My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back

Re: Fat-Burning Hats

Shouldn't be too hard- you burn a lot of energy regulating your temperature, and the head is one of the places that looses most heat, so shave the head, mount a refrigeration unit in the hat, and Bingo, weight loss.

Also, a big heavy hat will mean you burn more energy carrying it around and strengthen core muscles trying to stay upright with a fridge on the head.

The deluxe model can have a couple of slots to insert beers, for relaxing after a heavy hat wearing session.

You could even recover some energy with a peliter effect layer between the scalp and the refrigeration unit, and potentially combine it with one of those neoprene belts, redirecting the extracted heat into the belly where it can raise the core temperature, requiring more heat loss through the head.

Perpetual motion, until you run out of fat. Or collapse under the weight. Whichever.

Re: Wear-a-Hypno-bubble

You are aware that those sleep cans detect when you are asleep and most suggestible, they play quiet suggestions to you such as

'you may like these products based on your purchase history - Sleep Cans .....'

Re: sunnies after dark ?

For me, in a rural area, it's not so much oncoming cars / suvs which are the problem, it's the oncoming nitwit cyclists using strobing white front lamps after dark which just remove all possibility of seeing anything other than their light, and a glowing after image where my retinas have begun to char.

Re: sunnies after dark ?

sunnies after dark becoming regrettably necessary now every ponce in a Toorak Tractor/Chelsea Combine has 5KW xenon plasma night light arc welder for head lights setting fire to trees 500 yards away.

OK, so you're advocating that you ought to screw up your night vision for the entire journey in case some idiot with misaligned lights comes your way? Having a pair of light sunglasses handy may be a better plan.

About the only vision-augmenting tool you should wear at night is clear glasses with anti-reflection coating, and make sure you keep them clean (I find ordinary soap and water + drying cloth to work better and safer than the tissue things they sell). If you already need glasses anyway, AR coating is good to have anyway for a whole lot of reasons.

The yellow tint thing does work, by the way, but only by daylight. Yellow tint + polarisation is, for instance, very effective at giving you more visibility in rain (especially if you're in the habit of keeping the inside of your windshield clean). Add to that a good quality rain repellent nano-coating of the windshield and you'll have to remind yourself at occasions that (a) others don't quite see so well at that time and (b) that being able to see well doesn't mean the physics of limited wet road adhesion have changed too..

Re: sunnies after dark ?

Plus a thousand. While headlights are a great solution for the answer of "seeing where you're going while driving at night", it seems that a depressing number of people do not understand that aiming them directly into the eyes of oncoming traffic may prove less safe than driving with them off.

Short of wearing sunglasses at night, I've not come up with a solution for this. Well, not a socially acceptable one that doesn't involve taking a crowbar to the headlights of other people's cars, or in extreme cases to the drivers.

I did find that window tint is helpful on one's rearview (side or wing) mirrors. Just remember to go about half as dark as you'd think necessary, being a mirror the light goes through the film twice, of course.

Re: sunnies after dark ?

I wish I could upvote you more than once..

Re: sunnies after dark ?

You just gave me a flashback to my mid-teen years.

Re: sunnies after dark ?

I'm in favour of covering the front and rear windows surrounds with corner-cube reflectors so that the offenders get a little of their own back.

Re: Sunglasses After Dark

I like it :).

I reckon people that wear sunglasses after dark must be easy to identify, by the bruising..

Re: Sunglasses After Dark

Somewhat related: I remember seeing a documentary about Roy Orbison a few years ago, in which he admitted that the reason he always wore sunglasses on stage was that in 1964(?) when supporting the Beatles on a tour in the UK, he realised he'd left his regular glasses on the plane, and the only prescription glasses he had were the tinted ones.

Judging by the talking heads they interviewed for the documentary, it seems I wasn't the only one who'd always assumed he had weak eyes or some similar affliction!

Re: Sunglasses After Dark

It does work when you are 106 miles from Chicago.

Re: Besides, wearables are harmless, right?

As long as everything is made perfectly safe...

Re: Yellow sunglasses after dark

>>>With yellow sunglasses I see better and don't get the stabbing pain in my eyeballs.<<<

Particularly when driving a convertible through a bug-swarm.

Re: Yellow 'sunglasses'

Eh? I must see if I can get a clip-on for my glasses - old age and night driving doesn't mix at all.