The glasses would change their refractive power to let users focus on nearby objects like the page of a book or faraway ones like a sign on a highway.
"Bobby," he breathes, with a faraway look, "one day I'm gonna co-produce a film with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York..."...
'Oh yes', they would say, their faces changing to a faraway look, one that I came to recognize more and more as the project progressed.
No one sang, but every Israeli knew the lyrics, from a poem by the Jewish poet Rachel Bluwstein: "Will you hear my voice, my faraway one?
The result is that close objects look blocky; and faraway ones, which are just a few dots on the screen, take much longer to draw than they should.
Yes, we can all go and shout "down, down with the military regime" in Tahrir Square, without being arrested, but the possibility of a faraway sniper piercing one's eye is a real one.
It's that they want us to think about, and work on, today's real-world problems as well as tomorrow's faraway ones.
The spacecraft had been commanded to first send back five photographs taken at closest approach, but because of a software glitch, it instead sent back the images in the order they had been taken, starting with faraway ones.
He is telling us that he is no faraway one-off, but one of many in Europe and the US who have a world-view – and mean to see it implemented.
And she quickly says, with a faraway, dreamy look, "The one that did not open".
Sometimes I'd be sat at a faraway table, so no one could tell.
