{"id":24735,"date":"2015-08-27T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=24735"},"modified":"2015-08-31T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T23:53:04","slug":"wearable-magnifying-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wearable-magnifying-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Magnifying Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t count the number of times I have found myself needing to use both hands on a very small project. Fixing a pair of glasses, pulling a splinter, soldering small electronics, the list goes on. One solution previously reviewed on this site is the third hand<\/a>. It works pretty well, but it doesn’t move and I find it difficult to get a clear view of more than a small area of what I’m working on using a magnifying glass. <\/p>\n

I looked online for the magnifying glasses that dentists use. Good quality ones are in the hundreds of dollars, and the cheap ones all got bad reviews, except for one with a really funny name. The “Housweety Professional Jeweler’s Lighted Magnifier Visor” at amazon is currently around $8 (yes, that’s eight dollars), and since I got it it about six months ago it has become my go-to tool for anything requiring high magnification. <\/p>\n

It makes it very easy to work on very small things with both hands. I like it better than a mounted magnifying glass because it has a separate lens for each eye which makes the focus clearer and since it moves with your head you aren’t limited to working on a bench. It flips up out of the way when you don’t need it. It has five different power lenses (1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3.5x). It also has a little light on it. I just used the glasses to remove a really small splinter from my dog’s paw and the light worked out very well. It was bright enough to see what I was doing. <\/p>\n

I think it’s a cool tool because it allows me to easily do things that were difficult or impossible before, it’s inexpensive, and I use it a lot more than I expected I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A magnifying glass for your head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24739,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/24739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}