I’m sure many of you have seen this image floating around online at some point.

It seems a rather neat idea, though I’d be worried about any sort of accident, or even potential fight, ripping that piercing right out.

But, what if the lenses attached with magnets instead?..

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    I think this would be painful over time and probably make that skin saggy, as it stretches it out over time.

    I have a magnet implant in my hand and it’s uncomfortable to have something as small as a screw hanging on it.

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      I have a magnet implant in my hand and it’s uncomfortable to have something as small as a screw hanging on it.

      Be careful with hanging stuff from your magnet implant: the pressure on your skin isn’t necessarily great but it’s constant and unrelenting, and you could cause necrosis of your skin the magnet pinches in as little as one hour. That’s mostly the reason why I never pursued magnet implants to attach things to my body (and also because I want to retain the ability to get an MRI done)

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      Not suggesting the magnets be implanted, just mounted onto the ends of the nose bridge piercing, easy enough to remove…

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    3 months ago

    I was wondering why there’s nose pads; but looking closer I think there’s a pin sticking out of each lense that gets inserted into the implanted nose bridge making a hinge of sorts. (instead of a screw) The lenses are held firmly in two axis; but can rotate up/down to rest on the nose pads, while being removable.

    I’d be worried about bumping/catching them on anything and ripping that piercing/implant out too, but I don’t think magnets would be strong enough to stop them moving around with any sort of g-forces.

    As someone who sleeps face down quite a bit, I’d never try this. It would definitely drive me nuts just trying sleep with that bridge in, plus it would get snagged on bedding/clothes/towels/etc.

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      Oh no, to me this is only a hypothetical idea. I’d never sleep with such a piercing thingy either.

      But you do get the almost neat idea of daily wear right?

      Hell I dunno…

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    All the reasons listed here aside, for this eyeglass apparatus pierced through the bridge of the nose.

    Tell me that you can romantically kiss your significant other with this trailer hitch looking apparatus between their eyes.

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      Not looking for romance, just looking for vision that won’t break.

      If the lenses attach magnetically, what’s the worst that can happen, they snap loose?

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          Sorry, still can’t reach my dick.

          Jokes aside, those glasses look awesome, except like don’t screw them in place, use magnets instead…

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    Looks cool but feels like it would be a little… flimsy? Wouldn’t the lenses being attached like that exert quite a significant amount of leverage on a single fixed point? Feels like they would bob as you move wouldn’t they?

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      I thought about that a bit later on myself. Like, if you just look down, wouldn’t gravity just do its thing and pull the glasses away from your face?

      But that also made me think, where the nose pads are, you could also have piercings on the sides of the nose and matching pins in the nose pads to much better hold them in place.

      I dunno, seems a nifty novelty idea for people into piercings (not for me though), but also seems it could have been designed a bit better than that too.

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        I just can’t see it having enough structural integrity unless you graft the piercings onto your nasal bone.

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          Make the magnetic surfaces flat, so they prefer to rest at an exact angle. Neodymium magnets are pretty strong ya know.

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            But the skin is not rigid, and piercings are ultimately just attached to your skin are they not?

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              Typical glasses aren’t exactly rigid either, and I wouldn’t even want them to be super rigid anyways. Hey, at least the piercing mount wouldn’t be able to slide down your nose.

              And if something happens, like you bump into something, or get punched or whatever, at least the lens(es) should easily pop off, rather than ripping the piercing out.

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    And not really practical, tbh. Anytime you move your eyebrows or change your expression, the lenses would move, changing the focus of your vision.

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      That’s no different from me with spring loaded earpieces. If anything, that would keep the glasses more fixed, considering the nose pieces holding it steady.

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        Oh it absolutely would be worse. You have only one mount point per lens vs two in regular glasses. Plus you don’t get the lateral stability of the full frame. If the nose piece actually bolted on to bone, it would be a different story. Pierced through flesh, it will have elasticity.

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          I’d prefer that honestly, at least I can easily twist the lenses to best match my vision.

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    Ok, off-topic, kinda, but I just remembered that I saw a Google Glass on the wild. I don’t if it was THE Google Glass, but I found very neat. It was a guy that seemed to be paralyzed from the neck down. His chair was controlled by small movement he made with his head. There was a thing that looked like a straw going near his mouth and a smartphone attached to the chair. I wanted to ask what he was seeing through the Glass, but I didn’t.