Perhaps taking a cue from Katie Williams’ “Inview Goggles,” German company Rodenstock has developed a prototype set of sunglasses that can display your running time and heart rate in your peripheral vision through a wireless data link.

“If wearable computing is going to be popular you need to provide some information, but not a lot,” [optics engineer Mike] Hazel says, “our goal was to produce something very light that could be styled into a normal spectacle.”

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