Posted on 09/28/2010 7:28:07 PM PDT by shove_it
For many people past the age of 40, focusing on close objects restaurant menus, — for instance — just gets harder and harder.
Most people with this condition, called presbyopia, eventually give in and get reading glasses, bifocals or glasses with progressive lenses.
But what if there were another alternative that didn't require people to carry an extra set of glasses or have only part of their field of vision in focus at any one time?
Zoom Focus Eyewear LLC, of Van Nuys, Calif., has just such an option, and with it won this year's Silver Innovation Award. The solution: eyeglasses, called TruFocals, that the wearer can manually adjust to give clear, undistorted vision whether reading a book, working on a computer or looking into the distance.
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If you didn’t look like a Harry Potter wannabe.....
What is needed now is a little chip about the size of a flea that watches your eye and automagically adapts the lenses to whatever your eye seems to be straining to adjust to.
There would, of course, be a version where the hysterisis on the circuit is set wrong, a plane crashes and billion dollar lawsuits occur.
Pretty set path for product development these days. My grandkids won't have to worry about their vision.
/johnny
So would Barack Obama!
I concur. I have continuously variable focus, with the little hour glass zone. I had lens implants a few years ago due to cataracts, so my farsightedness is absolute. ( Before that I had extreme myopia, so it was quite a change. ) I had bifocals before, and I adjusted instantly to these new glasses, quite literally. I was very pleased from the moment I tried them on, and I would have no interest in any kind of manual adjustment.
BTW, these lens implants are a tremendous boon, as my far vision is very sharp, being limited only by the age of my retinas and a modicum of “floaters”.
If the lens is mechanically adjustable, it should be adjustable by electronic means also.
A circuit could be set up to contantly adjust it for the correct setting to whatever the lens is ‘looking’ at/
Save your money (for just a few more months) for the electro-active lens technology glasses coming from PixelOptics. They’re the real deal. Novel technology. Big players backing them. Automatic or manual switching between near and far vision. Trust me. I’ve seen (with) them. Very impressive.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panasonic-shikoku-electronics-joins-pixeloptics-in-the-development-of-electronic-eye-glasses-80692297.html
Hooray! We all get to look like the guy in “Beyond Thunderdome”.
If they’ll cost less than what trifocal high-index lenses with a decent pair of frames will, I’m in.
I’m getting desperate. After a ten-year hiatus from soft torrid lenses, I’m going to give them another try. Eye doc says materials are new, the weights are more accurate, oxygen flow is better, etc. And I could wear them for two weeks.
I won’t do trifocals. No way in hell. And yes, I’m probably being childish. And cheap.
Torrid = toric.
Blasted spell check.
We are in the same boat, if you have astigmatism. People look at me funny when I take off my glasses to read.
Buy my glasses at the Dollar Tree, nothing in there that costs over a dollar.
Oh, a dime store, you mean.
I’m not sure I would like eyeglasses that could tattle about what I’ve been looking at.
Yeah...they are ugly, but I still think they are a good idea....style must be determined by how they can change the lens...
NOW that does look interesting...
Electronic eyeglasses. Oh great! I can surf the web, watch porn, get driving directions, etc., all while knocking stuff over and tripping over curbs.
I work with a guy that has had a pair of these for a while. He likes em, but...I suspect even if they killed him, he wouldn’t say otherwise.
When these are available in cool looking frames with autofocusing lens, I will be on them immediately.
Let me guess: you weren’t the first on your block to connect to the internets. That’s cool.
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