Remembered Your Phone? Then You’ve Remembered Your Glasses.

The Ninth Day of Techness

You don’t have to spend a fortune to buy nice tech gifts. There are joy and glad tidings to be had in reasonably priced gadgets, too. Leave it to David Pogue to sniff out 12 delightful and useful ones.

The Ninth Day of Techness

If you’re over 40, you know that reading glasses are a part of life. And you know that they have a way of disappearing. So maybe you’ve bought a dozen pairs from the drugstore to leave around the house in hopes that you’ll always be able to find one when you need one.

If you’re not yet 40 — well, you’ll know someday.

ThinOptics has neatly solved the problem with this phone case. Inside is a perfect little pair of reading glasses, at your choice of magnification. There are no earpiece struts or hinges — that’s how they got them so flat — but instead, the super-flexible, springy bridge grips your nose nicely. You may lose other reading glasses, but as long as you don’t lose your phone, you’ll always have this pair.

Available for iPhone 4/4s, 5/5s, or Samsung Galaxy 4/5; iPhone 6 case coming soon. Also available as a stick-on that can go on any phone or phone case — or purse, or car dashboard.

See more gift ideas! Go to Pogue’s 12 Days of Techness.

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