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Letter: Letters : Selective vision

Published 19 January 2002

From F. Bowron

Middlesbrough

The item on “Christmas Filter Specs”
(Feedback, 5 January)
reminded me of Zaphod Beeblebrox’s sunglasses in The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy. The Ju Jenta 200 Super Chromatic Peril-Sensitive sunglasses were
designed “to help you develop a relaxed attitude to danger”. At the first hint of trouble
they turn totally black “and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might
alarm you”. Is this a patent infringement?

Issue no. 2326 published 19 January 2002

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