I'm just happy when I think of all the stress I've saved over they years by never getting too caught up in the 'quality' of a ruby lens. To each their own, though, in this crazy little hobby of ours.

Does anyone remember the Oakley website when they released the Ruby Juliet to coincide with the X-Men film?

It had it's own page at oakley.com/rubyjuliet

They had a pop up window that showed the Juliet and also had a 360 degree view of the Cyclops visor.

Luckily it's been archived - one of my first Oakley.com memories.

Front page with the visor and Ruby Juliet: http://web.archive.org/web/20000229112251/http://www.oakley.com/

Ruby Juliet sub page pop up: http://web.archive.org/web/20000918091320/http://www.oakley.com/RUBYJULIET/

Also here's a forum from 2000 about 'normals' reacting to the price of the 'Cyclops sunglasses'.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=35058

(Although to be fair, I remember Juliets were US$275 at the time, so US$400 was a huge price increase!)

Anyone tried the ruby polarised yet?