Live IRL (In Real Life) and see everything except screens
Americans spend 11 hours a day looking at screens, NY Times 2018. We need and deserve more tools to help us balance our interaction with tech and consumption of media. IRL Glasses use horizontal polarizers to block the light from LCD/LED displays found in TVs — they also work to as sunglasses to block UV light.
About IRL Glasses on Product Hunt
“Live IRL (In Real Life) and see everything except screens”
IRL Glasses launched on Product Hunt on October 14th, 2018 and earned 355 upvotes and 55 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Americans spend 11 hours a day looking at screens, NY Times 2018. We need and deserve more tools to help us balance our interaction with tech and consumption of media. IRL Glasses use horizontal polarizers to block the light from LCD/LED displays found in TVs — they also work to as sunglasses to block UV light.
On the analytics side, IRL Glasses competes within Meditation, Wearables and Tech — topics that collectively have 816.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how IRL Glasses performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted IRL Glasses?
IRL Glasses was hunted by mygreg. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of IRL Glasses including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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