4/4/2006: Housefly with glasses

Undertoad · 04-04-2006, 11:03 AM

Couldn't stop chuckling when this one came around. National Geographic reports that

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An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.

Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH created the fly's eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining.

Clearly they didn't understand the problem. These glasses have only two lenses... they should have 8000.

barefoot serpent · 04-04-2006, 12:44 PM

Is it just the frames or are there actual lenses in them too? I can't tell from the pic -- but there appears to be no distortion from refraction.

ferret88 · 04-04-2006, 12:48 PM

Is that a Gargoyles(tm) logo on those shades?

So, um, anyone wanna weigh in on the usefulness of this ability to make micro shades?

CaptainWingSauce · 04-04-2006, 01:41 PM

Just like the fly itself, the glasses also poop on everything they land on.

Pancake Man · 04-04-2006, 06:32 PM

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Is it just the frames or are there actual lenses in them too?

Acutally, they are just Drew Carey glasses.

Welcome to the Cellar, WingSauce!

xoxoxoBruce · 04-04-2006, 07:17 PM

Wonder what they're made of?
CaptainWingSauce, care to explain that?

Kagen4o4 · 04-05-2006, 01:32 AM

flies only land to shit. (or so the legend goes)

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Originally Posted by UT

These glasses have only two lenses... they should have 8000.

i bet all the flies tease him and call him 8002 eyes.

Undertoad · 04-05-2006, 08:30 AM

Reminds me of an old joke which I think is cookied. Guy goes into a pet store and says "I'd like a fly, please." Shopkeeper: "A fly? We don't sell flies here!" "Oh but you've got one in the window!"

capnhowdy · 04-05-2006, 07:29 PM

This could be the 'fly on the wall' We've all heard about. Highly covert. Those are actually spy glasses.

How do I know? If I told you I'd have to.........

Elspode · 04-07-2006, 02:03 PM

Yo, baby...dem glasses be lookin' really fly, man! Sheeit!

Lizsun · 04-10-2006, 05:06 PM

I think he's really quite a cute one. Bet he does well on his college entrance exams. Maybe then he'll get a job and support me. "Don't swat me. Don't swat me! I'm not a fly! I'm Jeff Goldblum!"

Liz
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com

Sun_Sparkz · 04-11-2006, 04:02 AM

rant/

this is just cruel. they would have had to restrain the frightened (if not drugged) fly to put the glasses on him.. and on top of that the glasses are resting ON his eye bits.. you and i know how much it hurts to have even an eyelash in your eye.. imagine having your sunnies resting on your pupils.

Doesnt the earth have more important issues to be wasting our resources on!

urgh!!!

/end rant

Kagen4o4 · 04-11-2006, 06:44 AM

humans are at a stage where there is literally nothing better to do, than to put glasses on a fly.
and with all due respect for nature,
fuck the fly.

mlandman · 04-11-2006, 09:41 AM

What a F'n waste of research and money.

I truly truly hope that this company receives no grants from the government, which of course really come from the taxpayers.

Kind of like the dumbass 'marvin the martian' gate design that was made on one of the ASICs on the mars rover. And the real 'wake up songs' transmitted across space to be played by the rover when it switches into daytime mode.

FREAKIN GAY.

Cyclefrance · 04-11-2006, 10:56 AM

Might as well add the old chestnut to the fly jokes section that is building here:

What's the last thing to go through a fly's head when it hits the car windscreen?

Its arse!

(at least with the glasses - it should see that one coming in future)

04-04-2006, 07:17 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wonder what they're made of? CaptainWingSauce, care to explain that? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-05-2006, 07:29 PM	#9
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	This could be the 'fly on the wall' We've all heard about. Highly covert. Those are actually spy glasses. How do I know? If I told you I'd have to......... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

04-07-2006, 02:03 PM	#10
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Yo, baby...dem glasses be lookin' really fly, man! Sheeit! __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

04-10-2006, 05:06 PM	#11
Lizsun Complex Simpleton Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 18	fly with me I think he's really quite a cute one. Bet he does well on his college entrance exams. Maybe then he'll get a job and support me. "Don't swat me. Don't swat me! I'm not a fly! I'm Jeff Goldblum!" Liz http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com

04-11-2006, 04:02 AM	#12
Sun_Sparkz Has Body Temperature Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I come from a land downunder Posts: 1,105	rant/ this is just cruel. they would have had to restrain the frightened (if not drugged) fly to put the glasses on him.. and on top of that the glasses are resting ON his eye bits.. you and i know how much it hurts to have even an eyelash in your eye.. imagine having your sunnies resting on your pupils. Doesnt the earth have more important issues to be wasting our resources on! urgh!!! /end rant __________________ We'll never be as young as we are right now

04-04-2006, 12:44 PM	#2
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Is it just the frames or are there actual lenses in them too? I can't tell from the pic -- but there appears to be no distortion from refraction.

04-04-2006, 12:48 PM	#3
ferret88 (This space left intentionally UN-blank.) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 604	Is that a Gargoyles(tm) logo on those shades? So, um, anyone wanna weigh in on the usefulness of this ability to make micro shades?

04-04-2006, 01:41 PM	#4
CaptainWingSauce Recruit or Something Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4	Just like the fly itself, the glasses also poop on everything they land on.

04-05-2006, 08:30 AM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Reminds me of an old joke which I think is cookied. Guy goes into a pet store and says "I'd like a fly, please." Shopkeeper: "A fly? We don't sell flies here!" "Oh but you've got one in the window!"

04-11-2006, 06:44 AM	#13
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	humans are at a stage where there is literally nothing better to do, than to put glasses on a fly. and with all due respect for nature, fuck the fly. __________________ something we both can enjoy??

04-11-2006, 09:41 AM	#14
mlandman Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 87	couldn't agree more What a F'n waste of research and money. I truly truly hope that this company receives no grants from the government, which of course really come from the taxpayers. Kind of like the dumbass 'marvin the martian' gate design that was made on one of the ASICs on the mars rover. And the real 'wake up songs' transmitted across space to be played by the rover when it switches into daytime mode. FREAKIN GAY.

04-11-2006, 10:56 AM	#15
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Might as well add the old chestnut to the fly jokes section that is building here: What's the last thing to go through a fly's head when it hits the car windscreen? Its arse! (at least with the glasses - it should see that one coming in future) __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

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