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A Different Kind of Eyeglasses
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| 28 Sep 2010
| Michael Totty
Posted on 09/28/2010 7:28:07 PM PDT by shove_it
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Maybe I can rid myself of these infernal tri-focals.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:28:09 PM PDT
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
These are going to make someone a lot of money!!! I want a pair...and I know my husband would like a pair!
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:29:27 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(There are Indian Reservations in the US LARGER than Israel. Leave Israel alone!)
To: goodnesswins
Good idea but they are really unattractive.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:30:52 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
To: goodnesswins
They’re ugly but so am I. Just so I can quit knocking stuff over and tripping over curbs..
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:31:50 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(have a nice day)
To: shove_it
All I need is an ANSI Z87.1 version of these things.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:31:51 PM PDT
by
wolfpat
(Veni. Vidi. Veneer: I came. I saw. I made plywood.)
To: shove_it
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:32:15 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
Yes. If you read about them, they need to be round in order to work. It’s definitely function over form. Pretty cool tho.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:32:49 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Just ask Coates: The Obama Admin has no problem with racism as long as it's "applied correctly")
To: shove_it
I thought I saw something like this in a 60’s edition of Popular Science. That one had a pocket of fluid attached to the lens which could be swelled or slimmed by moving fluid into or out of it with a lever, changing the overall focal length. It must have had bad problems like bursting and leaking, or it would have taken the eyewear business by storm.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:33:24 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: goodnesswins
Great product, if they work as advertised. Do they come in a non-liberal style, instead of the Harry Reid rounds?
To: shove_it
If you have both hands full so as not to be able to move the adjustment slider on the glasses, it’s still kind of troublesome.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:34:54 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: shove_it
LOL! You think you’re ugly, well, you haven’t seen me.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:35:04 PM PDT
by
shiva
To: shove_it
Obviously these new glasses had inspiration...
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:35:07 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: bmwcyle
Beat me to it! I had to look up the html code for img src. Drats! Haha.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:35:57 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: shove_it
The Opti-Grab
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:36:31 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: shove_it
"....that the wearer can manually adjust to give clear, undistorted vision whether reading a book, working on a computer or looking into the distance."Maybe I can rid myself of these infernal tri-focals.
I think you would find that constantly fiddling with the manual focus adjustment a lot more onerous than just tilting your head slightly (FWIW, I wear tri-focals too). It sounds cute on paper, but I doubt the practicality of it in the real world.
To: RedCell
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:37:42 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
To: shove_it
These are just like the glasses that were invented for use in third world countries.
You inject silicon between two flexible plastic lenses, and you change the curve of the lenses.
That’s also why the lens must be round. If they were any other shape, they’d distort when the fluid was injected.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:38:48 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: bmwcyle
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:39:12 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: shove_it
Ohhhh, the Poindexter look.
Actually, these might help me with my fluctuating vision. Hmmm.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:41:22 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: Wonder Warthog
What might be nice would be clip-ons that “decorrect” for those aging viewers whose far-vision prescription is too powerful to allow them to read comfortably. If you play a musical instrument while reading from a score, it helps to be able to have the entire field of view in appropriate focus for the score.
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posted on
09/28/2010 7:42:14 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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