The function and fashion of eyeglasses | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series
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- Glasses were originally created to overcome physical obstacles, but design evangelist Debbie Millman shares how they turned into a fashion statement.
Small Thing Big Idea, a TED original series, celebrates the lasting genius of everyday objects so perfectly designed that they changed the world around them.
Debbie hosts the TED Audio Collective podcast Design Matters with Debbie Millman--one of the world’s very first podcasts about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives. Listen to Design Matters with Debbie Millman wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to the TED Audio Collective: / tedaudiocollective
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I love how every day items have a beginning,a reason to be,a language and a history.
Excellent and enjoyable quick review of the history of eyewear!
You know you're an Anime Protagonist
when you fix your Eye Glasses and it shines
Not even kidding when I first got them I instinctively used my middle finger to push them back up...
Who all are watching this with glasses
Not me. I have naked eyes 👁👁😊!
Canes can be fashionable! Coming from a girl whose used canes for three years of her life, my canes stood out! 😆
Canes were really fashionable among the European aristocracies. A cane was one of the staples of aristocrats, particularly the men.
I wish this video was way longer.
Me too! I love it, regardless.
My glasses broke, and this posted within the same hour.
I'd squint in suspicion *if I wasn't squinting to see this.*
Always makes me chuckle when you guys call them “eyeglasses” instead of just “glasses”
Glasses, eyeglasses same thing
I'd be disabled without glasses
who ever edited this went a bit overboard on the sound effects
Okay, TED. You set the pace.
Teach us about a new field every day.
I think prosthetics have reached that level. They are a huge fashion accessory for those with them who want to make them so.
My glasses wear me at all times.
Been wearing soft contact lenses for over 45 years. I got them as a teen. The best part of ditching glasses was that I had peripheral vision again. Woo hoo! No more "tunnel vision" through a pair of frames.
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One thing I still don’t get is why we need to pay our prescription lenses and don’t have our healthcare system (here in Germany but I’ve never heard from a country where this is the case) cover it. It seems to be illogical; as the video says we need them to drive, read, walk or live our day to day lives (I have quite the bad vision and I’d never leave the house without my glasses on); anyone got an idea why we still need to pay for our lenses (frames out of the equation, most of them are fashion and a 10€ frame would do to hold them in place, I get that)
And why shouldn't LASIK or the like covered. Your leg is broken - you fix it. Your eyes are broken - should be able to fix it.
Well, there's no such thing as free goods and services. The countries with universal health care pay for it with astronomical taxes (often about 60% of the average earners incomes), not having much of a military, and by imposing rationing.
thank you i learn a lot
I'm lucky and currently don't require glasses but have always wanted a pair like malcolm x
TED has a special talent for littering interesting and informative monologues with advertisement noises.
Too many sound effects. Great vid though
*☼ IVE NEVER HAD A PRESCRIPTION!* i have 7 pair. Youre right, ima get a wheelchair & colostomy! lets elevate all devices to fashion!
Elevated, yeah, the price too!
non glasses users, please put in 144p for better experience
I like this sherlock holmes edit looks like
What was the greatest lesson you took away from this video? COMMENT BELOW.
My take away was that humans will turn ANYTHING into a fashion statement.
Even eye glasses went through a lot of trial and error before maturing in design
@@arnoldshmitt4969 😏 Nice
I don't know if I'd say that "only" eyeglasses have become this. It's more common than with the other that I can think of off the top of my head, but there is another: the cane.
Yeah, monarchs used to carry scepters, which are glorified canes.
glasses for life.....
It's good 👍
Had my eyes lasered 4 years ago. Best decision I ever made.
Buying a wheelchair for fashion while you are not handicapped isn't elevation. It is devolution and an insult to those who need it.
I think that she was not connecting those ideas or suggesting that people without needs use assistive devices for fashion. She was pointing out that glasses are perceived as fashionable, wouldn’t it be nice if everything that people _need_ also be fashionable.
Remember when the handicapped railed against Jerry Lewis for referring to wheelchairs as imprisonment? They fired & sued him for the insult not realizing that for those of us born without the need for one, wheelchairs do seem like being trapped. Not so for ppl who are confined to a bed or home bound, they mean freedom & mobility. How quick the hate arose against the man who had dedicated his tme & finances for decades of his life to write laws & run annual fundraising Telethons for their benefit.
Anne Collins I never knew this about Lewis. I looked it up to confirm, and his attitude towards “Jerry’s Kids” was extremely misguided.
He once said: “God goofed, and it's up to us to correct His mistakes.” Unbelievable, to be honest. He was full of pity, but very short on compassion or understanding.
It is good that he raised money for a cause. However, using kids as props and evoking pity to hook in more donations is sad. Everyone who has done nothing wrong deserves to have their dignity and sense of self worth respected.
Thank you for posting, I truly had no idea.
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🦋I used to think wearing glasses were awesome! Given I have 3 pairs and it’s so not cool
Yeah, EssilorLuxottica's monopoly making crazy money on us.
Glasses can have a markup of 1,000% - VOX arcticle:
"This week, the Los Angeles Times spoke with two former executives of LensCrafters: Charles Dahan and E. Dean Butler, who founded LensCrafters in 1983. Both admitted that today, glasses are marked up nearly 1,000 percent."
"...Still, as the former LensCrafters executives revealed, many glasses really cost about $20 to make."
On top of it, most myopia cases are induced by over prescription.
Check endmyopia.org guys and girls.
And here I am watching this video with contacts...
And here *_I_* am, watching with completely naked eyes 🤩👁👁.
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It is also cellphones and wrist watches
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UM LIKE BR
my custom built mechanical keyboard is certainly a fashion statement, it's just that not many people will see it.
I'm 16 and I rely on my glasses to live!
@Kurt E. Clothier nice point bro why don't you donate your eyes to someone he'll be blessed and you don't require eyes to live
LIKE
It's not *clear* who invented eyeglasses XD
Neat pun!
Headphones!
Whoever said "Guys dont make passes at girls with glasses"...Maury Povich determined that was a lie! 🤷🏾♀️🤓😉
To answer your question - no. Why should everything be about fashion statement?
I hate wearing glases. They get dust or they foggy, you can wear them in the rain... Hate it.
Sadly I can affort eye surgery and I eard that it doesn't completly solve the problem. So, not great, but it's the best we got.
That said, people have told me that I look completly diferent without them. Even comparing the change with Clark Kent and Superman.
In 2030 everybody is using mahogany walking sticks as a fashion statement
Surprisingly, it was fashionable for members of the European aristocracies to walk around with canes. It was a symbol of nobility to carry a cane and the fancier your cane, the higher up you were on the nobile ladder.
Don glasses
I don't want my glasses to make a fashion statement
I hate wearing glasses, to me, they are a cause of much embarrasment. Been wearing them for 30 years and honestly, i just wish my eyes worked properly.
Why not get laser eye surgery?
I suggest you watch Aly art on youtube. I used to think contact lenses were just better, but actually it was just a matter of finding the glasses that went along with my features. I followed her advice and now everyone keeps complimenting me and telling me how nice my glasses look on me. Maybe that can help you.
@@florenciagonzalez4571 Thanks, i might check that out :)
4eyes
@@zeitgeist2720 I'm a 2eyes 🤩😊!
Who is watching in 2020 using eyes??! or in past or the future????....
Who are here after the beatbox guy?
Any megane fans?
Wait till we get iLenses
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You are trying too hard to be Vox.
Tune down the sound effects. Good sound effects should be like a good puppet master; felt by the audience, controlling the narrative, but flows seamlessly unnoticed.
When working your animations, focus on the depth and quality rather than the quantity being exhibited.
TED you are all about Technology, Engineering, and DESIGN. Put out works of amazing educational merit that is worthy of your cause and mission.
The sound designer is trying too hard.
Pretty meh TED talk. Dosen't really impart any meaningful information
I think the last bit was pretty meaningful.
People shouldn't be ashamed of disabilities.
Wish they'd separate these videos to a separate stream to the talks. Really not worth watching