The idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever’s onscreen.
Thanks to technology that corrects vision problems, those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyeglasses.
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Made from hair and bioresin, the resulting frames are 100 percent biodegradable.
Human hair has been turned into sustainalbe eyewear by two Royal College of Art students, Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves. Petroleum-based plastic or energy-intensive wire frames are a necessary evil for those who are not blessed with 20/20 vision. “Hair glasses,” however, tap into a readily available and renewable resource: the millions of pounds of hair cuttings that salons across the United Kingdom throw away each year.
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The emPower glasses use liquid crystals to avoid the problems of bifocals.
A new device may be joining smartphones, iPads and music players that you have to charge overnight: electronic eyeglasses. These glasses have tiny batteries, microchips and assorted electronics to turn reading power on when you need it and off when you don’t.
Seeing is blissful
For many people past the age of 40, focusing on close objects 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?
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EARBUDS can pipe audio directly from a portable player to the ear. But did you ever imagine that eyeglasses or contact lenses could deliver digital images directly from a smartphone to the retina?
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For many blind or partially sighted people, implants that stimulate healthy nerve cells connected to their retinas could help restore some normal vision. Researchers have been working on such implants since the 1980s but with only limited success. A major hurdle is making an implant that can stay in the eye for years without declining in performance or causing inflammation.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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