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Shop for Eyewear Online – Save Time & Money!

There are quite a few conditions that upset an individual’s eyesight. The good thing is that a product as simple as eyeglasses is all that is warranted to remedy the issue. The most common issues are farsightedness and nearsightedness. Farsighted persons have a troublesome time seeing things near by, where those that are nearsighted do not see things well far away. Most persons over the age of forty will suffer from Presbyopia. As people age the lens in their eyes can lose its elasticity making them slightly farsighted. It has a propensity to continue through the aging process and is commonly helped with lenses that magnify objects. Bifocal and progressive lenses are often the most standard choice for this affliction.

Appropriate consideration of your vision is tremendously significant to your overall health. Picking out the proper eye glasses is one way to make sure that you are taking good care of your vision. Persons who do not adjust their vision or have wrong prescriptions can struggle with things such as headaches, nausea, and vertigo. It is important to have a once-a-year exam to keep your prescription up-to-date and to take omega three fish oil for maximum eye health. Once the doctor gives you a new prescription you can purchase at local optical stores or find high quality options on the net.

People who buy eyeglasses on the internet find out very easily that the prices are less costly than regular optical shops. The main reason for this is that the online retailers have far less overhead and are able to buy in bulk at greater savings. They are then able to pass that discount on to their customers. Customers find the process very suitable, a large selection of options, and no pressure from sales people pushing them into making a decision. Online access is twenty four hours a day, so people can purchase whenever it fits into their busy schedules.

There are several advantages to buying eyeglasses on the Internet.  One of them is selection. Since online retailers don’t have to maintain stock in a warehouse, they can offer many more products than a traditional brick and mortar store. This also allows them to offer another benefit, which is a lower price. Not having to pay for real estate to store inventory means that they can offer reduced pricing. When shopping online you can find many top designer eyewears brands, like the Mikli eyeglasses collection by Alain Mikli or even Oakley sunglasses at very affordable prices. Often, even after paying for shipping charges you are still getting your glasses at a great discount when compared to physical stores.

The first thing is to do a search on the internet for choices of online retailers who sell eye glasses. Explore their and prices. Many people like to compare the offerings of two or more websites. When you have made your selection you will need to have your prescription accessible. It ought to be less than a year old to make sure it is up to date for your vision needs. You will need to enter that information into the proper lines when you place your order. You will be asked to choose your shipping method and for your credit card number to pay for your order. In a short amount of time your glasses will be mailed to your home and you will have saved a good amount of time and money.

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LCD Lenses Coming to a Frame Near You

Dynamic Eye, a sunglass company that merges sunglasses with technology, has announced that they have finished the final testing stages for their LCD eyewear. According to Dynamic Eye’s website, this innovative eyewear will revolutionize the eyewear industry.

Dynamic Eye’s LCD sunglasses use LCD technology and a small camera to block glare directly. The LCD lenses can pinpoint sources of light and glare, and block out those small spots directly rather than darken the entire lens. This technology allows as much needed light to pass through the lens as possible, and block every small instance of unneeded light.

Though Dynamic Eye has stated that the technology has been tested and works, the company itself does not have the financial means to launch the product. They are currently accepting pledges, which are paid by preordering a pair of the LCD shades.

Panasonic Making Electronic Lenses

If the lenses for your eyeglasses simply aren’t good enough, how bout some electronic lenses that do the focusing for you? That’s what Panasonic and PixelOptics have in store for 2011.

According to a recent press release sent out by Panasonic’s corporate site, the Japanese electronics co. is working with PixelOptics to build lenses for emPower!, PixelOptic’s electronically focusing glasses.

Ron Blum, President and CEO of Pixel said, “I am delighted to be able to make this announcement. Panasonic is an outstanding company, with a long history of being best in class in electronics and manufacturing. They will deliver for Pixel an outstanding electronic focusing lens product.”

Ron Blum further stated, “The lens product that will be manufactured by Panasonic will be an electronic semi-finished lens blank that is made out of 1.67 thin and lightweight optical grade plastic material having a very thin layer of liquid crystal buried beneath the front surface of the lens blank. This allows for virtually all prescriptions to be fabricated. Semi-finished lens blanks are an industry standard, having a known finished curvature on the convex side of the lens blank and being unfinished on the other side. However, prior to emPower! these standard semi-finished lens blanks had a static focus. This means that once shaped into the proper prescription or focus the prescription is frozen and is not capable of a change of focus. The emPower! electronic semi-finished lens blanks represents the first electronic semi-finished lens blanks in the world. The emPower! electronic semi-finished lens blanks are capable of dynamic focus and with appropriate processing into finished lenses are capable of changing focus from far to near while allowing clear vision  of  everything in between once fabricated to the wearer’s eyeglass prescription.”

The glasses are intended for those who have bifocal or progressive lenses. The  lenses instantly focus on objects when they are up close. They are powered by a rechargeable battery and have three modes of operation: automatic, manual on, and manual off.

This business venture is led by Panasonic’s healthcare department, Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. Yukinori Okazaki, Chief Technology Officer of Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. added “It is indeed a pleasure to have now passed this project on to the Business Unit of Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.  to assist  Pixel  in  its  scale  up  and  manufacturing  needs.   emPower!  represents  a  major  step  forward  for providing  better  vision  correction  to  the  millions  of  patients  worldwide  who  are  afflicted  with presbyopia.   Presbyopia  is  a  very  common  vision  disorder  that  affects  individuals  at  approximately  40 years  of  age.   It  causes  these  individuals  to  have  trouble  focusing  on  objects  that  are  close  at  first  and then also at their finger tip distance a few years later on.”

The lenses and glasses combo are expected to hot the market in late 2011, early 2012. Check back here for more details as this story develops.

Eyeglass Prescriptions Becoming More Accurate Than Ever Before

Two new machines for eye doctors have recently been released that are revolutionizing the eye industry: The i.Profiler plus and the i.Scription. The i.Profiler plus is capable of measuring eye fractions down to 1/100 of a diopter, whereas standard eye test machines only go to 1/25.

The i.Profiler also measures other individual eye discrepancies, which it sends to the i.Scription to compute the eyeglass subscription. Many patients are receiving 20/16 to 20/13 vision, which is far better than standard 20/20.

A more accurate prescription can drastically improve night vision and reading vision. The i.Profiler plus can identify eye aberrations, corneal problems, and other eye problems that eyeglasses can help correct. This innovative technology is being compared to HD vision for eyeglass wearers.

Not all doctors are carrying the new i.Profiler or i.Scription, check with your local eye doctor to see if they have it in office.

“Know About The Glow” Campaign Sheds Light on Children’s Eye Disease

When you take a picture of a child and the photograph reveals a yellow glow in their eye, it might be something much more dangerous than just a camera reflection. Megan Webber discovered this when she noticed that numerous pictures of her son showed a glow in his left eye. Luckily for her and her son, Benjamin, she took him to the hospital almost immediately and his vision was saved.

The reoccurring glow in Benjamin’s eye was a sign of Coats’ disease. Coats’ disease is a lack of capillary growth in the retina, which leads to underdeveloped vision and even blindness in children.  The “glow” in photographs is caused by a cholesterol deposits in the eye that reflect back the camera flash instead the blood vessels reflecting back a reddish glow.

After Megan discovered that her son had Coats’ disease, she and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles joined forces to start the “Know About The Glow” campaign, which aims to inform parents of this potentially blinding and often unnoticed eye disease. You can find out more about “Know About The Glow” here, and you can red more about Coats’ disease here.

Oakley Donates Sunglasses to Chilean Miners

Always thinking ahead of the curve, Oakley eyewear company donated 35 pairs of sunglasses to the miners who were trapped in the cave. What do trapped miners need sunglasses for, you say? After being without sunlight for an extended period of time, the pupils become overly dilated to compensate for the lack of light. Once the the miners were set free, direct  sunlight to their dilated pupils would cause severe UV damage to their eyes. Hence the need for sunglasses, and that’s where Oakley stepped in.

According to a statement Oakley released, a Chilean journalist had contacted the company to address the potential problem and a possible solution: donate some shades. Never one to pass up a great PR campaign, Oakley donated 35 pairs of Radars with Path and Range lens shapes, which cover all sides of the eyes. The sunglasses are also 100% UV protective. All of the miners’ sunglasses came in black as well. Want some Oakley Radars of your own? You can find them here.

FramesDirect.com Now Hiring!

FramesDirect.com, the world’s leading online eyewear company, is now hiring for two new positions according to their website.  The positions posted are Conversion Senior Analyst and Director of Online Customer Acquisition. You can find out how more about these positions and how to apply for them here http://www.framesdirectblog.com/austin-job-site-conversion-senior-analyst/ and here http://www.framesdirectblog.com/austin-job-director-online-customer-acquisition/

Witch Contact Lenses for Halloween Costumes

If you’re really interested in making this Halloween costume one that your friends and family and pretty much anyone who will see you will remember, then using witch contact lenses for Halloween costumes might be a good idea for you. These witch contact lenses for Halloween Costumes really allow you to customize your costumes and you don’t even need to be dressing as a witch to use the witch contact lenses for Halloween costumes for costumes. They go great with many other costume designs, too.

You can get witch contact lenses for Halloween costumes from anyone who is authorized by the FDA to sell them to you but you should make sure that they ask you for a prescription. Due to this, you need to go see your eye doctor before purchasing them as you need to be able to get the proper prescription even if you don’t regularly wear contact lenses.

Getting contact lenses just for Halloween can really help to draw your outfit together but at the same time it is an expensive purchase to make simply for a costume, especially if you aren’t going to be entering into any costume contests or the like. For this reason, and this reason only, you should definitely think about considering what you may be interested in dressing as next year or whether or not you will be able to use the colored special effects contacts with some other costume if you need to just so that you know you aren’t spending a good deal of money or something that you will only be using once.

There are many different types of contacts, not just witch contact lenses for Halloween costumes. If you’re interested in being a cat then they have cat eye lenses but if you’re really into the Twilight series then you can get eyes like Edward Cullen or like the new vampires in New Moon. There are many different ways to change around your costume and make it unique but nothing is quite like having a colored special effect contact lens.

Video Sunglasses from Vuzix

The future is here, and that is more than apparent with tech company Vuzix’s new digital video sunglasses. The sunglass line, called Wrap, has 4 different models: Wrap 230, Wrap 310, Wrap 920, and Wrap 920AR. These sunglasses have different functionalities, but their main purpose is to bring the high-tech digital video of movies, television and Internet into the portable view of sunglasses.

Wrap 230

This model connects to almost and video device, such as an iPhone, and enables the wearer to see multiple types of video, including 2D and 3D. Just plug the sunglasses into your phone or other device, put in your earbuds and enjoy all the qualities of a home theater.

Wrap 310

This model is like the 230, but offers its viewing screen in a 16:9 widescreen format.

Wrap 920

This is Vuzix’s most highly technological model available and offers a huge 67-inch virtual screen as seen from 10 feet.

Wrap 920AR

This model is the real kicker. It’s just like the 920, but it also has two cameras on the outside of lenses showing the real world. The strange part is that the camera lens merges with the video capabilities and “brings mixed and augmented reality to life.” I’m not even sure exactly what that means, but it sounds mind blowing.

These innovative shades are available online in most countries, and range in price from $169 to $349. You can find out more about these digital sunglasses here.

Win Free Sunglasses from FramesDirect

It seems like anything is possible on Facebook nowadays. No stranger to that scene, FramesDirect is giving away a free, brand new pair of Native sunglasses on their FB page. The sunglasses are to be given away through a contest called the “Story Teller Contest.”

Here’s how the contest works: three photos have been posted on FramesDirect’s FB photo album. The contestants enter the contest by writing a story in the comments field that connects all three photos/ The comment that has the most “likes” by Oct. 5, 2010 at 3 pm CST will get to choose one of three pairs of Native sunglasses for their prize. The Native sunglass models are Bolder, Nano2, and Dash XP. All of the sunglasses come with a hardshell carrying case, an extra pair of lenses (the lenses are interchangable, and a cloth carrying case that also acts as a cleaning cloth. FramesDirect plans on having a storyteller contest every two weeks until all three of the Native sunglasses are gone.

Facebook members must be a fan of FramesDirect to leave a comment, but anyone can like a comment on Facebook. Contestants can alert their friends by email, chat, twitter, blogs and other online resources to like their story. You can see the photos and join the contest by clicking here.