Eyecare and Eyewear News

Google Gets in Your Eyes - TechNewsWorld

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:19 GMT

Google Gets in Your Eyes
TechNewsWorld
It's possible the Google glasses will run a version of Android. They will reportedly have a front-facing camera and a flash. The camera will only have a resolution of a few megapixels. Apparently, only one lens of the Google glasses will have the ...

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Inspector Artsy - Harvard Crimson

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:23 GMT

Inspector Artsy
Harvard Crimson
Thankfully, technology has advanced enough to allow large visual correction with relatively slender lenses. Indeed, technology has advanced so far that, if I wanted to, I could chuck my glasses out the window and get laser eye surgery for as little as ...

Kelly Bostian: Brought down by a blade of grass - Tulsa World

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:41 GMT

Kelly Bostian: Brought down by a blade of grass
Tulsa World
Somehow, someway, a leaf of grass or something slipped between my face and my eyeglasses in a millisecond and put a perfectly agonizing paper cut in the cornea of my left eye directly in front of my pupil. Bulls-eye! Smack in the center.

Engle Eyewear Now Offering Concierge Eye Care, the Ultimate Pampering Service - RedOrbit

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:06 GMT

Engle Eyewear Now Offering Concierge Eye Care, the Ultimate Pampering Service
RedOrbit
Engle Eyewear in Wilkes Barre, PA is a premier eye care provider of designer eyewear, sunglasses and contact lenses. Thomas Engle, Board Certified Optician is excited to announce a new opportunity for excellence in eye care. Concierge eye care at Engle ...

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San Juan Construction Builds In Safety with Defog It Anti Fog for Safety Glasses - PR Web (press release)

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:05 GMT

PR Web (press release)

San Juan Construction Builds In Safety with Defog It Anti Fog for Safety Glasses
PR Web (press release)
Defog It is available as a liquid or reusable cloths and is safe and effective on safety glasses, goggles and faceshields. Lab tests confirm the Defog It's high performance. In one test, a lens treated with Defog It was held over constant hot steam for ...

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Frames for fashion's sake: They're out of sight - Chicago Tribune

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58 GMT

Chicago Tribune

Frames for fashion's sake: They're out of sight
Chicago Tribune
Eyeglasses have become a fashion accessory, and the geekier the better. How could this be? Had I seen this trend coming, I wouldn't have gone to such lengths to hide my eyewear as a kid. I hated those gold, wire-rimmed glasses that always sat crooked ...

Engle Eyewear Now Offering Concierge Eye Care, the Ultimate Pampering Service - PR Web (press release)

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:06 GMT

Engle Eyewear Now Offering Concierge Eye Care, the Ultimate Pampering Service
PR Web (press release)
Engle Eyewear in Wilkes Barre, PA is a premier eye care provider of designer eyewear, sunglasses and contact lenses. My wife, Renee and I love pampering our patients and our patients love us for it. Thomas Engle, Board Certified Optician is excited to ...

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Liquid glasses and a new smartphone app could bring perfect vision to the ... - Tecca

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:32 GMT

Tecca

Liquid glasses and a new smartphone app could bring perfect vision to the ...
Tecca
The solution is spectacularly innovative: A $2 scope attached to a smartphone tests for vision defects, and a new pair of adjustable glasses with liquid lenses fixes the problem. It may seem simple enough, but there's a lot more to an eye exam than ...

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Alleged details about Google HUD eyeglasses surface, public beta said to be in ... - The Verge

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:36 GMT

Alleged details about Google HUD eyeglasses surface, public beta said to be in ...
The Verge
By Bryan Bishop on February 6, 2012 05:28 pm 0Comments Word first leaked out that Google had been developing a pair of eyeglasses with an integrated heads-up display back in December, and now 9to5Google claims it has some additional information about a ...

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Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access - KUHF-FM

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:06 GMT

Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access
KUHF-FM
A man from Liberia uses a pump to adjust his liquid silicon lens. Liquid-lens glasses are part of an effort to make eyewear more accessible in the developing world. "Science helps, but I don't think there's a substitute for actually checking to see if ...

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Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access - GPB

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:01 GMT

Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access
GPB
By Larry Abramson A man from Liberia uses a pump to adjust his liquid silicon lens. Liquid-lens glasses are part of an effort to make eyewear more accessible in the developing world. For millions of people in the developing world, one thing stands ...

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Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access - WBUR

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:38 GMT

Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access
WBUR
By Larry Abramson A man from Liberia uses a pump to adjust his liquid silicon lens. Liquid-lens glasses are part of an effort to make eyewear more accessible in the developing world. (Courtesy of Centre for Vision in the Developing World) For millions ...

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Windows To The Mind

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:00 GMT

The eyes are the window into the soul - or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Measuring the diameter of the pupil, the part of the eye that changes size to let in more light, can show what a person is paying attention to...

Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Could Correct A Common Form Of Blindness

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:00 GMT

A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive cells in the eye to function...

Retinitis Pigmentosa In Dogs Cured By Gene Therapy

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:00 GMT

Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa, or XLRP, in dogs. The disease in humans and dogs is caused by defects in the RPGR gene and results in early, severe and progressive vision loss. It is one of the most common inherited forms of retinal degeneration in man...