Jimmy Fallonis a man of many talents.
“With these, I don’t have to carry two pairs of sunglasses,” Fallon says of the reversible invention. “I have black for when I just feel like just going, ‘No one bother me. I’m all good.’ I have blue for when I want to be quirky, when I want to be frisky.”
Fallon jokes that he came up with the “silly” idea for Flippies last summer and sent off an email to Gilboa and co-CEO and co-founder Neil Blumenthal, who he previously worked with for another invention, Spinnies. However, his email went unanswered for months.
“I thought, ‘Okay, I can accept rejection, I’m fine. He’s just not that into you.’ I totally know that,” Fallon tells PEOPLE exclusively. But once Blumenthal supposedly found the email in his spam folder — according to Fallon — the project was put into motion. The company created prototypes to Fallon’s specifications and put them to the test to make sure they were exactly what they all wanted to release to consumers.
“This project is a crusher,” Fallon says of Pupils Project, while describing how beneficial it is to families who don’t always have access to an eye doctor. “It just makes me so proud to work with them. It’s a genius idea.”
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Just like Flippies, proceeds from Spinnies were also donated to Pupils Project, which Fallon calls a “totally perfect” aspect of his ongoing collaboration with the eyewear brand.
“We couldn’t wait to team up with Jimmy again — it’s always a fun challenge to take his out-of-the-box eyewear ideas and make them a reality,” Blumenthal says. “And his passion for doing good is contagious; this collaboration will benefit our Pupils Project program to ensure kids get the glasses they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond.”
“Flippies make you feel like a superhero with your alter ego,” Fallon says. “You can wear the black side when you don’t want anyone looking, but when you want to show people you’re in a good mood, you flip. You let people know, ‘You’re about to run into a really fun person. I like them.'”
Fallon has plenty of other ideas up his sleeve — whether it’s a new toy or a shirt that fixes a common and annoying problem — and even has more ideas for sunglasses. However, he says they all still need some work.
“It’s so satisfying to come up with an idea that gets made,” he says. “I just feel like if there’s a hole I can fill with some of these silly ideas, it’s really good for me and my brain. And if I can do something that also goes to charity? Genius.”
source: people.com
