Bell+Howell Tac Glasses review: "not particularly good"

At one point the glasses are put over the camera lens to reveal a truck barreling down the road towards you! These glasses must be very good if they can reveal previously unseen trucks. I’m always worried about surprise trucks. Later in the ad, a previously bare hillside has a hidden soldier revealed when the glasses are put on – very tactical indeed! I had to buy them now.

I was very excited about this purchase but unfortunately, they’re not particularly good.

• Price: We bought a pair for $30 at The Warehouse but in terms of feels, these flimsy specs feel more like $2 shop varieties.

• Fit: This is subjective, but they weren’t comfortable on my face.

• Usage: Tac forbids you from using these glasses when driving, and that rules out about 95% of my sunglass-wearing time.

• Lenses: The lenses are orange/copper in the Tac advert and on their packaging; however, my sunglasses were blue/green.

  

Things hadn’t got off to the best start – tactically speaking. Still I sucked it up, put on my new Tac glasses and wandered the streets. A quick glance at my refection in a shop window made me realise that I’d never be mistaken for a plain-clothed hero, just a guy in ill-fitting sunnies. These glasses didn’t reveal any hidden trucks or snipers either, it was just TV trickery. I didn’t even feel like they were even particularly effective sunglasses in bright, sunny conditions.

Would I recommend them to anyone? No.

Sunglasses complaint upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint about a misleading TV ad for Tac Glasses, highlighting the sunglasses' disregard for safety by promoting their use for blocking glare while driving despite being unsuitable for this purpose.