Sunglasses with one narrow job.

Stocklens didn't start in a lab. It started with a camera on a pole.

One week there was nothing at the entrance to the neighborhood. The next there was a slim black pole with a little solar panel on top, aimed at every car that came and went. Nobody voted on it. Nobody sent a letter. It was just there, and then there was another one by the grocery store, and one at the gas station, and the doorbell next door could apparently recognize faces now.

We aren't paranoid people. We just wanted to know what all of it was actually seeing. So we read up, and the answer was pretty simple: a lot of these cameras work in infrared, and in infrared your sunglasses basically disappear.

Why isn't there a normal-looking pair of sunglasses that just handles this?

Not a mask. Not a hoodie cinched over your face. Not a visor full of LEDs. Just a clean, square pair you'd buy anyway, with a lens that stays dark when the camera switches to IR.

That's Stocklens. A classic frame, a lens that filters 99%+ of near-infrared and UV, and a price that doesn't assume you're a security expert.

What we believe

• Privacy shouldn't take a degree. Put them on, go about your day.
• Private isn't the same as hiding. It's choosing what you give away, and to whom.
• Your face isn't a barcode. Nobody should be able to scan it just because you walked past.

For the drivers, the commuters, the dads who read the fine print, the folks who just want to buy groceries without being added to a database. For anyone who wants a little of their privacy back.

Go about your day.