Awesome Eyewear

These limited-run sunglasses from Shwood’s CAMP collection honor U.S. National Parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, and Great Smoky Mountains. They have bio-plastic frames, wood accents, polarized, impact-resistant lenses, and a mini sleeping bag pouch. 5% of sales go to local non-profits to help preserve our parks.

G1 glasses look and feel almost like traditional eyeglasses, but they’re lightweight smart glasses with an array of simple yet practical tools. A pair of tiny projectors display a monochrome interface to show navigation, live translation, note-taking, a teleprompter, and quick access to an AI assistant. Check out Jon Rettinger’s hands-on for more.

Sick of the hinges on your glasses breaking and rendering your otherwise beloved frame useless? Better hope Paul Cohen’s one-off creation catches on. The product designer made eyeglasses for himself where the arms attach to the rest of the frame using magnets instead of hinges. The arms easily come off, allowing its case to stay compact.

These sunglasses from Wiley X are great for fishing, hunting, hiking, and other outdoor activities. They offer lightweight construction, 100% UVA/UVB protection, comfy rubber nose pads and temple tips, and ventilated lenses to minimize fogging. Each pair includes removable side shields for complete ANSI Z87.1+ safety protection.

Meister X2 sunglasses offer a modern spin on Aviator-style sunglasses with their single-lens design. They look especially sweet in this ORBR II special edition, rocking mirrored blue polarized lenses and striped temples, inspired by Oracle Red Bull Racing’s team colors.

An instant classic, Kaenon’s high-clarity Rockaway sunglasses feature a lightweight frame in three mod colorways. Handcrafted in Japan, their SR-91 lenses rival the clarity of glass and are more scratch and impact resistant than glass or polycarbonate. Recessed nose pads discreetly keep the Rockaway in place.

All polarized sunglasses are not created equal. Kaenon Essentials’ handcrafted sunnies are clearer, lighter, stronger, and extremely hard to scratch, thanks to their resin-based lenses from a 150-year-old Japanese optics factory. Style standouts include Avalon, Arroyo, and Venice, each in 8+ cool frame and lens color combos.

Eyeglass wearers know it’s important to carry a cleaning cloth to keep lenses clear and scratch-free. This handsome brass capsule from Banton Frameworks is perfectly-sized to hold a microfiber lens cloth, and includes a custom printed cloth with a giant eyeball on it. It’s also available in stainless steel.

If you’re like us, we need to take our glasses off to work on the computer screen. You could leave your eyeglasses on the desk to get scratched up, or you could place them on one of Craighill’s handsome metal eyewear stands. They hold any kind of glasses and come in cast brass or stainless steel.

Sunlight is proven to boost your mood. Now sunglasses can make you happier, too. Twelve styles of SPY+ eyewear feature Happy Boost, an innovation that enhances color without dulling the white balance. It’s the first therapeutic lens tech to let long-wave blue light through while blocking detrimental short-wave blue and UV rays.

Timberland’s Earthkeepers eyewear collection introduces frames that integrate bio-based materials made from renewable castor oil instead of petroleum-based plastics. Temple detailing is inspired by Timberland’s original yellow boot, and sunglasses are polarized with an anti-reflective coating on select styles.

More than basic sunglasses, Helm Tech by SPY+ is an active multitasker. Its Happy Lens tech is designed to boost mood, alertness, color, and contrast, with polycarbonate lenses that follow the curvature of the eye to reduce eyestrain and distortion. Removable side shields and 100% UV protection block out the sun.

JBuds Frames are tiny Bluetooth speakers for your eyeglasses that direct sound to your ears. Twin attachments slip onto almost any frame to provide wireless sound as an open-air option to earbuds and headphones. Switches between music modes and calls with a built-in mic. Side benefit: makes you look like a spy.

Go big and bright or go home. Monolith 50/50 sunglasses by Spy+ Optic deliver bold style in a rainbow of colors. The large, polycarbonate single lens is curved for distortion-free panoramas, while Happy™ lens tech scientifically boosts mood. 100% UV protection reduces sun damage and the frame’s ventilation system reduces fog.

Artist and designer Jonathan Schipper created these unique eyeglass frames after being bored by the sameness of storebought glasses. They’re machined from billet 6061 aluminum with a subtly grooved texture that comes from the milling process. Available in silver, black, gold, or rhodium finishes.

Ombraz solves the biggest gripes about sunglasses: slipping off and breaking. Instead of sidearms, Ombraz uses an adjustable nylon cord that doubles as a lanyard. The lightweight frames have no hinges to bust, and German-engineered optics offer UVA/UVB protection. For every sale, Ombraz plants 20 mangrove trees.