Switch glasses play Jekyll And Hyde

Juniper Foo | Dec 06, 2007

Unless you've gone for Lasik and have done with a life-time of spectacles, those of us who are myopic still have to live with the cost of changing glasses every so often. It gets worse over the years. Progressive lenses, along with prescription, multicoating, even Transitions, can empty your pocket of as much as S$700. That's not counting the frame yet which, depending on how fashionably branded you want to go, requires you to cough up to S$1,000. So we can certainly relate to the Switch concept by designer Hyo-Jong Kim who, surprise, surprise, appears to have an unadorned mug. Regardless, his idea adds pivots and hinges to the arms and lens of a pair of eyewear, where flipping them around lets you take advantage of two different frame colors. Too bad you can't do that with colored contact lenses. For now, Kim's design is a concept, and one we're rooting for someone to pick up soon.

Via Yanko Design

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