As part of her Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming our Personal Space research, Limor Fried (creator of the Wave Bubble and the Minty MP3) developed the Media-Sensitive Glasses that automatically darken whenever a television is in view, so as to protect the wearer from television’s “hypnotic” effect. Link.

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Sounds like a variant of Zaphod’s Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, albeit tuned for a more imminent danger.