RGB Glasses: fluid-filled, color-changing specs

Portuguese designer Luis Porem created these neat, dye-filled RGB Glasses. Don't like the color? Simply pull out their drainage plug and filled it with another color. Of course, only Pescovitz could get away with wearing frames like this. Still, I look forward to seeing what a body modder can do with these: I imagine a set of RGB Glasses directly hooked into the circulatory system.

RGB Glasses [Design Spotter]

[#1 posted by noen , October 22, 2008 11:05 AM]

It might be interesting to fill it with other fluids. Fluids that glow in the dark or that glow or change color under different conditions. Or how about an oil water mixture?

[#2 posted by Anonymous , October 22, 2008 11:11 AM]

My immediate thought is that a great accessory would be a box with valves and little tanks of various colored liquids, connected with tubing to the two sides of the glases, so that color changes flow through them constantly.

[#3 posted by RedShirt77 , October 22, 2008 11:34 AM]

Two Words: Sea Monkeys.

[#4 posted by James , October 22, 2008 12:05 PM]

I imagine a car full of horrified subway passengers as the drainage plug falls out and someone starts 'bleeding' bright red fluid from their ears.

[#5 posted by Scuba SM , October 22, 2008 12:13 PM]

James,

Even better if the wearer is sleeping...

[#6 posted by retchdog , October 22, 2008 12:52 PM]

@2: Now if only that could be worked into a full face-mask, I could finally pursue my dream of meting out vigilante justice on the scum of the city.

[#7 posted by w000t , October 22, 2008 2:42 PM]

Would it be possible to fill these with a Briggs-Rauscher Reaction?

[#8 posted by Secret_Life_of_Plants , October 22, 2008 4:06 PM]

Oh! This is like the car I always wanted!

[#9 posted by snej , October 22, 2008 5:40 PM]

They should really be called "RYB Glasses" — dyes work by subtractive color, not additive like light, so the primary colors are Red, _Yellow_ and Blue (just like we learned in grade school.)

I'd love to see someone try to wear these onto an airplane! They definitely hold less than 6oz, but I'll bet the TSA operatives would freak out and confiscate them anyway.

[#10 posted by Ghede , October 22, 2008 7:58 PM]

This would go great combined with those adjustable water lens glasses they are shipping to africa. Stylish, and already has the ability to store liquid, just needs new lenses and possible a slightly rounder design.

[#11 posted by morcheeba , October 22, 2008 11:42 PM]

SNEJ - good catch! But (as you probably know), the colors are more accurately called Cyan, Magenta and Yellow -- it took a long time for me to unlearn that elementary school model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model

[#12 posted by airship , October 23, 2008 7:18 AM]

One word: whiskey.

[#13 posted by atteSmythe , October 23, 2008 9:24 AM]

Do they hold less than three ounces?

[#14 posted by Halloween Jack , October 23, 2008 10:31 AM]

Why, oh why didn't they have these in the 80s?

[#15 posted by Kurt McAllister , October 23, 2008 5:43 PM]

This is only a concept, isn't it? I would love to have a pair of these.

[#16 posted by w000t , October 24, 2008 1:25 PM]

morcheeba & snej:

Your posts and especially the mention of unlearning the elementary school model made me think of one of the best books I've read on practical color theory:
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green [Google Books Link].