From Quirky to Genius: Discover Japan's Unique Inventions

3. Glasses with Blink Reminders

What it is: glasses that alert you to blink when you spend too much time staring at a screen. Created in 2009; Average Cost: $422* Masunaga Optical Manufacturing is a Japanese optical manufacturer that produces wink glasses. With the help of sensors, the Wink Glasses can tell how long you've been staring at a screen—be it an Android, an Apple iPhone, a PC, or anything else—without blinking.

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Glasses with a Blink Reminder @Warish Ali Shaikh/FFacebook.com The right lenses of the Wink Glasses become foggy as soon as the sensor is activated and determines that you need to blink. You can't see well until you blink once more. This keeps your eyes from straining by occurring every five seconds. In America, eye strain is a prevalent health issue, with 59% of people reporting symptoms of it.