That Old-Time Hucksterism: The Oddest Doohickeys of Industrial-Age Entrepreneurs

Re:That Old-Time Hucksterism: The Oddest Doohickeys of Indus... by Malic on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:47PM (#13445980)

"Laying Down Glasses", heck, I could use a set of those. There might be the revival of a product idea here...

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Re:That Old-Time Hucksterism: The Oddest Doohickeys of Indus... by cbr on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:05PM (#13446140)

They still sell them: https://amazon.com/Prism-Glasses-Eye-Bed-Spectacles/dp/B000R...

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Re:That Old-Time Hucksterism: The Oddest Doohickeys of Indus... by ThinkingGuy on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:50PM (#13446010)

I actually had something like this when I was a child. It was a contraption, like a periscope, made of cardboard, that you wore over your eyes (it fit over my glasses) to read while lying down. It worked great. As I recall, I ordered it out of novelty catalog.

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