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5 Eyeglasses Innovations on the Horizon

After not changing much at all since the 19th century, the process of vision correction using eyeglasses has been progressing in leaps and bounds in recent years. Check out these exciting concepts, available very soon or even right now!

1. No More Reading Glasses or Bifocals

Until now, an inevitable and dreaded rite of passage into middle age has been the need for reading glasses, or even worse, bifocals. Trufocals or Superfocus glasses aim to change the need for multiple glasses and lenses by use of fluid-filled lenses behind the usual corrective lenses. The extra lens is adjustable by means of a slider on the nose piece, allowing the user to sharpen focus for different focusing distances.

When available: Now, but be prepared to pay significant money–the Superfocus glasses retail for $895.

2. Hi-definition eyeglasses

Recent computer technology allows far more customized lens making than formerly, creating a lens that is adapted not only for the overall vision correction but individually designed for the contours of your particular eye. The same wavefront computer mapping technology used to map the eye for LASIK surgery is used to create the lenses.

When available: Now, at a cost of 25 – 30% more per lens than traditional eyeglasses.

3. Inexpensive Vision Correction for the Developing World

Josh Strickland is a physicist by education, but since 1985 has worked on the problem of having too many people needing glasses in the developing world, and too few optometrists. His solution: glasses with DIY adjustment. The user simply puts on the glasses and turns a knob on each lens until he or she sees clearly. Then the adjustment is locked in using a screwdriver.

When available: About 30,000 in use in pilot programs; aim is 1 billion by 2020.

4. Night Vision Glasses

With the same thin film technology used in flat screen TVs, scientists have developed a light, inexpensive filter that can convert ultraviolet to visible light. This would be useful not only in eyeglasses but also on cell phone cameras and even car windshields.

When available: Technology exists but still in the laboratory stage.

Pros
-no need for additional LEDs
-lighter weight than LEDs


5. Glasses with OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) Technology for Data Display

How would you like to be able to access computer data, communications, maps and more in a hands free display right in front of your eyes? Students at a technical institute in Germany are working on a system to do just that. It would include an eye tracking system that would allow the user to operate menus using eye movement.

When available: In early lab development stage but looks promising.

Other Product Insporation - Night vision glasses

Night vision glasses

Most of the time, it becomes difficult for many of us to take a break from our working life and enjoy the beautiful environment of the night. But there are some that find some difficulty in night vision and believe it or not, they must be the real screwed ones to miss the peaceful exploration after the sunset. To overcome this issue, markets are already flooded with many promising products that guarantee to evade the vision problem in night. No wonder about such hopeful products, but Sanne – Marye Huijing, an Industrial design engineer, wants more exploration in such products. And so, she came up with some unique concept in the form of Night Vision glasses that will extend the horizons of sight in the dark. Night Vision glasses hold unique creativity of intellectual work by the designer.

This unique product holds its USP in its glasses and technique used for the development. The Night Vision glasseshas Phosphorescent layered design that sends out the UV light, increasing the sight vision more accurately and clearly. As UV light has high intensity, it helps out to evade the invisibility to great extent. Moreover, it also has micro lens arrays that help in concentrating the light to the eye. The glass frame which is printed in ABS has a stylish appeal attached with durability. There are two small lithium batteries of 300mAh and 3.7 V at each of the frame’s side, lending power for the UV LED (3.3 V, 20mA) light. These LED lights are situated on both sides of the glasses beside the lenses. The lenses are formed in mold type structure and are made from PMMA and vacuum.

Thus, Night Vision is a set of compound engineering that makes possible to enlighten up your sight, giving you the freedom of visibility.

Other Product Insporation - Telepathic Communication

Telepathic Communication

The Telepathy One is a finely crafted, superior quality micro-projection unit. It is designed to convey to the eyes, steady visual information in a natural and safe way. In short it is a wearable communication device that is non obtrusive and takes you beyond the use of a smartphone. The wearable device hooks up with smartphones and tablets and opens up a new dimension in communication.

Features:

• As a next generation device, it makes social communication as fast, easy, and natural as listening to music with your portable devices.
• In addition, with the device’s proprietary lower power consumption design, the user is able to wear and carry around Telepathy One everywhere.
• The Telepathy One offers user friendly and fun applications, which fit various daily usage scenarios.

Designer: the design labo Inc.

Pros

-much sleeker than google glasses

-stylish, look like a delicate piece of jewelry (people more likely to wear them?

-very sleek and lightweight

-connects to smartphone (distributes weight of technology between the two devices)

Cons

-doesnt include eye protection (sun or dust)

-doesnt correct vision for the visuallu impared (awkward to wear with spectacles?)