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"I was driving a dynamite truck when I was 14 years old in North Carolina."
- Harlan Ellison

External Eyelenses  
  Way retro means of correcting vision problems in human beings.  

One of the oldest (and best) tricks of science fiction writers is to use a deliberately technical description of an everyday object.

Nyman was at his desk, ostensibly working at a gray-and-green-colored holodisplay. He was a thin, serious-looking man who affected steel-rimmed external eyelenses to go with this expensively cut black suit...
Technovelgy from Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan.
Published by Del Rey in 2003
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Another good example of how this is used to great effect in a story is the groundcar from Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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