last night and saw someone with a similar pair of reading glasses. I'd never seen this before. Note that the glasses also have a strap connecting the two halves, so they're worn around the neck.

Why? Why not unbroken glasses with a band or a chain, like Grandma used to have?

 

[Red Squirrel]

This will require the remaking of many "deal with it" gifs.

 

[IronWing]

You don't have to lift them over your head, they can just hang on your neck when not in use.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You don't have to lift them over your head, they can just hang on your neck when not in use.

If you wear glasses on a strap around your neck, you only have to put them on over your head once, not when placing them onto or removing them from your nose.

 

[Mayne]

less wear & tear on the actual solid glasses frame and arms? I have no idea to be honest.

 

[IronWing]

If you wear glasses on a strap around your neck, you only have to put them on over your head once, not when placing on or removing them from your nose.

<shrug> I worked with a guy who had a pair. It was only thing I could figure.

 

[lxskllr]

Looks like one of those dumb inventions that only exists because it never existed before, and someone thinks it can make them some money.

 

[IronWing]

I figured it out! When the punk ass little screw falls out, you can use the magnet to find it.

 

[PottedMeat]

Looks like one of those dumb inventions that only exists because it never existed before, and someone thinks it can make them some money.

this seems like it probably had a practical application in some very specific occupation and someone thought it work everywhere

 

[Charmonium]

You don't have to lift them over your head, they can just hang on your neck when not in use.

I think that's the main thing. If you're a woman with carefully coiffed do, these are probably easier to deal with in terms of putting on and taking off. However you have to unhook and re-hook them every time you want to let them down to rest on your chest because on the model I have, the strap is too short to just take them off w/o unhooking.

The other theoretical benefit I guess is that they're not a choking hazard. If by some bizarre twist of fate your glasses get caught in some machinery or something, they'll come apart and not pull you in. Regular glasses with a strap might not even though they're just held together with those little rubber o-rings on the temple bars.

 

[eplebnista]

The Medical Examiner(Sid) on CSI:NY had a pair of those.

 

[Stopsignhank]

The contractor that we use has those and it is so cool to watch him put them on and take them off.

 

[OutHouse]

jefff Fisher had those on Hard Knox. seemed annoying.

one hand or two to put on glasses? ill take 1.

 

[Billb2]

When you wear those you don't have to wear your tinfoil hat.

 

[boomerang]

Because the band that goes around the back of your head is integrated into the frames, there is less chance of losing the glasses. Less concern on a job site of a strap that is held onto the temple pieces with friction coming off or catching and breaking with the strap going in one direction and the glasses another. And no, it's not a foolproof solution.

 

[who?]

You can pass them around the back of your neck instead of putting them over your head but I'm not sure how often that would be more convenient.

 

[Homerboy]

I see them a lot on construction sites and/or workshops -- seems to be popular in the skilled trades.
Mike Wolf on American Pickers wears them too. My wife saw them and asked "Magnetic reading glasses - What problem does this solve?" too.
I had no answer.

 

[Cuular]

This also protects your glasses from bending the frames when you step on them after the cat drags them off the bedside table at night.

 

[Charmonium]

This also protects your glasses from bending the frames when you step on them after the cat drags them off the bedside table at night.

Why don't you buy your cat it's own pair? Then it wouldn't have to borrow yours. How do you expect it to keep up with the news and its facespace friends if it has to keep borrowing your glasses? Bad human.

 

[shortylickens]

I just discovered something new:

http://www.zennioptical.com/eyeglass-magnetic-snapon-sunshades-6499321.html

I might get these for the car.