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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses | ||
| Sunglasses that darken at the sight of danger. |
| He... put on the sunglasses, annoyed to discover that the metal object had scratched one of the lenses. Nevertheless, he felt much more comfortable with them on. They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude toward danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you. |
| From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
by Douglas Adams. Published by Harmony Books in 1979 Additional resources -
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Compare to the also-handy GPS sunglasses from William Gibson's 1999 novel All Tomorrow's Parties. Thanks to an alert reader who anonymously pointed this out.
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