These 'smart' glasses don't boast a smart assistant, but they can turn into sunglasses in an instant

From Project Orion to Snapchat Spectacles and X-Real Glasses pinch Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, which are apt stealing nan show pinch nan astir adoption, there’s nary shortage of contenders for nan best smart glasses successful 2024.

Rather than tossing a microphone aliases group of speakers into glasses, Chamelo is taking a much basal attack to return nan hassle retired of swapping glasses for sunglasses. Its caller eyewear model, Prime, tin automatically modulation from glasses to sunglasses acknowledgment to a ray sensor built into nan bridge.

This portion of tech, paired pinch nan aptly named 'Autopilot' characteristic – not to beryllium confused pinch Tesla’s self-driving mode – will automatically set nan tint of nan lenses based connected nan conditions you’re in. For instance, if you’re stepping extracurricular connected a sunny autumn day, nan lenses mightiness set to a higher tint to protect your eyes.

Pretty useful – and Chamelo promises that tint accommodation takes conscionable 0.1 seconds. The proprietary Eclipse Tint-Adjustable lenses tin beryllium adjusted betwixt 4 tint levels, from 9% to 45%. The lenses themselves connection 100% UV protection and travel successful 2 finishes: smoke, which looks for illustration classical achromatic shades, and Fire, which has an orangish mirrored finish.

If you require medicine lenses, though, you’re retired of luck for nan moment. Chamelo doesn’t yet connection medicine lenses, and you can’t switch nan lenses for off-the-shelf ones. However, nan marque does scheme to connection these further lens types astatine immoderate point.

The achromatic framework is made of thermoplastic, specifically TR90, and weighs 30 grams, and nan glasses connection protection against sweat aliases h2o up to nan IPX4 standard. If you’d alternatively set nan level of tint connected your own, you tin override nan ‘Autopilot’ characteristic and manually swipe connected nan arm to alteration nan tint crossed nan 4 levels.

Chamelo’s Prime glasses – and sunglasses – are group to vessel from December priced astatine $249 / £249 / AU$399. An world motorboat is planned, but nan UK and Australia pricing isn’t yet available. If you’re successful nan United States and are already sold, you tin fastener successful an bid now astatine $199 aft an instant $50 discount.

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