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We’ve all seen the massive range of items that have been turned into USB sticks. Whether it’s a fake piece of broken wire to deter thieves, or maybe a real stick that can store 2GB of memory. There are hundreds of them out there that you can buy and now there is a new addition to the list of strange USB sticks.

The new wacky device is a pair of sunglasses, Calvin Klein sunglasses if you really want to know. You might be scratching your head wondering how they managed to squeeze a USB memory stick into a pair of designer glasses. Well, it’s pretty cool the way they have implemented it, although it doesn’t make alot of sense why, the idea is cool. They have included the USB storage into the end of the right arm of the frames. All you need to do is pull the end of the arm off, plug it into either your PC, laptop, Mac or netbook, and then you will be able to store a massive 4GB of memory into the frame of your sunglasses.

Although it sounds odd to include a USB memory stick into a pair of glasses, I guess it makes a unique selling point as you wouldn’t get that feature in a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses. Although, when you think about the uses, if you are on a beach and require some extra storage space for your netbook, all you have to do is dismantle your glasses and you can store all you want.

Of course the biggest and most obvious downside to these glasses is that once you start using the USB storage, you can’t wear them at the same time, unless you are able to use the one arm and balance them on your head. Also, I assume they have made the connection holding the arm together strong otherwise as you remove the sunglasses, the arm might fall apart, not something you want on a beach. Also, I’m not sure if the USB is waterproof because if you’re using them on the beach, you don’t want to loose all your data if you get splashed, you certainly wouldn’t have that problem with Police sunglasses.

I guess the glasses do have some upsides, although they have a number of downsides too, and if you really don’t want to carry around a seperate memory stick, then these are perfect for you. However, they will set you back a fair bit. $199 is how much they will cost, I assume you are paying the majority of that for the glasses and not the 4GB storage.