Electronic spectacles coming to market soon
(PhysOrg.com) -- US company PixelOptics has invented electronic spectacles that can automatically change focus as you lower your head to read a book, and could spell the end of the bifocal.
The product, called emPower!™, has been under development for 10 years and looks like an ordinary pair of spectacles. It will be available in a wide range of frames and colors. The only visible difference is a small button on the side, which is used to select one of three operating modes.
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emPower! Product and how it works
PixelOptics is inventing and commercializing the first dynamic electronic spectacle lens, emPower!™ If you wear bifocals or progressive lenses, this technology will revolutionize the way you see and use your eyeglasses. emPower!™ will:
• Focus as fast as you can blink your eye
• Provide an invisible electronic near focus zone when desired
• Offer three modes of operation: automatic, manual on, manual off
• Provide wider fields of view compared to a progressive addition lens
• Allow for less distortion than a progressive addition lens
• Vision correction for all ranges of sight: far, near, and in between
• Allow you to turn near reading power off when desired
• Rechargeable hidden battery
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PixelOptics CEO Ron Blum describes electronic eyewear -- How it works, when it will be available and why it's better for many people from athletes to the elderly.
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An emPower! battery charge will last around 30 hours. The glasses will come with a nightstand induction recharger, like the one on your electronic toothbrush.
Not surprisingly, emPower! glasses ain't cheap. A complete pair will run $1,200 at the low end, the price dependent on, as with all glasses, the frame. emPower! glasses will be available at a limited number of eyeglass retailers in the southeastern U.S. starting in April. Availability throughout the country and the world will expand over time.
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