Smart Glasses That Strip the World Bare — And Strip Us With It

For decades, travellers returning from Europe to the Middle East carried stories that were more fantasy than fact—tales shaped not by reality but by the hunger of societies that knew the world only through hearsay. One of the most persistent myths of the 1940s claimed that Europeans wore special glasses that allowed them to see people naked. It was absurd, of course, yet it spread like a small cultural fever in communities where imagination about the human body was tightly policed and ignorance was a kind of social glue. How could a pair of glasses undress women without their knowledge? The question alone was enough to ignite collective astonishment in a time when curiosity was forbidden and the body itself […]