Anton Chekov’s Pince-Nez

Origin
Anton Chekov was a Russian physician and writer, thought to be a great writer of short stories today. He was a playwright but left the theater when one of his plays met sour review. His originality in the short story form inspired many writers including James Joyce. An observation he made is now famously known and used widely in media is called Chekov’s Gun. It is where an unimportant thing, person or statement, usually an object, is talked about in the beginning of the story for a short time and then the story continues. Around the end of the story, the element is reintroduced and is usually seen as something that was once trivial, but is now pivotal to the story.

Effects
Chekov’s pince-nez allows the wearer to experience clairvoyance of any object or person looked through it. This can be immediately controlled to zone in on a specific object or search for one person out of a large crowd. The downside is the user tends to ask more questions instead of answering them, rendering it usually unhelpful for field work involving more than one person.