Top 5 Gadgets Designed By Celebrities


#4 Polaroid photo glasses - Lady Gaga    

This pop star is not only a famous singer but also the creative director at Polaroid (the camera company). Just like her music, even her eyeware that could capture photos through its glass has become a hit. The product named grey label was released in 2011 even before the release of Google glass which uses the same technology.

The device has a pair of in-built 1.5inch display and embedded cameras that let you take snaps with a button. Robert Brunner, creative director of Ammunition, the design firm which worked with Lady Gaga on the project said that "She takes it very personally-she really feels this stuff is a representation of her. She has ideas coming from her ethos and perspective”. This gadget can be pre-loaded with slideshows for real-time photo sharing and is displayed in her music video ‘Poker Face’. Lady Gaga can indeed be called as the ‘Fame Monster’.

#3 Nacent WiFi - Hedy Lamarr

The Hollywood’s killer beauty Hedy Lamaar was inturn a killer in all ways. This celebrity developed a secret communication system to be used by Navy during the world war period, which uses radio waves for blowing up torpedoes.

Even if her concept was not implemented by the U.S. Navy at that time, it was later used in 1962 to fight against Cuba. When the wireless technology known as Wi-LAN became popular in 1988, it acquired a 49 percent claim to Lamarr's patent. The Bluetooth, CDMA and Wi-Fi technologies used in wireless devices has her patents as the base.

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