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| | | Pokerspecs are the brainchild of a group of devoted (or perhaps addicted) poker players whose vision is to provide their fellow players with something other than just an everyday pair of sunglasses. Poker players, after all, are not just sunning themselves on the beach dreaming of margheritas and lap dancers - we're doing a job, and we need to see what we're doing. Ordinary sunglasses just don't cut it. |  |
| | These players realized from close observation of other players that often sunglasses were as much of a hindrance as a help. Some players take them off in between hands, only putting them on once they're sure of their cards. Others peer over them, or lift them up, or have to check their cards numerous times. Let's face it, sunglasses just aren't designed for distinguishing tiny numbers and colours that you're also trying to hide from everyone else. The frustrations of sunglasses are perhaps best summed up by world-class player Phil Ivey, who admits he misread his hand in the World Series while wearing sunglasses. He subsequently threw his $1100 pair straight in the bin. As was widely reported at the time |
| | Phil's wife overheard this and said, "So, that's where those went. I thought you lost them." "Yeah," he said. "I lost them in the garbage can." "Those were nice sunglasses," she said. "Yeah, so nice that they cost me a $100,000 pot." |
|  | Well, Phil could have been $100,000 richer if Pokerspecs had been around. The idea was to make a pair of glasses with tilted lenses - lenses that allow the player a wide range of vision below the glasses themselves, yet simultaneously shield the player's eyes from others. Thus Pokerspecs were born. |
| | While the idea may be simple, the execution was not. The first hurdle to overcome was getting the idea patented, and this was no mean feat. Ultimately though, there could be no denying that the concept of tilted lens for the purpose of playing cards was an original and patentable idea, and the patent office was won over. |
| | Next came the design. By now the group of players involved had snowballed into a large, enthusiastic mass, eager to get Pokerspecs on the market. But these things cannot be rushed; above all, Pokerspecs had to be a well-designed, high-quality product. |
| So the idea was taken to Designworks, one of Europe's most reputable and prolific design consultancies who have worked on products as diverse as the ipod and Dr Who, and whose clients include among others Nike, Johnson and Johnson, Virgin Atlantic and numerous other high profile companies.
Their brief was to design the most innovative, cutting edge, practical glasses for the sole purpose of playing poker. |  |
| | Not only did their enthusiasm match that of the players, the design technology at their disposal was second to none. Digital sculpting, multi axis CNC and 3D printing were just some of the exotic, state-of-the-art tools at their disposal. Before long, an army of designers had drawn up reams of blueprints; the drawings developed into plastic models; the models became prototypes; and finally the end product took shape, just a handful of select models from literally hundreds of designs. |
| | And now, finally, after many months of planning, design meetings, legal discussions and marketing plans, Pokerspecs have arrived. We hope they fit your needs. |
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