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"Prescription glasses" only mean "glasses with optical properties", so glasses that actually do anything with focus, as opposed to e.g. non-prescription sunglasses or non-prescription accessory glasses that people wear to look smart or something.
It doesn't mean you need a prescription for them.
(That said: in some countries you need a prescription for your prescription glasses if you want your health insurance to pay for them.)
These need to be washable, otherwise every time I accidentally wear them into the shower I'm going to have to buy another pair.
This is INSANE, my entire household could make imense use of theese with our shitty eyesight! I don't cary about any reviews because anything like this will be 1000x better than existing bifocals, I will be preordering 3 pairs of theese as soon as possible. I just hope they don't patent the shit out of them so there will be competitors and the prices won't be astronomical.
I want glasses with the ability to clean themselves.
A manual focus version would be cool too. I don't like the idea of having yet another thing to charge.
you'll look like the king of nerds, but that's a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable-focus_eyeglasses
Pics for the lazy
oh damn, I've never seen one in person, but I don't really care about judgment by others, so if I could get some prescription lenses on those, that'd be ideal.
eventually they'll come out with a device that charges you while you wear all of your rechargeable items. you just plug yourself into a USB outlet and all your shit gets charged simultaneously
how do we then transfer the charge from the shits to the devices?
Interesting idea. I would buy one.
Armed with fresh funding, IXI is now planning to ramp up R&D, expand its team of 50 people, and move into a new headquarters with a purpose-built lab and clean room facilities. The company plans to hold the first live demos of its glasses later this year.
But maybe I shouldn't hold my breath, yet.
I don't think I want it to be possible for someone's glasses to die or freeze
People do dangerous things that are made safer by the fact they can see—like driving
Edit: you'll need a prescription because the amount of focus it needs to do will be different for everyone and there isn't a sensor to determine your eyesight
Well, I have tried multiple sets of reading glasses at different magnification. They all work fine. So I don't think it needs to be that exact to match the person. And I would think some sort of calibration, either by manual means or plugging them into a smartphone and using an app should cover that. I doubt it corrects for things like astigmatism that are more complex.
I’d just keep a spare pair of normal glasses in the car. Anyone that has gotten to the point of needed glasses for both distance and reading likely has old pairs of glasses that can sit in a glove box. Even a slightly outdated prescription works in a pinch.
Bifocals and or swapping between distance and readers is a fucking pain. Something that solves that automatically, without a medical procedure, would be fucking amazing.
I think I'm more concerned about the unfortunate scenarios where:
Glasses fuck up meaning driver can only see near -> something that needs quick reactions happens to avoid someone dying -> driver is fumbling with glasses or trying to find a spare pair -> somebody dies
As a driver with short sight and glasses, if my glasses fall off I'm not suddenly blind - I just can't read license places or signs. Traffic lights, other cars etc are still pretty obvious.
My sister can't see the big E on the old school eye charts.
My kid barely can, as well. They're practically blind without glasses.
I also am short sighted, though possibly a bit worse than you given your description. If my glasses suddenly fell off there are plenty of hazards I would potentially miss. Idiot kid about to run into the road, etc.
Good point. Maybe these are a “home or office use only” device.
I would looove to have something like this for work or home.
Thanks but I dont want specs thatneed charging or can “crash”
I don't either but I sure would like to be able to read stuff sometimes.
Sounds great. I’m in my 40s with myopia, astigmatism, and more recently, presbyopia.
Progressive lenses don’t work for me, and needing two pairs of glasses is not ideal, even if it mostly works. Plus I can’t even just buy reading glasses off the shelf, even my short range office lenses need a prescription and are expensive as hell.
Autofocusing lenses sound like an awesome alternative.
Looking forward to when these are actually affordable, like in a few decades.
Assuming they haven't gone bankrupt by then ((:
My GUESS would be that you get a prescription for whatever your vision requires as a baseline, then the auto focus kicks in for reading.
The intention is to replace bifocals or progressives, so you'd still have your primary prescription + adjustment for reading.
I hope you are right. But I don’t have a perscription. So I would need clear by default, and only autofocusing for reading. I shouldn't need a script for that.
That was my take, and I hope we're both right. I'd kill for glasses that auto-focus as readers. I wear contacts most of the time when outside, so maybe not such a savior for me.
Because they are a medical device and there are negative medical repercussions to using glasses that don't conform to your needed prescription.
I can go buy readers when I don't need them. I've been told that using a higher power than you need is bad for you as well. And you can buy glasses online with no script. So I don't think that reason would be valid.
Interesting concept, here’s hoping. They could definitely take a bite out of the progressive market, especially for people who buy a pair of dedicated reading glasses. Comes down to how much lenses cost, how much/many options the frames come with… I suspect this will be a super niche thing, but on board for it
And prescriptions for glasses in general bug me. The only argument for requiring them and having them expire I have heard is that the wrong perscription could be dangerous while driving and such. But heck, we don't make you retake the drivers test every 2 years, and people's driving skills certainly decrease with age. So why prescriptions? Seems like another one of those good for business and not for people laws.
How do prescriptions for glasses even work on your side of the pond? I assumed it was just jargon of a sort, because round these parts I just go to a glasses seller and ask him for his strongest glasses. Then he says "no traveller, my strongest glasses are too strong for you, you can't handle my strongest glasses" and does the eye test with me before making lenses at the proper strength.
You go to an eye doctor, they do the various tests and create a prescription with the necessary details to get you the right glasses. For the next year, you can use that prescription to buy glasses anywhere you want.
I thought you got at least 2 years...
You can just go online and buy them, they don't care about "expired" prescriptions, they only need the numbers.
Sure, but I shouldn't have to. Seems like more of a reason that requiring perscriptions isn't really about anything but money.
True for glasses, illegal for contacts. It's the dumbest shit ever. I don't need a prescription for band aids, why do I need one for eye correction?
$$$
For contacts I kinda get it.
You could have eye conditions that make you unsuitable to use contacts.
For glasses, its absolute bullshit.
An "incorrect" lens placed on the exterior of your face will not harm you (other than making you a bit dizzy).
The thing is, if you're eyes are unsuitable for contacts, you'll know really quickly. I would think almost anyone that would buy contacts without an active prescription, has already tried contacts. You still have to know the numbers, so at some point there was an active prescription. I've never been to an eye doctor that didn't give free contacts samples, so there's that option too.
Can't you buy colored contacts with no correction? Seems like if you can do that, the issue with your ryes being unsuitable isn't the reason.
Valid point. Which makes it even dumber that I can't buy corrective lenses with a prescription a doctor once gave me that arbitrarily expired. It's not like eye prescriptions tend to change significantly, and if it's like other drug prescriptions, no need to worry about me growing an addiction to contacts, I'm already there.
