From the opening scenes in the original The Terminator movie, we get a glimpse of a future world gone mad, where machines have taken over and humans run for cover, in fear for their lives, as they are chased by different types of machines. We see flying machines shooting at fleeing humans, while robotic tanks crush hundreds of human skulls under their massive treads. Eventually we learn that this bleak future world of 2029 is controlled by a network of sentient machines, called Skynet, that are bent on the destruction of the human race. As a way to stop the human race’s demise, a human is sent back in time to keep the future from unfolding.
Unfortunately for the protagonist in the movie, a Terminator is also sent back to stop our hero from succeeding. The Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, appears human, but we learn he is a cyborg, basically a thinking machine covered in skin. The great unveiling comes at a point in the movie when the Terminator is hurt, and needs to “fix” his eye. During that scene (which you can watch, below), he dons a pair of Gargoyle sunglasses to hide his grotesque robotic eye, and keeps them on for the duration of the movie. In fact, the Terminator and his glasses are so linked in people’s minds that they often think he was wearing them from the very beginning of the film.
Today’s remarkable find are the Original SCREEN USED Terminator (1984) sunglasses:
The Terminator checks himself out in the mirror.
According to the listing, there were two sets of glasses used during the movie:
“One pair that was used was the regular Gargoyles sunglasses, the other pair was used on animatronic puppet of Arnold Schwarzenegger, this pair was MODIFIED to be used during the “motel/mirror scene” This modified pair is completely darkened to cover the robotic endoeye, so it would not be visible. These SCREEN USED T1 Gargoyles sunglasses come with Certificate of Authenticity issued by the stunt crew member ( Tony Cecere ) who acquired the these sunglasses after filming. These sunglasses are numbered with proprietary invisible ink.”
We found an interesting video on YouTube.com that shows the “motel/mirror scene” referred to above. It comes at about 1:36 of the video:
Well, we read an article from The New York Times, entitled How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000, which gave us this illuminating piece of data:
“Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain. “
The simulation of the human brain is run on a network of 16,000 computers, and the article goes on to report how this machine-based neural network taught itself to recognize cats. If you need 16,000 computers to recognize cats, how many computers do you need to recognize humans? And how many to become sentient?
Let’s just hope Google sticks to its “do no evil” mantra, and doesn’t suddenly decide to call the network “Skynet.”
[Editor's note: thanks to Alex for providing the link to the NYT article]
The Terminator’s sunglasses were made by Robert Marc in NYC.
FOR THE HECK OF IT, I BET THE OWNER WOULD WANT $10,000. THEN I WENT TO THE EBAY SITE AND LO AND BEHOLD! GUESS I WAS RIGHT ON–AT LEAST FOR THE ASKING PRICE! HA!
Sheesh, i couldn’t afford them even if i had D. Trumps money!
I’ll bet that these don’t even sell, the listing say’s that they were used in the movie but it doesn’t say that Arnold himself wore them. I think even if he did and he signed them they may not even sell for a starting price of 10k.
Only worth it if you are willing to pay for it!
Pretty cool. I have a t2 head, and glasses would look nice on it.
I used to have a pair of those; they were made by Gargoyle and marketed as the “Classic 85″, I bought a pair in 1993 when i was in the Army and wore them while in uniform.
They were good, plus offered some protection from impact (they were the first sunglasses used by the militsary as safety glasses); that was before Oakleys became common wear for soldiers overseas.
$10K in this economy? If someone does bid or buy this they have wayyyyyyy too much disposable income. Of course I also hear about people that buy $1 million dollar tear down homes in California.
These are cool but not 10k cool. I have been watching that show where Hollywood movie items are found and sold. Some times things do bring a high price but no one usually will start bidding unless the price starts out at a more reasonable level. According to what I see on this show these would bring 2 to 5k and could go higher. These bidders on this show know what the fud they are doing and will not over pay.
Now all that being said I would pay some where between 5 and 10k for them myself if Arnold did ware them and I was a multi-millionaire and I did want them to impress my buddies.
We would be out fishing and I would just say oh, by the way, these are the terminator sunglasses Arnold was waring on-screen in the movie. My buddies would probably make fun of me for paying too much for them, we would drink lots of beer and laugh about it for the rest of the day. Then I would throw them in the drawer and put on my good prescription fishing sunglasses and just forget about them.
10k to be cool for one afternoon….. .
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WHY I ASK WHY DOES GOOGLE NEED TO DO ANYTHING MORE THAN PROVIDE A MEDIUM TO ACCESS THE INTERNET ??
NOT TO GIVE THE GOVERNMENT INFO ON US OR BUILD ANYTHING ANYWHERE
GOOGLE IS JUST THE HAND OF BIG BROTHER……………
THINK ABOUT IT
THEN STOP THEM
I bet they used many pairs in the movie, swab it for Arnold’s DNA.
Ugh. Way too many people on here who don’t know what ‘screen used’ means. Folks, these glasses were used in the movie, that does not equate to Arnold having to wear them to be ‘screen used’
Chances are these glasses were used in the exact manner shown in the video I.E. the glasses worn by the dummy for the eye repair sequence. Bidding would be on a piece of movie memorabilia, not on glasses worn by Arnold.
If Skynet had not sent a terminator back through time to kill Sarah Connnor and thus prompting the human resistance to send Kyle Reese back through time to stop it, would John Connor have ever been born? After all, it was Kyle who impregnated Sarah Connor.
Just a thought that popped into my head.
His asking price is too much. If he intends on selling these, he’ll have to lower it. I wouldn’t buy them for several hundred dollars myself, but then again I’m probably not the target audience.
Id probably go 2.5K.
he also wears them at many other times in the movie, i’m sure there are many pair that he wore!!