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Monday, October 18, 2004 11:12 AM PT Posted by Tom Spring
Walk and Watch DVDs
Video junkies who lament having to rip themselves away from their TV to do inconvenient things like walk now have reason to celebrate. Eyetop has introduced a wearable DVD system called Eyetop DVD Pack. It allows you to watch DVDs through a tiny LCD monitor placed on heavy duty glasses, which feature a small, built-in pair of ear-bud headphones. The video display is placed on upper right hand side of the glasses giving you the ability to viewing the immediate surroundings while watching a DVD.
Priced at $600, Eyetop DVD Pack comes with a portable Shinco brand DVD player, a cigarette-pack-sized controller unit, and a durable nylon shoulder bag for mobile use. I tried the system out briefly here at the recent Digital Life trade show. Video quality was okay, though I strained my eyes when my left eye kept trying to view the tiny LCD display on my right side.
More concerning is the big picture: I shutter at prospect of sharing the road with DVD-watching drivers. Cell-phone-wielding automobile drivers seem downright safe in comparison.
You can buy the glasses without the DVD player and nylon bag for $500.
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these are cool
these are not cool you damn tool
these are a terrible idea.
These are so ghetto it makes me want to own them just to make other people mad.
I'd like these installed into the face plate of my motorcycle helmet, so that I could get instruments readings and stuff...but for entertainment purposes...no.
Brilliant ! Can you buy the glasses without buying the whole DVD pack ?
GEHY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY GAAAAAAYYYYYYY
this is the stupidest of the whole entire stupid world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like a proper eye display, but not to watch DVD movies.
its like "the jerk". You'll go cross eyed.
Vertigo will be yours
i want detel this and priz & infomertion
I have one It is only abou a fourth as good as the review would have you believe. I am bed-bound. so walking is not a problem.
It is excruciating to watch and the resolution is awful
My dentist has these. I don't need as much numbing, because my attention is elsewhere.
who the hell would wanna get these?
At the very least, they could have put TWO displays on both eyes... the point of watching DVD is NOT to be aware of the immediate surroundings... Maybe someone should invent a home theatre system for wet markets!
And why would you want to watch a DVD at 320x240 pixels? You could do better with the old VCD!
Some times stupid people get all the funding to create all these stupid stuff... makes you wonder at the intelligence level of the rich investors though.
Maybe I'm the one who didn't get it... the 'stupider' you are, the richer you get.. which must explain their target market too.. rich people who are stupid enough to buy these and watch DVDs while they drive...
Boy.. it's times like these you kinda regret working so hard at being intelligent.
I remember a Mad Magazine spoof about 25 years ago called 'New products we'd like to see". Well, one of them was the "Sony Gawkman" TV sunglasses. "Focus close, see Fred Sanford, Focus far, see car coming at you". LOL Someone was obviously impressed with the idea.