Inventor Creates Periscope Glasses So You Can See Over Tall People At Gigs

If you've ever attended a gig or festival only to find that some 6'7 bloke is stood directly in front of you, then one inventor might just have the solution to all your problems.

The glasses add one foot (or 30.5cm) on to the wearer's normal eye-level - and I'm honestly torn between hailing them as a genius or a joke, maybe they're both.

"It works well, though dancing with it on might be a challenge!"

That's alright, mate, I'm too cool to dance anyway.

He created the glasses using a sheet of mirrored acrylic with a 45-degree bend, to ensure the smaller mirror can reflect the larger mirror, which faces outwards, giving whoever wears them a better view.

The glasses were designed after Microsoft Surface challenged inventors to come up with 'extraordinary solutions' for 'everyday problems' for an exhibition in London.

And Wilcox certainly met the brief there, didn't he?

"Creativity is important because the world has many problems and challenges, and we need a lot more people with creative solutions to solve them.

"I think that everyone can become more creative and increase their ability to think up new ideas.

"Creativity is just a particular way of thinking that can be learned and practised like any other skill."

He added: "Some of my ideas develop from observations on human behaviour and I express them through the objects I create.

"I also experiment with materials to try to find surprises that can't be found simply by thinking with a pen or a computer."

Which is all fair enough - having said that, I'm still not 100 per cent sure I fancy rocking a pair of these the next time I go to a gig.