Hey 4-Eyes... PixelOptic Electronic Focusing Eyewear

Tour2ma
Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
edited January 2011 in The Clubhouse
Check this hella-cool CES winner out...

http://www.pixeloptics.com/http://www.pixeloptics.com/
Our highly proprietary electronic lenses use a combination of chemistry, electricity and other components to create dynamic and intelligent optics for the correction of presbyopia (loss of near focus after the age of 40) and other visual disorders. These lenses focus faster than the blink of an eye and do so without moving parts.

Wearers will instantly achieve optimal vision no matter where they look – far, near, or in-between. In addition, lenses based on PixelOptics electronic technology will dramatically reduce distortion typically associated with conventional state-of-the-art bifocals and progressive addition lenses. This is accomplished by changing the index of refraction of an electro-active layer located within the lens. This technology is the first ophthalmic solution that crosses over into the consumer electronic health sector.

So much for SuperFocus...
More later,
Tour...
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,493
    edited January 2011
    Way cool!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited January 2011
    Wow, that's pretty wild!
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    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited January 2011
    I don't know I'm keeping my bi-focal lens.

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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited January 2011
    Thats really cool. Can only imagine how much for a pair.
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  • B&W802d
    B&W802d Posts: 72
    edited January 2011
    fireman32 wrote: »
    thats really cool. Can only imagine how much for a pair.

    $1200.00 a pair. I am going to get a pair for sure.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited January 2011
    B&W802d wrote: »
    $1200.00 a pair. I am going to get a pair for sure.

    Lets see,1200 clams, no reading glasses, or 10 clams and keep the reading glasses....hmmm,tough choice,but I have to go with a 10 buck pair of readers.:smile:
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited January 2011
    Im sure in a few years they will come down in price just like anything else. My eyes are getting worse and I now have progressive lenses. I am not a candidate for lasix so I am stuck with glasses.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    Saw these on a "cool items at CES" segment on CNBC's Power Lunch. I swear the person bringing them up quoted a price of $200, but the company's own press release does state an "expected retail price of approximately $1200". But that price includes "frames, lenses, coatings, charger and all electronics."

    The lenses include an LCD-like layer. The frames contain "micro-machine accelerometers" that recognize when the wearer tilts their head (as they would to read or look at a computer screen) and instantly instructs the "layer" to change shape.

    Here's the link to the full press release:
    http://www.pixeloptics.com/pages/press/PixelOptics CES 2011 Press Release.pdf

    Hey, the price is bound to come down with time... and the last pair of progressive lenses with anti-glare, anti-scratch, etc., in designer frames ran me $500+...
    More later,
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited January 2011
    Hmmm. Since I paid over $1000 to change both of my multifocals & 2 pairs of readers, I just might consider it then next time I need to change my perscription.
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