Lucyd Bluetooth Sunglasses Review: Bluetooth Shades Leave a comment

Sun shades are one of my favorite accessories, however I by no means actually received into good glasses till now. They aren’t new—WIRED wrote about Bluetooth sunglasses in 2009—however my common glasses do a lot simply by serving to me see higher, and I positively didn’t need glasses that regarded like they have been out of a sci-fi film.

Nevertheless, I’ve been listening to music, following GPS instructions, and answering calls with the Lucyd 2.0 frames for a couple of weeks now, and I’m impressed by their incognito utility. You wouldn’t know primarily based on the frames that these are hiding audio system and microphones inside. I’ve tried different app-connected glasses earlier than, just like the Ampere Dusk, and so they simply jogged my memory an excessive amount of of the enormous plastic frames they hand out at 3D film theaters. 

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Lucyd’s eyewear connects to your cellphone or laptop by way of Bluetooth, and every arm is supplied with two tiny audio system and a microphone. They’re barely thicker than your typical sunglass arms, however you get used to that fairly rapidly. 

My ordinary Pink Floyd and Machine Gun Kelly fare sounded surprisingly good, contemplating I used to be blasting it by means of sunglass arms. If I cranked it too loud, it may get a bit tinny. Audiophiles will most likely disagree—and we’ve got plenty of suggestions elsewhere when you don’t thoughts carrying one other accent—however for informal listening, it was all I wanted. 

As with different Bluetooth headphones, you’ll be able to management quantity, play, and pause, in addition to skipping songs, answering calls, and activating your system’s voice assistant with the buttons on the arms. I may additionally hear the world round me fairly simply. 

These are principally quiet for these round you, however the sound just isn’t undetectable. I might nonetheless keep away from utilizing them on full blast in public. Please don’t be that one who thinks everybody else on the practice desires to listen to their FaceTime dialog.

My private favourite use for them is listening to my GPS. I hate having to stare at my cellphone whereas strolling someplace new, particularly in a giant metropolis, so I like that I can simply flip Bluetooth on and know the place I’m going. You possibly can at all times join your cellphone to your automotive if it has Bluetooth capabilities, however I truthfully hate the way in which it cuts by means of the music to provide the subsequent route. Strolling is extra peaceable. 

Cellphone calls sounded OK to me, however I used to be advised I sounded very distant on the opposite finish. This has been an issue with each pair of Bluetooth headphones I’ve tried as of but, together with my Beats. 

Lucyd says you’ll be able to even use these to report podcasts. I didn’t strive that, however voice memos (and a TikTok draft!) recorded with the on-board microphones sounded regular. I’d keep pretty near your cellphone although, because the connection began to interrupt up on the different finish of my house.

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I attempted the model’s Moonshot, together with an older model that’s now not obtainable. Whereas Lucyd presents a few different frames, they’re all comparable, and I want there have been extra enjoyable ones (and designs meant for large heads like mine). Sadly, I just like the older model I’ve greater than any of the present kinds.

In my testing, I discovered that between listening to music and podcasts the battery delivered the claimed 12 hours. The glasses cost by way of a magnetic pogo-pin charger with pins that stick to every arm. Not like rivals’ merchandise, these include a charging block (I’m glaring at you, Apple).