New Arrival: The Game Boy Smart Gaming Glasses

Not everything in the collection is old. This arrival is thoroughly modern, a pair of Bluetooth glasses that borrow the unmistakable look of the Game Boy Classic. It is here precisely because it is new, a reminder that the console's design language did not retire in the 1990s but has become shorthand for a whole era, still cool enough to sell present-day gadgets.

The Game Boy look, now available for your face and your playlist.

What It Is

Made by Mutrics, these are audio smart glasses styled after the Game Boy. Small speakers and a microphone are built into the arms, so they handle hands-free calls and music directly on your face, and the lenses can be swapped out as needed. The nod to the Game Boy is in the styling rather than any shared function, but it is unmistakable, the grey palette and the familiar visual cues doing the work. It is a genuinely useful modern device wearing a very deliberate retro costume.

Proof that the Game Boy's design outlived the Game Boy by decades.

Why It Joined the Collection

A collection about the Game Boy is really a collection about the Game Boy's cultural life, and that life is very much ongoing. Items like these glasses trace how the console's image keeps being reused decades after the hardware itself became obsolete: it has moved from being a product to being an aesthetic. Set beside the vintage merchandise, a modern piece like this makes the point better than any argument could, that the Game Boy's influence did not end when the last one left the factory. It sits happily among the collection's other modern Game Boy-inspired tech.

The Smart Gaming Glasses are documented, with photographs, on their own page in the collection.