Okay so I have been getting headaches and my eyes burn from staring into my little netbook and playing hours of Call of Duty on a 46inch Sony LCD.  So I hear about these glasses called Gunnars and I was like whatever 50 cent endorses them.  Boy was I wrong about judging them like that.  So I went to the website and read testimonials and checked out a few different videos even peeped some styles of frames etc.  I wanted to try them but for 80 to 130 bucks I was still not running out to buy these things.

After an intense late night session playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 at my little brothers crib I was asking him if he had heard about them because my eyes started to noticeably burn.  Like the burn you get when your eyes are super dried out or when your friend leaves their disposable contacts in for 3 months.  I never wore regular glasses and wanted to keep it that way plus these things had a goofy yellow tint so I knew I would look like a super dork no matter what if I got them.  So I just said let me go ask somebody who has them and thats what I did.  I first went to youtube and found this video review.

This guy seemed like he wasn’t getting a check and he convinced me to at least go see them in the store.  I drove to the Microcenter in Paterson NJ only a few minutes from my home and they had a display case with about 10 pairs left all in these crazy looking rubber boxes.  I tried on every pair and this guy was assisting me letting me know he had heard they were very good for what you wanted to do.(sit in front of an LCD for extended periods of time)  So I picked a pair up thinking what the hell if these things protect my eyes from the LCD burn then it will be worth it.  I figure i would be wearing them in the dark and who would make fun of me in these very military looking things.  They only had a few different styles available unlike the website but I was torn between the cheap ones which said MLG (Major Leauge Gaming on the side) or these ones that looked like real glasses.  I chose the ones for $99 because I felt like they fit me best.  They came in a gun metal and didn’t actually look all that bad so maybe it was an impulse purchase but I felt like I did my homework and in the hope of killing my headaches and eye burn it was worth it.  Redeye is the worst and I wasn’t going to deal with it from doing what I love and my work so I made the play.

I unbox these things 2 boxes and I go setup for an intense FPS session of a game that was an eye burner.  (Battlefield 1943) After about 30 minutes I forgot I was wearing anything, they were so light on my face it was kinda weird.  Also no eye burn and no headache and I kept playing round after round just to see how far I could go without having any of my usual LCD backlash.  Keep in mind I was sitting about 5 feet away from a 46 inch Sony bravia and this is one fucking bright tv.  I am now thinking maybe these things are protecting me and I was very happy with them even though I looked like a space nerd a bit.  So I stayed up all night till 5am on my 10.2 inch netbook surfing the web making some changes to some websites I have and even took them on a pron run.  Well they did not fail me all night.  Went to sleep with clear eyes and a clear head, kinda rare to find a product that actually does what it says and does it well.  Congrats to Gunnar for this extremely smart achievement in eye protection.  I would recommend these to anyone who has a lot of screen time, techies, producers, and especially gamers.


www.gunnars.com