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Launch a web-based museum where the hard drives of
famous or significant dead people would be available
for posthumous inspection.
Chas Bayfield
18517April2001
Editor’s note:
If only there were a
Nobel Prize for
eccentricity. Steve
James’ obsession
with making the world
a better place through
the most complicated
of schemes
186demonstratesthe
Design a range of sunglasses called Respecs. The
eyewear would have one lens polarized horizontally and
the other vertically. Those viewing the world through
the glasses would not really notice a great deal of
difference to their outlook. It would however be
impossible to make direct eye contact with other
wearers of the same glasses, as the lens polarizations
most unique of would cross, effectively blocking the line of sight. This
talents.
event would act as an impromptu wink or secret
acknowledgment between devotees of the glasses.
Steve James
18 April 2001
