as for new trends in anti-products, i re-visited limor fried’s site today and reminisced on my favorite project of hers, the media-sensitive sunglasses (above). these glasses are designed to filter out television signals, so that you can live in peace, as part of her “social defense mechanisms” thesis – another is a cigarette pack-sized jammer that disables cell phones for a 10-foot radius. in addition to most of her work being open-source featuring detailed instructions, what i like about it is that it suggests a new kind of product that you buy in order to avoid the other products that you buy. seems profitable, no?