The law won't save us from Meta's 'pervert glasses'. The only solution is mockery | Jonathan Liew

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Let's shame them off the streets So far I am yet to be tempted into purchasing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Nor am I one of those consumers who professes to be "really into gadgets", a preference I've always found weirdly unspecific. It's subtly telling when people claim to be into "gadgets", because they're never talking about, say, a tin opener.

How it works

• What they really mean is something gimmicky and expensive that almost certainly requires the services of a datacentre and enough water to irrigate Kent.
• Even if I were to surmount these two obstacles, you then get into the ethics of the thing.

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