‘Gorilla’ glasses ‘work’
PA Westport A teenage West Coast entrepreneur, Kelvin Johnson, aged 17, of Westport, says the home-made 3-D glasses he sold at prices undercutting TVNZ do work.
The organiser of the 3-D programme, “Gorilla at Large,” to be screened on Monday, Mr Jim Flynn, has told reporters the copycat glasses would not work. But Kelvin and the owner of a Westport electronics shop, who has been selling them, proved yesterday they do.
A page from a British computer magazine that shows the 3D effect was produced and Kelvin’s glasses seemed to work better than the “official” ones.
Kelvin said he first had the idea to make them after seeing a pair at a Christchurch shop in a fried chicken chain which has been involved in marketing them nationally. Coloured cardboard, blue and red Cellophane and some double-sided Sellotape was all he needed, he said.
A Buller television shop sold them for him for $1.40 —14 c of which went to the shop. Before the shop was ordered to stop selling them by TVNZ through an Auckland attorney on Wednesday, they had sold 90 glasses.
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