ANTIDOTE by Nicolas Gomes from france
designer's own words:
DISCOVER
The Antidote project draws its inspiration from the deepest part of oceans: the abyss. Little known, they represent 80 % of the biggest ecosystem of the planet. In these dark places, populated by mysterious creatures, the vision is the daily struggle. To remedy this lack and survive in this vulnerable environment, some species produce bioluminescence. They allow them to light their field of view, or to mislead their predator. The photophores they develop are remarkable! The few humans that have ventured into such depths admired the splendor of this place, where jellyfishes and many other species dance in a colorful parade with lightness. The more we come down, the more colors vary, for blue to red, until invisibility.
DISRUPT
Antidote glasses owe their design to Saccopharynx. Like a dragon, this creature has a huge mouth, that keeps open, and closes when prey venture there. Its lines gives to the glasses a slim and lightweight shape. The most fascinating and the most surprising, is the copepod. This crustaceans, straight out of a science fiction movie, provided with an abyssal laser, gives to the project all its originality! It liberates a very colorful liquid that runs through its body and it sends towards its prey to dazzle, or use it as a defense. How about you to have in your possession such a weapon of seduction?
DESIGN
Antidote is a collection of glasses made of grilamid, sunglasses or eyeglasses, proposed in four tints of glasses. Five models of interchangeable temples are proposed in initial box. They separate from the glass by simple pressure on the button near end piece. Each of the temples is equipped with a tube containing a colored liquid, available in five different colors: blue, green, yellow, magenta and red. By translating the logo on the crystal part of the temples, it divides into two parts, to advance the tube to make it appear or disappear in the temples behind the logo.
DEPLOY
In addition to varying the colors on the same temple, according to your humor, Antidote glasses allow the high performance sportsmen, to benefit from the highest protection of polycarbonate glasses at any time! Indeed, thanks to the same system of detachable temples, it will be possible to adapt the glass on a helmet, with specific temples. Available in several colors, the helmet will be intended for bicycle or water sports, kitesurf, windsurf for example... The glass is mounted on two specific temples clipped on the helmet behind the logo. A translational adjustment will adapt the glasses on the face. For passionate sportsmen about high technologies, a camera can equip the helmet in front, in the place provided for this purpose.
By translating the logo, it separates into two parts, to advance a tube containing a colored liquid. By translating the button in the other side, it disappear in the temples behind the logo.
Five models of interchangeable temples are proposed in initial box, whose a high-end model, in carbon fiber, which can be sold optional, or substituted by a grilamid model. They part from the glass by simple pressure on the button near end piece.
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The box, made of aluminium, contains the five interchangeable temples and are presented in cork. The cork is visble when box is closed, through a glass protection, in order to make appear the liquid contained in the temples, and to make it looks like real antidotes!
The different glasses tints proposed are: yellow-red, purple-blue, black and transparent. A little box, containing a pair of glasses and a pair of temples is offered (in the box, you can see the carbon fiber model, with a black edition for the frame)
The bicycle helmet version. It will be possible to adapt the glass on a helmet, with specific temples. Moreover, it will also be possible to turn up the glasses by pressing the logo helmet (by a spring system) and get down simply by catching them by the bridge.
With its structure in dark cork, obtained naturally by a heating process already existing, and its graphene coating, an innovative new material, it will offers the comfort and the most extreme lightness, (graphene provide a resistance 200 times higher than steel, and is 6 times lighter! )