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James Sooy and Oliver Gibson have with Pierced Glasses - the most minimalist eyewear since the Pince-nez glasses that clip onto your nose were invented in the 1840's.

Here's the step-by-step:

Get pierced - an internally-threaded barbell that goes through the skin above the bridge of your nose.

Create L-shaped metal pieces that screw onto the barbell.

Attach rare earth magnets to the glasses; these hold the glasses on.

Don't get rid of the bridge pieces on the glasses; when you the glasses, they let the lenses sit on your nose and take the actual weight of the lenses.

"I don't really have to worry about losing my glasses now," said Sooy, a Dallas artist. Both Sooy and his friend Oliver Gilson had separately thought about making a functional piercing. The idea was there even before Morpheus wearing black sunglasses that hovered on the bridge of his nose in "The Matrix" films, the two say. "The fact that it in that movie shows how universal the idea is," said Gilson.

Sooy and Gilson began collaborating on their common idea in November 2004. Sooy sketched the original design using a marker and a napkin. Soon, Gilson had prepared the first prototype of the pierced glasses. "Once we they were viable, we to make them better," Gilson said. Since then, they've revamped the design to add hinges to improve the glasses' angle, and placed magnets inside the brackets so Sooy can easily the lenses to bathe and sleep.

For those who think that Pierced Glasses are dangerous or crazy, they refer to other surgical alternatives to glasses: "Paying to have someone cut your eyes and shoot a laser in them (just so you don’t have to wear glasses) seems extreme to me…"