I have a portable MP3 player that I’m pretty happy with. It holds a ton of music, and also stores some pictures and gives me alarms for calendar events. It’s pretty spiffy.

It also has some video playback. It can hold feature length movies, but the screen is so tiny (and scratched, my bad!) that it’s hard to watch anything. Having a pair of Vuzix iWear goggles really helps me get the most out of my portable video player. You plug the input source into the goggles (there are tons of adapters to let you plug virtually anything with a video output into the iWear) and settle in to watch the video fill your field of vision.

While watching, I never really got the impression that I was watching anything on a big screen. The screen was nicely sized and well lit, but I wasn’t mistaking the experience for watching a movie screen. All the same, it was a considerable step up from the normal portable watching I do.

It also worked well hooking up to my video game system, though it isn’t able to display high-def video input.

Set up was a snap. Just charge up the viewer and go to videotown. It took a few seconds for me to get comfortable, mostly because I wear the excessively blocky glasses associated with Johnny Depp and Ira Glass. Once I got the nose rests out of the way and discovered that the speakers aren’t designed to fit in your ears, I was off to the races. The battery life lasted long enough for me to get through a two hour movie with time to spare, and it recharges easily on any wall socket.

All in all, it’s a great product that’s pretty comfortable to wear for long periods and gives you a much better portable video experience.

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