June 14, 2016

Cheesecake -- revealed secrets

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When I was a kid there were advertisements in my comic books for X-ray glasses, which -- they claimed -- allowed you to see through women's clothing. Only $5! Wow! (and lots of other exclamation points!)

And I always wondered. You know, it would be pretty cool, wouldn't it? And it isn't all that much money; it seems improbable that it would work, but maybe, just maybe...

I never ordered anything like that. For one thing, in second grade I wasn't actually all that interested in girls. For another, my allowance was only 25 cents a week, so even $5 was pretty steep. (And anyway, I always spent it on candy at George's Store.) But I've always wondered.

Well, we have the magic of Japanese fan artists to let us know. Today's search term is "x-ray_glasses", and it won't even cost you $5.

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You know, I can't say I'm surprised so many of them are about To Love-ru. Didn't this actually happen in one of the episodes?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Cheesecake at 05:50 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 Technically implausible.  Terahertz imaging systems are much bulkier than illustrated here, and where is the false-colour data coming from?

(Seriously though, people are building things like that.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 14, 2016 06:21 PM (PiXy!)

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I remembered wrong. They were $2, not $5. (In my defense, that was 55 years ago.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 14, 2016 06:22 PM (+rSRq)

3 And, of course, there are IR cameras which can more-or-less see through polyester.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 14, 2016 06:30 PM (+rSRq)

4 I see you stumbled upon the TSA's anime stash.

Posted by: cxt217 at June 14, 2016 06:59 PM (ihsfL)

5 And of course every female celebrity eventually learns the lesson about flash photography and supposedly-opaque fabric.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at June 14, 2016 08:46 PM (ZlYZd)

6 J, I don't know about that. (I've never been a female celebrity, of course.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 14, 2016 10:50 PM (+rSRq)

7 Didn't this actually happen in one of the episodes?

Yup.  And, of course, the glasses locked on to Rito's head just before he headed to school.  (They were Lala's repair goggles, so she could see inside her mistakes inventions.)

Reality-modifying goggles are the main tech in Dennou Coil, as seen on the cover of part 2 of Siren Visual's release.  Fortunately, your antirori filter seems to have kept it out of this gallery.

Posted by: Mikeski at June 15, 2016 12:41 AM (vBu7I)

8 The ones in Dennou Coil are VR glasses and nobody's nude since they control their own appearance in cyberspace.

There was a hentai game with something like x-ray glasses, but I forget the name.

Posted by: muon at June 15, 2016 05:20 PM (IUHrD)

9 and nobody's nude since

In the show, yes.

In the fan art that's being farmed for these posts, gooooood luck.

Posted by: Mikeski at June 16, 2016 12:57 AM (vBu7I)

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